Seller commission/payment doesn't include shipping costs

Similar problem here. I've been all evening trying to figure out how to fix it.

Using the adaptive paypal mod and trying to see how to break out individual flat rates so each seller can be paid appropriately. The cart figures it correctly, but it's not being passed to paypal to be paid by the buyer or split between sellers.

If I could just figure out even how to link back to those individual flat rates in the database, that would be awesome. Since the cart seems to lump them together, I have no clue how to intercept the numbers before they are totalled together. Any help would be awesome.

I'm really surprised that the shipping doesn't show on the seller reports (Both admin and customer side). Not to mention that you can't set the shipping to be paid to the sellers... Doesn't make sense...

Would love to see a patch that solves this...

I wonder if this is any different with the dev version?

Don't know if this is known but things work if the buyer pays by check instead of Paypal. The shipping is allocated to sellers and is worked into how much to pay sellers...

Not that this information helps solve anything but thought it may be of use. I only wish I had the skills to look at the code and sort it out...

Hixster,

That would be much appreciated.

I too have something interesting to report... I have gone to the trouble of setting up Website Payments Pro in my sandbox account at Paypal and set it up in my demo. I am happy to report that i have successful test. I tested using the Paypal payment method selected on the checkout page. Finally, I have shipping being allocated to sellers and displaying in their reports.

I also tested the option of enabling the "Paypal express checkout" option for the shopping cart page. That test failed miserably, didn't even charge shipping, much less distribute it.

I will test the credit card payment tomorrow and let you know the results. For me, Paypal's Website payment pro cost an extra £20 per month. I think for it to resolve this issue and receive the other added benefits, it could be the way to go...

That said, my site is a start up and I'd hoped to avoid the WPP cost until orders begun flowing...

First of all, the successful test reported above, was using "Paypal Express checkout" payment method but not from the cart. I went through the checkout screen and selected the "Paypal Express checkout" option...

I can now report that credit card doesn't break the distribution of shipping charges either. However the payment status gets added to admin comments, not the order comments. So therefore, it doesn't show to customers that payment has been received on their order page. I'll be looking into changing that today.

I also turned on the Website Payment Standard, for one last test, now the API credentials are entered in Ubercarts WPP setting page. The shipping once again wasn't distributed to the sellers.

@ hixster

No extra code, that i can't do :) I just play with things... For the sake of clarity, when using WPP the shipping charges gets distributed accordingly to sellers. The shipping to be paid also shows in the sellers report @ user/[uid]/selling/fulfill. The shipping is also added as you'd expect in the Admins sellers report @ admin/store/reports/seller/custom...

I have not tested actually hitting pay but don't plan to use this. I plan to send manual payments, PayPal is a little scary for my sellers...

@ hixster

My tests have been adding one item from two different sellers e.g. 2 items in cart.

I am testing my website on a subdomain like "sub.maindomain.com"

1) I have tested a purchase from multiple sellers using WPP (Website Payments Pro) and when I clicked submit order it redirected me to the main domain's maintenance page (the website on main domain is completely different website and it is indeed in maintenance mode).

2) I tested with test gateway and it included shipping costs within commissions to be paid to the sellers, but obviously test gateway is not usable in production site.

3) I enabled paypal express checkout option and it didn't even show up on the checkout page. (only options were "PayPal - pay without sharing your financial information" (I guess this is WPS) and Credit Card (and i guess this is WPP).

So I am stuck. anybody can help? I am fine with both WPP and express checkout as long as any of them just works.

UPDATE: I moved the domain from subdomain to a normal domain, disabled the maintenance mode, cleared caches from website and the browser;
yet the option 1 (WPP) still redirects me the maintenance page when i click "submit order" button, although the site is not in maintenance. any help?

UPDATE 2: I realized that Paypal Express checkout shows an extra button in the cart page and lets you checkout with paypal, but still this method did not include shipping costs in the commissions to be paid to the sellers