Implementing a mandatory payment method was done to enable buyers to be able to purchase from multiple merchants in a single transaction, yet still enable automatic split payments between the marketplace admin and the different merchants. This multi-merchant shopping cart experience can only occur if all merchants are on the same payment gateway.
Consider the scenario below:
Buyer X purchases 2 items: one from Merchant A, and another from Merchant B. Without a mandatory payment method, Merchant A opts for PayPal, while Merchant B opts for Stripe as their his chosen payment gateway.
Now, when Buyer X wants to check out with both items in their cart, they are unable to automatically pay both merchants with their PayPal account. Instead, they would be required to checkout each merchant items separately, one merchant at a time, which is an extremely poor user experience.
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Why not offer the option to activate it if you want and not activate it if you do not want to? Can I ONLY have cash on delivery as the only payment option?
My sellers are very small companies, they do not have all the setups for online payments. I have put together a website on another platform that has this feature, but I would like to move to Arcadier if only you had this option... :(
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