Need a way to split payments between multiple people?

PayPal Payouts Pro is a great solution for splitting payments between multiple recipients, and it’s a great alternative to PayPal Adaptive Payments which is being retired by PayPal.

Payouts is not a payment gateway that lets you take payment from shoppers at checkout. Instead it works in the background regardless of which payment gateway you use to take payments and send payouts to one or more recipients via PayPal.

Here’s how it works:

You configure the software to send payouts to anyone you want, and you can define those payout recipients either globally for all products on your site, or you can configure specific payout recipients for a specific product when editing a product.

Then, after a shopper buys something and pays for their order the software checks the order to determine if anyone needs to receive a payout. If anyone does need to receive a payout then the software can send it to them via PayPal, even if they don’t have a PayPal account yet.

The software records every payout so you can view all payouts in a list. And, you can choose whether to send payments immediately, or after some period of days have gone by, or you can do it manually (by viewing the payouts list and clicking a button to send any listed payout that hasn’t been sent yet).

Lets consider a possible real use case example:

We’ll use an example assuming that you operate an online store and you take items on a commission basis, or maybe you sell items and/or services for a variety of businesses and individuals. In either case you need to pay those people when their items or service are sold through your site. Maybe you pay each person 75% after a sale takes place. You can take payment from shoppers using any payment method you prefer, for example maybe you use a credit card payment gateway.

It works like this: You first configure the plugin’s basic settings. You then add a product to your store and during the configuration process of that product you define one or more recipients of payment by entering their PayPal email addresses into the related product field along with the percentage (or fixed amount) they should receive. Then when a shopper puts the item in the cart and goes through the checkout process and pays for their order the PayPal Payouts Pro software will automatically create a payout for each recipient with their corresponding amount based on the percentages (or fixed amount) you defined. When the payout is processed by PayPal the funds are deducted from your PayPal account and sent to the recipients.

Features

Send payouts immediately, or after a delay of some period of days, or manually.
Choose which order statuses trigger payouts
Configure payout recipients globally, or within specific products or specific product variations
Set payout amounts as a percentages or fixed amounts
Send payouts to as many as 500 hundred people all in one transaction
View a list of all payouts along with payout details including recipients, status, etc.

Requirements

To use PayPal Payouts you must have a PayPal Business or PayPal Premier account and you must get approved to use PayPal’s Payouts. Our documentation includes details on how to get the approval you need from PayPal.

Note: This extension does not require special hosting platform configuration. We mention this because most other similar solutions require that you ask your hosting company to ensure that “PHP OpCache” have its “opcache.save_comments” turned on in your hosting platform. At IgniteWoo we’ve built this extension so that there are no such requirements.

Compatibility: WooCommerce 3.0 and newer

WooCommerce PayPal Payouts Pro - Product Settings

We keep all of our software up to date with the latest versions of WooCommerce and WordPress.

If you don't see any recent changes below it's because none have become necessary!

Version 2.1.6 - May 18, 2022

	Return last_edit_gmt when querying for delayed payouts that needs processing, helps with checking delay timeout expiration

Version 2.1.5 - February 24, 2022

	Updated payment processing to increment flat amount payments by the quantity of an item purchased

Version 2.1.4 - January 19, 2022

	Updated the log() call to the WC logging function 
	
	Ensure the "value" field in the request to PayPal for each recipient has a decimal place 
	
	Trim list of recipient strings through array_map() to ensure no spaces are considered a valid string
	
	Ensure payout "item.amount.value" is cast as a string

Version 2.1.3 - April 22, 2022

	Updated scheduler action definitions for cleaning the log and checking webhooks

Version 2.1.2 - January 4, 2021

	Trim email addresses of blank spaces and CRLF

Version 2.1.1 - August 14, 2020

	New feature: Set payouts for individual variations

Version 2.1 - July 30, 2020

	Added the ability to set payout amounts as a percent OR a flat amount

Version 2.0.4 - February 4, 2020

	Added code to skip suborders (orders that have a parent_id defined) when processing payouts.

Version 2.0.3 - December 6, 2019 

	Ensure sandbox credentials are used when trying to create the endpoint URI in PayPal if settings are in sandbox mode 
	
	Ensure proper testing for https:// site prefix before attempting to create the endpoint URI

Version 2.0.2 - October 10, 2019 

	Added additional logging 
	
	Trigger endpoint check immediately when settings are saved

Version 2.0.1 - August 1, 2019 

	Adjusted check_settings() to ensure the correct live mode key setting is being checked
	
	Added debug logging for checking webhook endpoints at PayPal

Version 2.0 - January 1, 2019

	First public release
	
Version 1.0

	Private development and in-house use

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