Another Shipping Integration Question

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Hi folks,

I have been digging through the forum, but haven’t really found an answer to what I am looking for.

In short, I am building a trading marketplace, where two users exchange items of similar value without exchanging any actual money. I want to give a ‘seller’ (for lack of a better word) the option of shipping their item at the ‘buyer’s’ expense, but I am not exactly sure how to go about this. I could either:

A) Collect money from the ‘buyer’ and pay it out to the ‘seller’ for the shipping (Stripe Connect seems like the best option here, but may be overcomplicated since neither party is paying the other for anything but shipping).
B) Facilitate the shipping myself using an app like Easypost, though that seems expensive and the plugin doesn’t have a lot of information on how to implement.

I understand this is maybe somewhat niche topic so others may not have come across this before, but just thought I’d go to the community and see if anyone had any advice.

Thanks!

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@tyleranderson099 That question would is more like the app’s policy or how this specific app handles the scenario.

I do think one simple solution could be that they can buy credit/points on the app (which you can add via Stripe) and when they do wanted to ship you can easily deduct from the buyer’s credit/points. Incase its not enough you can show them that this much is required to process this transaction.

Hope it helps :smiley:

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