NOTE: If you need help installing the plugin refer to our install guide.
Setting Up Additional PayPal Accounts
By default, orders will be processed using the account you have configured in the Express Checkout gateway settings provided by the PayPal for WooCommerce plugin. Here you will add additional account(s) with a rule that specifies when this account should be used instead of the default account.
1. Navigate to WooCommerce -> Settings
2. Click on the Multi-Account Management tab.
3. Enter details for the PayPal account you are adding.
Enable Account
PayPal Sandbox
NOTE: You will need to create a sandbox account for testing purposes if you wish to use sandbox / test mode.
Account Nickname
Example: You might call one account “Test Account” that is configured with the sandbox, and another account “Live Micro-Payment Account” for your actual PayPal account used for micro-payments.
PayPal Email
The PayPal account email address (or merchant ID) of the account that should be paid when this rule is triggered.
API Username / Password / Signature
If you would like to process refunds for transactions paid to secondary accounts, you will need to provide API credentials for the account.
You will need to populate these values with the API credentials provided by your PayPal account.
NOTE: How to Create PayPal Username, Password, Signature.
NOTE: Make sure to enter sandbox credentials if you are setting up a sandbox account, and live credentials for a live account. These would not be the same.
Site Owner Commission
If you set a commission at the rule level, it will override any value set at the global level.
The site admin account (configured in the main PayPal for WooCommerce plugin) will be paid the commission amount calculated.
Trigger Conditions
Use the drop-down boxes to create a trigger that will control when this account should be used instead of the default account configured in the PayPal Express Checkout settings for your site.
Priority
If two or more accounts have the same trigger condition or match for a particular scenario, the account with the highest priority is selected for payment.
Priority values range from 0 (Lowest) to 100 (Highest)
For Example, assume that there are two rules in PFWMA, Account1 (Priority 10) and Account2 (Priority 60) where Account1 is set to trigger for Product A and Account2 is set to trigger whenever the buyer is from the country United States. Now, suppose that the buyer is buying Product A and their country in the United States. In this case, both the accounts qualify for payments. However, the order amount will be sent to Accoun2 as it has a higher priority value.
User Role
Triggers the payment for the account whenever the Buyer is of the select role.
For Example, trigger payment to this account whenever the Buyer has the role of Wholesaler.
Select Author
Triggers the item(s) payment for the account whenever Order includes items owned by the selected Author
For Example, Direct order payments to this account whenever a product belongs to the specified Author
Commonly used with vendor plugins like WC Vendors / Dokan, and themes based on “listings” where different users own different listings.
Buyer Country
Triggers the payment for the account whenever the Buyer is from the selected country
For Example, trigger payments to this account whenever the Buyer is from the United States
Store Country
Triggers the payment for the account whenever the item’s store location matches the selected country
For Example, trigger payments to this account whenever the Buyer is from the United States
Shipping Class
Select the account for payment whenever a buyer chooses the specified shipping class
For Example, trigger payments to this account whenever a buyer chooses
Product Categories
Triggers the item(s) payment for the account whenever the Order includes products from the selected categories.
For Example, trigger payment of item (s) whenever they belong to the Accessories category.
Product Tags
Triggers the item(s) payment for the account whenever the Order includes products that consist of the selected tag(s)
For Example, direct all item(s) payments to this account whenever the item tags include “toys.”
Products
Triggers the item(s) payment for the account for all the products in the Order that match the selected products
For Example, whenever an order includes a Fountain Pen, redirect the Fountain Pen’s payment to this particular account
Transaction Amount
Triggers payment to this account for all orders whose total is equal to, greater than or lesser than the specified amount.
For Example, trigger payment to this account whenever the total is less than $50
For Example, trigger payment to this account whenever the total is higher than $50
Currency Code
Triggers the payment to this account whenever the Buyer’s currency matches one of the selected countries.
For Example, trigger payment to this account whenever the Buyer currency is Dinar.
Card Type
Available only when the Payment Gateway selected for the account is PayPal Payments Pro 2.0 (PayFlow)
Triggers payment to this account whenever the Buyer is paying with the selected card type.
For Example, trigger payment to this account whenever the Buyer pays from their American Express card.
EXAMPLE
In this example, all products that belong to angelleye would be paid directly to that account.
4. Save the account settings.
Once you have all of the details filled in for the account you are setting up, click Save Changes to save the account. You will then see the account in the list of accounts displayed below the form.
Site Admin Global Commission
As the site administrator, you can set a commission that you would like to be paid to your account.
The commission will be calculated based on the order details, and your admin account configured in the main PayPal for WooCommerce plugin will be used for the commission payment.
Any commission value set at the rule level will override the value set here.
Edit an Existing Account
Below the form on the Multi-Account Management tab you will see a list of all accounts you have added. Hover over any account in the list to reveal options for Edit and Delete.
Edit or Delete an existing account configuration.
Split Payments Information
- If more than one rule is triggered for a single order, the payment will be split between each receiver.
- For more details on this, see our tutorial for How to Split a PayPal Payment on a WooCommerce Order.
- If site owner commission is set at the global or rule level, this will be split and sent directly to the admin account configured in the main PayPal for WooCommerce plugin.
- A single order can include up to 10 receivers, with the payment split so that all accounts are paid directly.
- The site owner never touches the money.
- For questions about refunds, see the Multi-Account refund procedures documentation.
Payment Load Balancer
The Payment Balancer Mode is a special mode in PayPal for WooCommerce Multi-Account Management plugin that spreads payments across all your configured PayPal accounts.
Starting from the Primary account set in the base PayPal for WooCommerce plugin, each order’s amount will be paid to the next PayPal account in the sequence.
For Example, if you set up the primary account in PayPal for WooCommerce (Account 1) and set up three (3) secondary accounts in PayPal for WooCommerce Multi-Account Management (Account 2, Account 3, and Account 4).
The orders will be processed in the following manner:
- Order 1 will be paid to Account 1.
- Order 2 will be paid to Account 2.
- Order 3 will be paid to Account 3.
- Order 4 will be paid to Account 4.
- Order 5 will be paid to Account 1.
- Repeat…
You can also see the sequence number tag on the account listing page:
Enable Payment Load Balancer
To enable Payment Load Balancer, navigate to “WP Dashboard > WooCommerce > Settings > PayPal Multi-Account Setup”, click on the “Settings” tab and check the option “Payment Load Balancer”. After that, click on “Save Changes” to commit the changes to the database.
Things to Consider when Using Payment Load Balancer
When the Payment Load Balancer option is enabled, other plugin features such as Commission and Condition Trigger rules will not be available.
- On the Settings tab, options related to third-party plugins such as Dokan / WC Vendors, will also not be available in Payment Load Balancer mode.
If you have any existing accounts configured with custom trigger rules and commission settings, such attributes will be ignored, and the accounts will be paid as per the Payment Load Balancer sequence. More importantly, if you chose to disable Payment Load Balancer anytime, you should find that those custom attributes are still present, saving your time by not from having to reconfigure those accounts.
If you want a detailed tutorial on how to use Payment Load Balancer, check out our tutorial on How to Spread Payment Volume Across Multiple PayPal Accounts with WooCommerce.
Please plugin can use with paypal standard?
Right now it only works as an extension of our FREE PayPal for WooCommerce plugin, which uses Express Checkout. This is really recommended as it provides a lot more features and functionality than PayPal Standard provides. However, we do have plans to add PayPal Standard compatibility to this plugin. It may be a few months before we’re able to get that released, though.
Hello, I have just bought plugin. How I can change paypal account for each transaction?
Hi Duc,
You just need to configure the rules in the secondary account setup so that it will trigger when you want it to. If you having trouble, please submit a ticket to our help desk and we’ll get you taken care of. It would be great if you can provide a screenshot of the secondary account rule you are building. Thanks!
We are wanting to set up a system where users on our site with access to the backend can have their own paypal accounts set up for the products they add – can this plugin do something like that? Basically, we would just need to be able to choose the account it was charged to based on the author of the product.
Yes, it will do that, but you’ll have to configure it on your side, as the site admin. This isn’t designed as a full vendor platform where people can sign up as a vendor, create their own products, etc.
You can setup products, and then you can create rules in the admin panel so that payments are sent to different PayPal accounts based on the product, category, or a variety of other variables you can create rules with.
Let me know if you have any questions or concerns about that. Thanks!
Not sure if this was asked before…I am looking for plugin where the order amount is split after the payment is done by the user. Like if the order was placed and payment made for $100, about 5% of the amount (say commission) i.e. $5 should be directed to one Paypal account (say my account) and the rest to the Paypal account of the main vendor/ dealer etc.
The percentage of the commission can be changed with an option to setting the effective date or during the range of date periods.
Does this plugin helps me in this?
Yes, this plugin will allow you to do exactly that. You can set a global commission that would be applied to all orders. You could also set commissions for specific rules. So you could have a rule that pays 10% based on a specific product for example, and all other orders be at some global amount.
Glad to know that…can I use this plugin in multiple web sites or have to purchase it for each web site to use?
The price we have posted is a single site license. If you need this for multiple sites you can contact us here and we’ll work with you on a discounted multi-site license. Thanks!
Ok, thanks.
Hello, I’m wondering if this plugin allows you to select PayPal account based on US state, not just country? Thank you!
Not right now, but we could certainly add that. Please submit a feature request and we can get that into the queue.
Hi There, we are testing this with Dokan multivendor at the moment. We’re currently using Stripe and there’s an onboarding section in the front-end vedor’s shop setup where the vendor can connect to an existing Paypal account or create another with a redirect bringing them back to our site on completion of the form. Does this product have that function? If not is it relatively easy to set up?
Cheers,
Chris.
As it stands today, the site admin has to create rules in our Multi-Account plugin for each vendor. You can create rules based on Author ID (vendor ID) so that any product ordered will be paid directly to the vendor that owns it.
In an update coming soon (should be within just a couple of weeks) we will have seamless integration with Dokan and WC Vendors. This way rules can be created in our plugin automatically based on the Vendor PayPal setup.
Let me know if you have any questions or concerns about that. Thanks!
Hello, is this functionality implemented? Many thanks
Yes, of course. Anything documented here is currently available.
Hi!
presales question. I have a store with 2 warehouses and customer selects warehouse from which he wants the item to be shipped by ticking the checkbox, which also adds to the total amount. Depending on that checkbox is checked or not i need the payment going to one paypal account or another one. Is it possible with your plugin to implement that?
It won’t do that in its current release, but we could add that functionality for you. Please submit a feature request at our help desk and I can discuss that with you in more detail. Thanks!
Hi, the plugin allow to link the Currency to paypal account? for example: US$ paypaluser1, € paypaluser2 , GBP paypaluser3.. etc..?
Yes, there is an option to create condition triggers based on order currency.
Hi there. My problem is I want the customer to be able to choose the location they are buying from. We are a franchised music academy, so if a customer wants to buy our 2 month summer promo, I want them to be able to choose which location’s paypal account they give their money to. Any help would be appreciated.
As it stands now our plugin would allow you to create separate rules for separate products. So you could setup a page that lists these separate locations as separate products, and then configure rules in our plugin to pay separate accounts based on those products. Make sense?