Using PayPal on Sharetribe Go Open Source Marketplace

Sharetribe Go Community Edition
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Hi there,

We are thinking about adding PayPal as an additional payment gateway to our marketplace later.

We have however read that after integrating PayPal on a Sharetribe Go Open Source marketplace you will initially not be able to set a transaction fee. You will be forced to offer it for free without any marketplace fees.

If our marketplace would get all of the necessary API keys etc from PayPal, which I don’t think would be a problem, would it be possible for us to set a transaction fee with PayPal with the help of custom development or if we get some “special agreement” with PayPal to do so?

Have anyone here managed to set a transaction fee with PayPal on their Sharetribe Go Open Source marketplace?

Regards
Joachim

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The PayPal code is in the public repository and it’s fully functional, but it requires an API key from PayPal, and you can’t get that API key without a special agreement with PayPal.

You can of course set a transaction fee both with Stripe and Paypal, Sharetribe as SaaS handle both of these gateways.

The point is that setting Paypal on Sharetribe Open Source can be time consuming and on the other the great question is Do you really need Paypal on your marketplace ?

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Hello Anthony and thank you for the response,

We will contact PayPal and try to come to a special agreement.

The reason why we would like to have PayPal also is because they offer Buyer & Seller protection, which is quite important for some of our users when they are either purchasing or selling expensive items.

Regards
Joachim

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No pb sir. Its hope to you.

If you manage to set it up, send me your product link Id be curious to see the result :slight_smile:

Cheers

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Same! Would love to see the result.

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Hey, We have managed to work the paypal with the OS version of sharetribe, You can see the working of paypal here.

https://www.tourpeer.com/

Thanks

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@Mohd_Sameer In that website, have you integrated another solution from PayPal, or was the team able to get approvals and reviews from PayPal to use the same integration than Sharetribe?

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Used the same integration and code in the sharetribe repo but had to make some tweaks in the code to make it work.

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Hey Sameer - So do you mean you got approvals from PayPal to use that API integration?

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Yes, I got the keys which i wanted from PayPal

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It’s realy great that you made it work,
when you say

but had to make some tweaks in the code

What are those modifications?

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What keys did you ask for? Thanks and appreciate it!

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I think he is talking about “Reference Transactions API” which is used by Sharetribe to charge a comission, but I’m not really sure if he is talking about that api.