paypal checkouts for marketplace

Question

I would really like to use Paypal for my marketplace I am developing. I need to allow users to enter their paypal email address and whenever customers purchase that users products I take a small fee then the rest of the money goes to the user who listed the product.

What paypal service is the best for these types of payments? (me taking a transaction fee and sending the rest of the money to another paypal account)

I was looking into paypal express checkout, but can't find any info on sending some payouts to the users listing products. Also does express checkout require that the customer have a paypal account?

Answer 1

In case you are wondering and finding an answer, Express Checkout now comes with Parallel Payments. Read it here. As Adaptive Payment Parallel Payment now deprecated, the option left is using Express Checkout.

Answer 2

I have been trying to get a sensible answer from PayPal for days now. They are planning to release a protocol to support a market place in 2020 but not date yet. They have also confirmed (after talking to sales & tech support) that PayPal cannot be used for market places where your platform is nothing more than a broker.

Stripe Connect (Standard account) is probably the best solution out there.