PayPal

PayPal is the payment method most members already know. With Yclas you can use it two ways:

• For your extras: members pay you with PayPal for featured listings, bring to top, pay to post, membership plans and eWallet top-ups.
• For sellers: with the Buy Now button option, buyers pay sellers directly into the seller’s own PayPal account.

Members pay on PayPal’s own site, with their PayPal balance or a card, and come back to your marketplace afterwards.

Connect PayPal

1. Go to Integrations and click Paypal.
2. In Paypal account, enter the email address of your PayPal account (the one that should receive the money).
3. Click Save.

Members now see Pay with Paypal at checkout. PayPal shows as Connected on the Integrations page.

Use a PayPal Business account. It’s free, and it lets you receive card payments from people who don’t have a PayPal account.

Each payment tells PayPal where to send its confirmation, and Yclas marks the order as paid when PayPal confirms it (through PayPal’s Instant Payment Notifications). You don’t need to enter a notification address in PayPal. If orders stay unpaid after members have paid, check that Instant Payment Notifications aren’t switched off in your PayPal account settings.

PayPal settings

Setting	What it does
Paypal account	The PayPal email address that receives payments for your extras. Leave it empty to turn PayPal off.
Sandbox	Sends payments to PayPal’s test environment instead of the real one. Use it with a PayPal sandbox account to try the flow; untick it before going live.
Buy Now button	Lets buyers pay sellers through PayPal from a listing. See below.

Payments are made in your Payment Currency (Settings › Payments). PayPal only accepts certain currencies, so check yours is one of them.

Let sellers get paid through PayPal

With Buy Now button ticked, listings with a price show a Buy Now button. The buyer pays through PayPal and the money goes straight into the seller’s PayPal account. Your site doesn’t take a commission on these sales; if you want one, use Stripe Connect instead.

1. Go to Integrations › Paypal.
2. Make sure Paypal account is filled in, then tick Buy Now button.
3. Click Save.
4. Make sure the Price field is on in the posting form (Listings › Settings › Form fields).

Buyers don’t need an account on your site: a buyer who isn’t signed in can still pay with PayPal from the checkout page. Both buyer and seller get an email when the payment goes through, and the sale appears in the seller’s My Sales.

Which PayPal account the seller is paid into

Yclas picks the first of these that holds a valid email address:

1. A paypalaccount field on the listing.
2. A paypalaccount field on the seller’s profile.
3. The email address the seller signed up with.

If your sellers use a different email for PayPal than for your site, create a paypalaccount custom field for listings or a user custom field for profiles. The field name must be exactly paypalaccount. See Special-purpose fields.

If a seller’s email isn’t linked to a PayPal account, PayPal holds the money and emails the seller to claim it. Tell sellers to sign up with the same email they use for PayPal, or to fill in the PayPal field.

Stock and quantities

With stock control on, buyers can choose a quantity at checkout, and the listing is marked as sold when the stock reaches zero. Without stock control, the listing is marked as sold after the first purchase.

Related guides

• Take payments on your marketplace — the overview.
• Let members sell with Buy Now — the full selling flow, shipping and stock.
• Stripe and Stripe Connect — card payments and commissions.
• Orders and transactions — see every PayPal payment.