Seller Membership Payment Methods: Multi Vendor Marketplace for Shopify

Multi-Vendor Marketplace for Shopify has got an add-on by the name Seller Membership. This app lets the Admin create different membership plans for his sellers. Sellers can subscribe to the one they want to start selling on the admin’s store.

These membership plans can differ on prospects like:

• The number of products allowed.
• Commission by membership plan.
• Time duration as monthly, yearly or half-yearly.
• Billing grace period.
• Trial days.
• Setup fee
• Membership type as prepaid or postpaid.

So, as mentioned above, we can create two different types of seller membership plans, i.e., Prepaid & Postpaid Membership Plan. On a prepaid plan, you pay for your service upfront. On a postpaid plan, you pay at the end of the month. 

Based on the same, the Admin has to enable payment method(s) to receive subscription payments from his sellers.

In this blog, we are going to discuss the seven different payment methods regarding the same.

If you want to learn more about the Seller Membership app (installation, configuration or other settings), then visit the following link:

Multivendor Marketplace for Shopify: Seller Membership

(This blog is specifically to explain the payment methods in depth.)

Once, you enable this feature, you’ll have all the seven payment methods in the Multi-Vendor Admin Panel > Configuration > Payment Details section:

On the ‘Payment Details’ page, the Admin will have the following payment methods:

• Braintree
• Deduct From Total Earning
• Manual
• Payfast
• Payfast (recurring)
• PayPal
• PayPal (recurring)

Let’s divine into each payment method that you can enable for prepaid or postpaid plan respectively.

There are two kinds of payment methods, i.e., Recurring Payment Method & Manual Recurring Payment Method.

There are three recurring payment methods:

The admin needs to provide his account ID to process transactions for different businesses or currencies within your Braintree gateway. Similarly, the seller needs to provide his card details so that at the end of his billing period, the amount will be auto-deducted. Thus, performing a recurring payment process.

We have now introduced the PayPal prepaid payment method to make recurring payments with PayPal.

Once enabled, you need to enter the details to activate this payment method.

NOTE:-
1. Make sure you have subscription permission in the admin’s PayPal account to work Paypal recurring payment method completely ie. then only the seller will see Paypal recurring payment option while paying for the seller membership plan.

2. In case the setup fee is charged before the trial, we create charges and get redirected to create recurring charges via PayPal at the same time.

If the setup fee is charged after the trial, the seller will get straight away redirected to the dashboard.

So, If you need to charge only the setup fee before the trial, only the setup charge will be created. Else, the recurring charges will be created for the remaining charges (if any).

SELLER PANEL

Now, after the seller chooses the PayPal recurring and clicks the continue button the below window appears:

To charge the remaining amount along with the setup fee, the seller needs to click the Continue button. After that, the below window appears to create a recurring charge:

Moreover, the seller can check how much amount will be deducted and when to make the payment.

In case the seller has approved the payment but you have not yet get hit of receiving payment, the seller will see the below page:

For this, we have PayPal.

Check out the currencies supported by PayPal: Support Currencies

To activate PayPal, you just need to click on the Activate button in the Payment Detail section. Further, enter the email ID associated with your PayPal account to complete the setup.

There are three kinds of payment methods that you can enable, i.e., Offline Payment Methods, Recurring Payment Methods & Manual Recurring Payment Methods.

Similarly, to activate this method, click on activate button from the Payment Details section & provide the required details:

This method is now available for Prepaid Plans as well!

Manual Payment in Prepaid plan

You can now allow your sellers to pay the membership fee via manual payment method in the prepaid plan. To allow, you need to enable the tab from the “Membership Configuration” menu of the app.

Once you enable this option, you will have another option to select if you want to approve your seller’s manual payment automatically or not. Moreover, you can set a maximum days limit for your sellers to make manual payment i.e the Grace Period.

Case 1:- The Auto-approval option is disabled.

In this case, if the Grace Period for Manual Payment is set to 2 then, the seller needs to pay for the order within two days. If the payment is not accepted, all the products of that seller get disabled. And the seller won’t be able to access the seller panel.

Case 2:- The Auto-approval option is enabled.

In this case, if the Grace Period for Manual Payment is set to 2 then, the payment will automatically be accepted after 2 days, or you can also mark the payment as Paid before 2 days from your admin panel.

Now, as soon as the seller login to their seller panel, they can select the plan and proceed to pay via manual payment method.

The seller can simply select the manual payment and proceed to pay.

You as an admin can mark the order as paid from the “Seller Membership” section of the app.

This was the manual payment options for sellers in prepaid plans of the seller membership feature app.

To activate this, click on the activate button from the Payment Details section & you’re done. You don’t need to provide any kind of information for the following method.

This method is only available for Postpaid Plans!

There are two recurring payment methods available for Postpaid plan cases:

Enable this by clicking on the activate button and then providing all the required details regarding your Payfast account:

For postpaid plans, we have PayPal & Payfast as manual recurring payment methods.

Enable this by clicking on the activate button and then providing all the required details regarding your Payfast account:

In other words, irrespective of any signup date, billing will be generated on the 10th of each month (as you have set the billing day to 10th).

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