[Active Merchant] Split a transaction to distribute funds to two accounts?

[Chris Earle (CBL)]

Hey all,

interesting notion I've been thinking of is taking a payment and while
running through the gateway code splitting the charge into two amounts
and distributing the amount into two accounts. Has anyone ever heard
of a way to do this - like, maybe, if one of the common payment
gateways can set this up?

On the code side, I can see authorizing the payment twice with each
API key etc...

The other thing would be - any way to only produce one charge on the
customers credit card bill.

This is all magic I know -- just an idea we had to distribute funds
amongst partners right at the point of transaction


ideas / suggestions on where to look for this -- appreciated!

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[Fernando Guillen]

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Chris Earle (CBL) <cea...@cbltech.ca> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> interesting notion I've been thinking of is taking a payment and while
> running through the gateway code splitting the charge into two amounts
> and distributing the amount into two accounts.

Yes, very interesting point. I am really interested on it, but still
haven't find any solution.

I'm developing a multistore service for a very small target group and
I'm thinking in a kind of fee on any transaction like a
business-model.

There are two issues here:

1) Is possible to do this on a transparent way for the user?
2) If the fee is relatively small like 10 cents for transaction will
there be space for the Paypal fee?

I think my first approximation will be to group all the fees for every
shop owner and ask for a monthly payment.

So I don't think if the solution will be technical or functional.

Regards

f.

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[Cody Fauser]

This is what services like Amazon Flexible Payments and PayPal
Adaptive Payments were designed for.

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[Fernando Guillen]

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Cody Fauser <codyf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is what services like Amazon Flexible Payments and PayPal
> Adaptive Payments were designed for.

Indeed:

* https://www.x.com/docs/DOC-1408

Thanks Cody

f.

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[Chris Earle (CBL)]

nice one Cody --thanks alot
the Paypal Adaptive chained / parallel payment flow is interesting!
now how to implement..hehe

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On May 7, 11:18 am, Fernando Guillen <fguillen.m...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Cody Fauser <codyfau...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is what services like Amazon Flexible Payments and PayPal
> > Adaptive Payments were designed for.
>
> Indeed:
>

> *https://www.x.com/docs/DOC-1408

>
> Thanks Cody
>
> f.
>
> --
> Fernando Guillén

> Freelance Web Developerhttp://www.fernandoguillen.infohttp://spainrb.org/fernando-guillen

[Scott Windsor]

Actually...

I already have a fork of active merchant with adaptive payments built in.

http://github.com/sentientmonkey/active_merchant/commit/9f3c98f484c00d017e6507781a5207e60d692044

You can use this to use this pay multiple people like so:

   gateway.pay [1000, 'fr...@example.com'],
     [2450, 'wi...@example.com', :primary => true],
     [2000, 'bar...@example.com'],
     :sender_email => "jo...@example.com", :return_url => "http://example.com/return", :cancel_url => "http://example.com/cancel"
 

- scott