Funneling Money to Merchants

Business
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Hi all,

I am interested in setting up a service that has these merchants provide a service and buyers will buy the service. I just want to act as a way to link these the merchants and buyers, but I don’t want to deal with the money payment in anyway. But I do want to be able to post-process the payment they do so I can keep track of it.

What is the best way to do this? I was thinking of using paypal, but since I am not the merchants it would be a little more complicated as I have to redirect the buyers to the merchant paypal account. I am not too familiar with paypal process is this possible and then post-process the transaction?

If yes, can anyone redirect me to any helpful articles on how to do this?

Thanks,

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Can you give more info and a general example of the post processing you want to do.

You might be able to use a sort of “listener” script but without more info I’m not sure if it would be appropriate.

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For PayPal, look up IPN (Instant Payment Notifications). You can send the buyer to each merchant’s PayPal account, but in the same payment URL, specify your own server as the notification URL for the payment. All payment status info (pending/successful/refunded payments) will get sent to you, while the money goes to the merchant.