I have an e-commerce store that rents products for a monthly fee (subscription). These products are owned by vendors (similar to a marketplace), and these vendors receive a share of the monthly fee. Are there any precedent cases/documents that help with integrating Stripe Connect onto Shopify to pay our vendors whenever a product is rented (or a monthly fee is deduced from our renters credit card)?
Thank you!
Julian
PS: Vendors do not have individual pages on our platform: we host all their products (similar to a normal e-commerce store), and we want to pay them out immediately without receiving the funds on our bank account first.
Hi @DigitalKing - the blocker is that even if you have access to the Payment Gateways API as I do - there’s no confirmation from Shopify that you can implement a gateway that uses Stripe Connect - we don’t know if it would get approved.
Also - even if it did - besides the payment gateway something else might be required to have enough information about the order to split the payments - this would either be a private app or a custom app per merchant - or perhaps there’s some new solution supported on Shopify side that is able to do this (such as a sales channel app or something like that - but clearly this use case doesn’t fit that) → this would be something that would be a companion to the payment gateway - and it’s possible - but ony one per merchant - so it might take more effort than a regular app to install.
so - in a nutshell - without private/custom apps: no - if you find a solution do let us know:)
This requirement of an extra app - could also be waived by Shopify if they allowed us on the payment app to request other permissions besides the payment ones - but again - solution and problem is on Shopify - do talk to them - and if you get approval - do let us know
Hi @qm1 , we have a similar use case to what is being discussed here, and I was wondering if you managed to make a progress in determining a possible solution, or whether you were able to get in touch with @jantunes ?
If you want to book a call with my colleague @jantunes about this topic, read this first please
Since we wrote this in 2020, much has changed in Shopify regarding payment integrations. Due to the new way how things work (not using the old SDK anymore but through the Payments API where you need to enter into a commission contract with Shopify) - we can’t do these type of implementations any more without going against the Payment Partners TOS (section C4).
However, for the big majority of use cases, there is another solution which should suffice (google: “Multi Vendor Marketplace for Shopify: Stripe Connect Integration”). I can’t add a link to it, because for some reason some keyword in it has been banned. Haven’t fully vet them, so make sure you do before using their services.
