Question about brokerage type websites...

[cants]

Hi guys, my first fastlane website is almost complete, I can say that it's around 70% done, I'm just stuck with one functionality.. The payment stuff

I'm developing a website where users can sell their things online and buyers can order it directly from the site. Now my problem is that I don't know what function/service to add to enable the buyers to pay the sellers before shipping out the product, and how to charge the seller some percentage of the total price for every successful transaction that they make on my website... Kinda like odesk or ebay..

Would greatly appreciate your advice.. Thanks...

 

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[brob742]

Hi guys, my first fastlane website is almost complete, I can say that it's around 70% done, I'm just stuck with one functionality.. The payment stuff

I'm developing a website where users can sell their things online and buyers can order it directly from the site. Now my problem is that I don't know what function/service to add to enable the buyers to pay the sellers before shipping out the product, and how to charge the seller some percentage of the total price for every successful transaction that they make on my website... Kinda like odesk or ebay..

Would greatly appreciate your advice.. Thanks...

That seems like quite an important piece of the puzzle not to figure out before jumping into starting the business. It's how you make money. I would research odesk, elance, etc on their business model and see how they setup their brokerage model and percentage.