Developer's Guide

Adaptive Payments Developer Guide August 7, 2012 61
Introducing Adaptive Payments
Fee Payment Configuration
primary receiver in a chained payment pays the entire fee or whether all receivers pay a
portion of the fee.
You can specify who pays these fees. Fee payment configurations include:
 Sender Pays the Fee
 Receiver Pays the Fee in a Parallel Payment
 Each Receiver Pays the Fee in a Chained Payment
 Primary Receiver Pays the Fee in a Chained Payment
NOTE: Fees are determined by PayPal and are based on criteria, such as the transaction
volume of the receiver. In the examples that follow, the fees shown are representative
only and not actual fees.
Sender Pays the Fee
The sender can pay a fee for a simple payment, parallel payment, or a chained payment. The
following example shows fees being paid by the sender of a parallel payment, based on the
assessment for each receiver:
In this example, the sender pays a total of $510.83, which includes all fees.