{"id":2273,"date":"2016-08-18T09:02:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T15:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=2273"},"modified":"2018-01-12T07:12:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T13:12:01","slug":"the-single-biggest-obstacle-to-running-self-hosted-sharetribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2273","title":{"rendered":"The single biggest obstacle to running self hosted Sharetribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2275 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/dollar-1362244_640-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"dollar-1362244_640\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/edit.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/dollar-1362244_640-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/edit.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/dollar-1362244_640.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>So, you checked out <a href=\"\/wordpress\/archives\/2257\">Can I customize Sharetribe?<\/a> and determined you need a backend programmer? And that you&#8217;re going to self host, whether on <a href=\"\/wordpress\/archives\/2255\">Heroku<\/a> or elsewhere? That&#8217;s great!<\/p>\n<p>Let me let you in on the single biggest obstacle to running Sharetribe self hosted. (It&#8217;s not the biggest obstacle to building a successful marketplace&#8211;that is building the community and getting liquidity&#8211;but it is a big one.)<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no great option for taking payments on self hosted Sharetribe.<\/p>\n<p>Braintree has limitations and can only support companies in the USA (I believe).<\/p>\n<p>Paypal isn&#8217;t supported with the open source version.<\/p>\n<p>No other payment processors are supported &#8216;out of the box&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you are charging nothing for your marketplace, or if you monetize your site in some other way such as a listing fee or using the marketplace as a captive market, you&#8217;re fine with the self hosted version.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise you are going to have to pay a developer to integrate with a payment processor. Here is what to think about when you are evaluating payment processors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do they support the currency I need to support? (Sharetribe only supports one currency per marketplace at this time).<\/li>\n<li>Do they handle splitting payments?\u00a0 That is, if someone pays $100, and the marketplace commission is 10%, $10 goes to the marketplace and $90 to the seller.\u00a0 How is that handled&#8211;many payment processors don&#8217;t support splitting payments in the manner.\n<ul>\n<li>If you aren&#8217;t splitting payments, how are you going to get your money and make sure the seller gets theirs?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>If I need payment escrow, do they support that?<\/li>\n<li>Are there legal ramifications (taxes, fees, etc) that my marketplace has to handle with regards to taking money?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth looking at these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/sharetribe\/sharetribe\/issues\/1657\">Which payment provider do you use?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharetribe.com\/community\/t\/paypal-payment-open-source\/131\">Paypal open source<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharetribe.com\/community\/t\/how-hard-and-secure-to-add-a-new-payement-company\/128\">How to add a new payment company?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And if you are interested in having Stripe connect in your system, I&#8217;m working on such an integration.\u00a0 Please sign up for <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/caicLf\">the list to be notified when it is ready to go<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, you checked out Can I customize Sharetribe? and determined you need a backend programmer? And that you&#8217;re going to self host, whether on Heroku or elsewhere? That&#8217;s great! 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