Take payments on your marketplace

Your marketplace can charge members for extras and let sellers take money for what they sell. Money always goes straight to your own account with the payment provider (or to the seller’s, for sales), never through Yclas.

This guide gives you the big picture: what you can charge for, where each setting lives, and how to test it all before real money moves.

What members can pay for

There are two kinds of payment, and they use different payment methods.

Payments to you, the site owner. These are the extras you sell:

What	Where you set it up
Featured listings	Settings › Payments › Featured listings
Bring to top	Settings › Payments › Bring to top
Pay to post in some or all categories	Settings › Payments › Pay to post, with a price on each category
Membership plans	Addons › Subscriptions / Memberships
eWallet top-ups	Addons › eWallet

Members pay for these with any payment method you connect: card through Stripe, PayPal, one of the other gateways, or a bank transfer or cash that you confirm by hand.

Payments to sellers. When you let members sell with a Buy Now button, the buyer pays the seller. Only three methods can do that, because the money has to reach each seller’s own account:

• Stripe Connect, which also lets you take a commission on every sale.
• PayPal, paid straight to the seller’s PayPal account.
• Escrow.com, which holds the money until the buyer has received the item.

Set up payments

1. Go to Integrations and connect at least one payment provider. Most sites use Stripe, PayPal or both.
2. Go to Settings › Payments and choose your Payment Currency. It must be a currency your payment provider accepts.
3. On the same page, switch on what you want to sell: Featured listings, Bring to top or Pay to post.
4. Click Save changes.
5. Test a purchase yourself (see below) before you tell your members.

The Payment methods section at the top of Settings › Payments links to the Integrations page, so you can move between the two.

Settings › Payments at a glance

Setting	What it does
Payment Currency	The currency of everything members pay you: featured listings, bring to top, pay to post, plans and eWallet top-ups. See Currency and price format.
Alternative Payment	Shows an extra button at checkout that opens one of your pages, for example bank transfer instructions. See Bank transfer and cash.
Charge for posting	Turns pay to post on, with or without moderation.
Stock Control	Lets sellers set a quantity; the listing sells out at zero. See Stock control.
Sell featured listings	Lets members pay to feature a listing, using the featured plans you create.
Bring To Top Listing and To Top Price	Lets members pay to bump a listing back to the top.
VAT Country, VAT Number, VAT Rate Only for Non-EU Countries	Adds VAT to what members pay you. See VAT and taxes.

The Orders button at the top of the page opens Orders, where every payment is listed.

What members see at checkout

When a member buys something, Yclas creates an order and sends them to a checkout page. It shows what they are paying for, the price, any VAT and coupon, and one button for each payment method you have connected. Once the payment goes through, the order is marked as paid and the extra is applied straight away: the listing is featured, published or moved to the top.

Connect a payment method before you switch anything on: without one, members reach the checkout but have no way to pay. If the price is zero (for example after a 100% coupon), members see Click to proceed instead and no payment is taken.

As an administrator or moderator you also see Mark as paid on checkout pages for your own extras. It confirms the order without taking money, which is handy for cash payments and for testing.

Test before you go live

Every payment integration has a test mode, so you can try the whole flow without real money:

• Stripe: enter your test keys (they start with pk_test_ and sk_test_) and pay with Stripe’s test card 4242 4242 4242 4242, any future date and any CVC. Swap in your live keys when you are done.
• PayPal: tick Sandbox and use a PayPal sandbox account.
• Other gateways: most have a Sandbox box on their integration page.

Then, signed in as an ordinary member (not your admin account), feature a listing or post in a paid category and pay. Check that the order shows as Paid in Orders and that the listing changed.

Remember to switch test mode off. In test mode no real money is taken, but members’ orders are still marked as paid.

Related guides

• Stripe — card payments and commissions on sales.
• PayPal — PayPal for your extras and for sellers.
• Featured listings and bring to top — the most common thing to sell.
• Orders and transactions — see and manage every payment.
• Ways to make money from your marketplace — ideas for pricing.