To receive payments from their listings, sellers need to connect their PayPal account and grant the marketplace certain permissions.

To accept payments, sellers need to give Sharetribe and your marketplace certain permissions to make the transaction process work. They are needed for two purposes:

Permissions are only needed from sellers, not buyers.

There are six specific permissions.

Express Checkout
This is the payment system that Sharetribe uses to process transactions. It allows buyers to buy without a PayPal account, only using a credit card.

Refund
In case of a situation where the buyer of the product or service needs a refund, this will be a possibility. Giving refunds is not directly possible from the marketplace, and the user needs to log in on their PayPal account to issue a refund. You can find out more about the refund process here.

Authorize and capture PayPal transactions
The user initiates the transactions that take place on the marketplace. However, there is an additional transaction for the commission fee that is not manually initiated by the user but rather by our system. This is the feature that allows marketplace owners to collect a fee from the sales on the marketplace. Additionally, the transactions are captured and stored in the Admin panel. The administrators of the marketplace can keep an overview of the transactions that take place on the marketplace. 

Obtain information about a single transaction 

Sometimes, there can be a problem with single transactions. Unfortunately, we cannot solve all problems, but by getting some basic information about the transactions, we can do some troubleshooting of potential payment problems without involving PayPal support. Additionally, information about the various individual transactions is stored in the Admin panel's transaction overview. You will be able to see when the status of the transaction is updated, so you will know which transactions completed successfully and which did not. Additionally, having this information is necessary for the marketplace platform so that it knows once a transaction has been completed successfully. 

Charge an existing customer based on a prior transaction 

Again, we allow marketplace administrators to charge a commission based on a transaction that has taken place on the marketplace. This is a second transaction that takes place after the first one is successful.

Access PayPal contact information
This is needed to let the marketplace know which PayPal account is being used for the marketplace.

At this point, granting these permissions is the only way to be able to accept payments from Sharetribe transactions.

No, these permissions only need to be granted by sellers.

Yes, a seller can revoke the permissions using PayPal account management at any time. If this is done, they will no longer be able to accept payments from Sharetribe transactions.