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29th March 2011 (1 year ago)
Hi... guidance please...
I am considering the Membership or Pay to Blog plugins...
PayPal's fees for sellers are
1.9% to 2.9% + $0.30 USD
to get paid.
If I collect a listing fee of 20 cents per transaction I still owe PayPal 30 cents + per transaction.
How do companies who use your software charge a 20 cent listing fee if they lose $ per transaction? Are they holding off on charging fees until the end of the month to count as only 1 transaction? If so, can Membership or Pay to blog do this.. automate fee collection at month end based on total posts for the month, and not upfront?
I am considering the Membership or Pay to Blog plugins...
PayPal's fees for sellers are
1.9% to 2.9% + $0.30 USD
to get paid.
If I collect a listing fee of 20 cents per transaction I still owe PayPal 30 cents + per transaction.
How do companies who use your software charge a 20 cent listing fee if they lose $ per transaction? Are they holding off on charging fees until the end of the month to count as only 1 transaction? If so, can Membership or Pay to blog do this.. automate fee collection at month end based on total posts for the month, and not upfront?
I don't see a possibility of using the plugins to hold off on fee collection until the month's end but I imagine that all the PayPal and various other operating fees would be calculated into the price, no?
I imagine those companies have a special partnership with PayPal (eBay of course!) or perhaps have other ways of offsetting the costs. Maybe others around here might have ideas on how to effectively charge for those services under such circumstances though?
Responses (4)
WPMU DEV Fanatic — 29th March 2011 (1 year ago) #
Hello sdominique,
I don't see a possibility of using the plugins to hold off on fee collection until the month's end but I imagine that all the PayPal and various other operating fees would be calculated into the price, no?
Cheers,
David
Member — 29th March 2011 (1 year ago) #
Etsy does not build it in to the price, they only charge .20. The listing income is below PayPal costs...
Ditto eBay (.10) and Folksy (.20).
WPMU DEV Fanatic — 1st April 2011 (1 year ago) #
Hi sdominique,
I imagine those companies have a special partnership with PayPal (eBay of course!) or perhaps have other ways of offsetting the costs. Maybe others around here might have ideas on how to effectively charge for those services under such circumstances though?
Member — 4th April 2011 (1 year ago) #
I found the answer to the lower fees.. https://micropayments.paypal-labs.com/
The problem is that of of Nov 2010 there was no pay per post plugin.... http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/pay-per-post
Please let me know if this changed... thx
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