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Okay, I have two types of site visitor; 1 is the buyer and 1 is the supplier.
What I'm looking at is creating a site where "suppliers" can sell their services to "buyers".
What I would then like is for the supplier to create an email invoice that he would send to the buyer. The buyer then clicks on a link to pay for their services. The buyer then receives confirmation of payment and I receive confirmation that payment has been made. They may also need to take a 50% deposit and then the final payment made on completion of the service.
Each supplier would have a username so I can keep track of all this in the DB.
The money would then come to me and a percentage would then get paid to the supplier (or payment it made to the supplier and a percentage is paid to me)
Does this sound possible with any of the shopping cart/payment service providers out there?
Thanks in advance for any help on the matter.
You can't take payment of behalf suppliers but you could enable suppliers to take payment through your app.
Hopefully this'll make sense.
The payment issue sounds like it's going to cause the most problems. I doubt you would be able to get a merchant account to accept credit cards with that business model. And PayPal would probably have problems with it as well. More likely you'll need to be like eBay and have the customers pay the sellers directly and have the sellers pay you a cut.
