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Multi-vendor paypal

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  1. taiden
    Member

    Hi there,

    I am part of a WordPress based website that has three different vendors on it. Each of us have a small handful of products, but almost all of the products have multiple variations that dictate the price. Normally we would use PayPal's Buy Now button system, but that doesn't allow for the variations we require.

    We need a very simple Q&A form that will tally up the price as is appropriate and then direct our customer to PayPal's pay now site.

    Is this a possibility? How does Gravity Forms help us with this?

    And finally, do you offer any kind of trial period?

    Posted 12 years ago on Monday July 30, 2012 | Permalink

  2. David Peralty

    Gravity Forms doesn't have a shopping cart to add items to, so if you wanted to buy products from different vendors in one order, Gravity Forms would probably not be the solution you are looking for. You can have a single form with the products and options on it, and have people purchase through this form though.

    Gravity Forms has fields for products and options that can be customized to meet the needs of purchasing a product. We also have add-ons for Paypal and Authorize.net for payment processing. Our Entries system allows exporting of entries so the data can be manipulated or potentially imported into an order tracking system.

    As for a trial period, Gravity Forms does not provide one as it is a digital download product. You can access our full documentation to see if we have the hooks, add-ons and information needed to provide you with the confidence to purchase.

    Hope my answers help.

    Posted 12 years ago on Monday July 30, 2012 | Permalink

  3. taiden
    Member

    David, thanks for the clear answer.

    We actually do not need a single cart. Shipping is free on all products, and most customers only buy one thing at a time over a period of weeks or months. So we have no qualms with not having a cart.

    PayPal's buy now forms work great except for the inability to do matrix style pricing with multiple sets of variations.

    If gravity forms can add up the sum price of the variations and somehow post them to PayPal's buy now functionality, I think Gravity Forms could be a winner.

    Does that clear things up?

    All the best,
    Luke

    Posted 12 years ago on Tuesday July 31, 2012 | Permalink

  4. David Peralty

    Yes it does. You could have a single page with all kinds of products and multiple options on each product, like building pizzas with different toppings to come up with a final price. If you give more information on what exactly you want to do with the limitations, expectations and more, I can give you an even clearer idea how easy or difficult it will be.

    Posted 12 years ago on Tuesday July 31, 2012 | Permalink

  5. taiden
    Member

    Here's a screenshot of our pricing structure for a product. As you can see it's multidimensional and the number of possible variations is 270 minimum, ignoring the fact that the length can be any number.

    http://i45.tinypic.com/30le4hf.png

    Posted 12 years ago on Tuesday July 31, 2012 | Permalink

  6. David Peralty

    This is definitely possible in Gravity Forms using our product and options fields.

    Posted 12 years ago on Tuesday July 31, 2012 | Permalink

  7. taiden
    Member

    Awesome. Just two more questions I can think of.

    Each PayPal form can have a different PayPal account tied to it?

    Does Gravity Forms post the pricing to PayPal through the client's browser, or does Gravity Forms create an Express Checkout token server side and pass that to the client?

    Posted 12 years ago on Tuesday July 31, 2012 | Permalink

  8. David Peralty

    I hadn't tried that before, so I just did. It looks like you have to use one IPN (Instant Payment Notification) address, but you can set a Paypal payment e-mail for each form. So you should be able to set each form to pay a different Paypal account. Depending on which Add-on you use, Paypal either sends the client to Paypal to pay or keeps them on page to pay. We use Paypal Website Payments and Paypal Website Payments Pro for our two add-ons.

    Posted 12 years ago on Tuesday July 31, 2012 | Permalink