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Marketpress settings earn percentage of sales

Where are the settings that allow me to earn a percentage of all sales made by users or new sites on my multisite marketpress?

Thanks

Cheri Faline

Thu, 1 Aug 2013 15:06:49
  • Alexander
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Hi @Cheri,

    Just go to the MarketPress settings in your network dashboard. Under payments, you’ll need to enable the PayPal chained payments gateway. Then you’ll be able to set the commission percentage.

    We have a video explaining some of the processes involved in all this. Here’s a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QMaf5FDrWg&list=UULgqhMisF-ykzHZzuMEfV4Q&index=36

    Hoepfully that helps get you started, and just let me know if there’s anything else here I can assist with.

    Best regards

  • Cheri
    • Site Builder, Child of Zeus

    Thanks so very much,

    I am having trouble getting my paypal express to work and would like someone to view my site admin. Could someone send me a link to request this?

    I have exhausted all efforts to get the paypal working.

    I need help!

    Thanks

    Cheri

  • Alexander
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Hi Cheri,

    I believe your issue was having PayPal Express selected as the payment gateway. To accept commisions, you'll need to use the PayPal chained payments gateway instead. I've changed this over.

    From your network dashboard under "Settings -> MarketPress" you'll now have a "Fees To Collect" setting under the PayPal chained payment settings panel. All your API credentials are still there because you can switch PayPal gateways without needing to change them.

    There's also a message you can configure to show your site admins.

    I didn't see anything else that looked wrong. If you have any other issues, just let me know.

    Best regards

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  • Cheri
    • Site Builder, Child of Zeus

    I really appreciate you taking a look:

    I have decided to use express paypal and forego any fees from other site owners products until I can resolve the problems with paypal chained api’s.

    Now I have added back ProSites using express payments and when you arrive at the page to choose a package nothing happens when you select on of 3 packages.

    I have starter package at the beginning package, should I have maybe something like a free package too?

    It seems every place I try to earn revenue there is a snag!

    Please help me fix at the ProSites feature.

    Thanks

    Cheri

  • Cheri
    • Site Builder, Child of Zeus

    Not that I know of,

    BTW

    I think I may have chained payments working. I have been on the phone with paypal.

    Could we work on the ProSites problem first?

    The problem when you go to upgrade and it just takes you back to the upgrade page?

    Please take a look at the prosites problem first.

    Thanks

    Cheri

  • Alexander
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Please take a look at the prosites problem first.

    I’ll need to be able to register a new user account before I can test this effectively. MarketPress relies heavily on emails for order notifications, and it’s required to get accounts setup. We’ll need to figure this out before we can troubleshoot Pro Sites

    Right now it’s setup so logged in users can create a site. This is ok – I tried creating a user from the backend, but don’t receive an activation email.

    Since this site was setup, have you received any emails from it? There could be a problem with phpMail. I could look into this for you if you let me know who your webhost is – or you may end up needing to get in touch with them. Alternatively, we could setup email to go out via an SMTP plugin,

    Best regards

  • Cheri
    • Site Builder, Child of Zeus

    Hi there,

    You should be able to create a user account now. I have it set up that you register

    and then are offered the option to create a new site on the dashboard.

    I have set up several and am receiving both the confirmation email and then the password email.

    Are you going to go to the Network Admin Panel with the login details I emailed you?

    If so then just use the WPMU Dev dashb and reinstall ProSites.

    It will auto generate as I have tried several times and do fine until I try to buy one of the packages.

    Thanks for getting back to me,

    I will watch for more here from you.

    Cheri Faline

    sdmerchants.com

  • Alexander
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Haha no problem! I was wondering what happened as I thought I had created one… Good to know that it's not your site having a mind of it's own lol.

    I've repaired the Pro Sites billing page. Pro Sites will automatically create a page called "Pro Site" with a url /pro-site for the main site. I saw it had been deleted. This page is needed to handle billing.

    You can change the page name though. Just delete the page, then change the "Rebrand Pro Sites" option in Pro Sites settings. It will use that text to create the page and URL.

    I can confirm I'm also seeing that the PayPal button doesn't do anything but reload the page. I'm not sure what's causing this, but there is something else we'll need to fix first.

    This might be related to the Free level you've created. Pro Sites actually doesn't support multiple Free levels. It has one built in already that you should use. If a client creates a site, they are automatically on that free level. So you don't need to create one.

    You will need to remove that free level – or rather remove your second level, rename the existing free one and apply pricing.

    Anything under "Pro Levels" should require a payment, and that's where you start unlocking additional features.

    See the attached screenshot. You will also need to disable the "Pay to Blog module" to support free levels.

    Best regards

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  • Cheri
    • Site Builder, Child of Zeus

    Regarding PayPal check out on Prosites.

    I noticed in the Marketpress Gateway there are options that are specific for

    ProSites

    I also wonder if I should also enable PayExpress as a payment option but worried

    that it would interfere with the Network % earnings on the chained payments.

    I think there is something in the setting here on the Marketpress Payments that may be affecting the checkout page for ProSites.

    Thanks

    Cheri

  • Cheri
    • Site Builder, Child of Zeus

    Hi there,

    I have added many premium themes to my ProSites and am wondering if I put the price of 0.00 in the 30 days section of each level is that the same as a 30 day free trial?

    I want them to be able to preview exactly what they receive with each level. Is there another way to do this?

    Also checkout is still not working and I really hope this can be fixed soon as I need to launch this site. There must be some kind of glitch because it is not sending them to the checkout only back to original page.

    Please try to help me resolve these issues so I can launch my site this week.

    Thank you for any and all help.

    Cheri Faline

  • Alexander
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Hi Cheri,

    I’ve taken a look at your settings, and the free trial looks right. I’m still trying to figure out what’s going on with your Pro Sites checkout.

    With your Stripe setup, all the testing cards I’ve tried are coming back as declined.

    Can you please enable debug mode? This can be done by opening your wp-config.php file and changing

    define('WP_DEBUG', false);

    to

    define('WP_DEBUG', true);

    I think there might be an error message that could point us in the right direction.

    Best regards

  • Alexander
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    HI again @Cheri,

    I’m may need to bring this to the attention of our lead developer. I can’t seem to figure out what is going wrong here. I have one last idea though.

    Can you please just double check and confirm that the API information you’re using for stripe is correct? In your stripe account, you should have a set of test keys, and a set of live keys. Could you just confirm that you’ve inputted the test keys in the site?

    Then with PayPal: I didn’t see this the first time as the text box is only so big – but at a closer look I noticed that your api username had gmail in it twice like: .gmail.com.gmail.com Could you verify that the settings you were using from PayPal were correct as well?

    Thanks!

  • Cheri
    • Site Builder, Child of Zeus

    Hi there,

    Stripe was setup correctly using what they gave me

    I did remove that second gmail.com never saw that myself,

    I’ll bet that wasn’t helping things!

    getting some weird errors now

    above the entire dashboard.

    Let me know what is next.

    I don’t want to do anything while you are working on it.

    Thanks so much

    Cheri

  • Cheri
    • Site Builder, Child of Zeus

    Update:

    I ran a test on Stripe payment and it was accepted. There was some tax id info that may have caused the problem. I have reactivated Stripe for ProSite payments and

    have changed back the config to False for bugs.

    I need to move forward and launch this site.

    As long as I can get paid I am happy!

    If you need to work further on the site please advise me that you are going to do so.

    I am going to mark as resolved and launch site as it is.

    Thank you for your efforts.

    Cheri Faline

  • Cheri
    • Site Builder, Child of Zeus

    Update:

    I ran a test on Stripe payment and it was accepted. There was some tax id info that may have caused the problem. I have reactivated Stripe for ProSite payments and

    have changed back the config to False for bugs.

    I need to move forward and launch this site.

    As long as I can get paid I am happy!

    If you need to work further on the site please advise me that you are going to do so.

    I am going to mark as resolved and launch site as it is.

    Thank you for your efforts.

    Cheri Faline