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I am building a site that will pay members for referrals. I am using Wordpress and I am convinced that everything will work well up to the point where I need to pay a current member who refers a new member. Paypal Express Checkout seems like the best option for parallel payments. I am willing to pay someone to help.

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  • EC is for receiving payments. If you are making payments you should look at Mass Pay or Payouts – geewiz Aug 11 '15 at 15:06
  • I am afraid you misunderstood my question/problem.....new members will be paying for my content and I want to divide that payment between myself and the existing member who referred the new member. – Inventor217 Aug 11 '15 at 18:51
  • I am the developer of [PayPal for WooCommerce](https://wordpress.org/plugins/paypal-for-woocommerce/). I can do this for you. The procedure would be exactly what @PayPal_MSI_Tiffany outlined. Keep in mind that a parallel payment will show the split to the buyer during checkout. If you want to hide the split so the buyer only sees a single "seller" then you'll need to do a Chained payment, which would require Adaptive Payments API instead of Express Checkout. – Drew Angell Aug 12 '15 at 01:32

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The following link shows how to make parallel payments with Express Checkout: https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/express-checkout/ht_ec-parallelPayments/

It says while parallel payments follow the normal Express Checkout flow, they differ in the following ways:

  • The SetExpressCheckout request includes different items offered by multiple merchants.
  • The SetExpressCheckout request contains primary information, as well as optional secondary information that adds detail to the items being purchased.
  • To capture the payment, your DoExpressCheckoutPayment request must itemize the different merchants and payment amounts.
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