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Integration for marketplace - app marketplace fees?

What is the correct way of building a "man-in-the-middle"/marketplace sort of integration where we only request access to other merchants using oauth2 flow to perform charges on those merchants' behalf?


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We are building a SaaS that allows coaches to manage their coaching business including taking payments from their clients.


We want to add Clover so coaches can connect their Clover merchant account to our platform using oauth2 flow so our platform can manage payments and charge their clients on the coache's behalf.


So I've created an account in clover and created an oauth2 app, but it seems like Clover treats that account as merchant and when I'm trying to access App Marketplace it asks to authorise billing in amount of "$5.00 per month, $29.95 per month per device" which is confusing.


When integrating other payment services like stripe or payapl we never encountered any fees in order to be a "man-in-the-middle" between a merchant and the end client.


We are not looking to do any "merchant" activity, ie charge people using our account, but only to do charges directly to 3rd party merchant accounts who authorised that.


So what is the correct way to build such a marketplace flow? Do we need to pay for that and if yes, what is the exact pricing? Is it for each merchant who connects to our platform?



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Richelle Herrli answered

It sounds like you're interested in building what we call a semi-integration with Clover. You should check out our documentation for REST Pay Display API to find how to make calls that will allow the merchant to process payments with a Clover Mini or Flex.


In order to develop an app on Clover Platform, you will want to create a Clover Developer Account on our Sandbox environment. Once there, you can create a test merchant under that account for testing your app without worrying about SaaS or payment processing fees.

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