Collecting a fee from a Paypal Payment

Hmm,

How would charging people to join impact it?  What would I charge if what is $1 per transaction or per month?

>How would charging people to join impact it?

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Interesting.  So I could do an Adaptive and Chained Payment through Paypal so that the end user needed only to use a Paypal account?

With that scenario the sender could pay using a PayPal account or a credit card (which PayPal calls guest checkout.)  The receiver(s) would need a PayPal account.

If you use https://www.dwolla.com/ there is no transaction fee under $10.  But the way this works is the person paying has to have a dwolla account.  So there would be a little pain point. Part of signing up is attaching the account to our bank account and that may take a couple of days for the verification.

You can write your own web/mobile app and collect whatever you want.  Their fee is 25 cents flat for anything over $10.    

Good luck!

Thanks for all the suggestions.  I think I will stick with Paypal because that's a name that people are most likely to trust.

Angeleye,
Can you walk me through a scenario where I would get part of the transaction and the end user would not know and still see nothing but Paypal?

You can disable the credit card option for people by making sure the "PayPal Account Optional" option is disabled in your PayPal account profile.  That said, I've never specifically tested how it would work if you had 3 receivers, for example, and only one of you had that option disabled.  Would need to test that in the sandbox to see how it reacts.  There's nothing wrong with it, though.  The payment still comes to you just like any PayPal payment would.  It just gives payers that extra option in case they don't have a PayPal account.

Then you'd setup a chained payment via the Pay API with up to 5 receivers included on the transaction.  I see you're using PHP.  I've got a class library for PayPal that would make this call very simple for you.

I tried to watch the class library on your video which is necessary because I am unclear on how to proceed.