I am trying to develop a clover app where I would like to charge merchants on purchase of certain supplies. The app itself will be free and they will only be charged when they buy via the app. Instead of integrating a solution like stripe to charge the merchant I was wondering how I can charge the merchants via Clover. I was reading about the Ecommerce API but that seems to pay the merchant that has the app installed and not the developer. Is this use case possible and if so how?
Hello,
You want to develop a Clover app that charges merchants on the purchase of certain supplies, but you don't want to use Stripe. You're wondering if it's possible to use the Clover Ecommerce API to charge merchants as the developer, rather than the merchant that has the app installed.
It's not possible to directly bill a merchant for items purchased from your app. All merchant billing is handled by Clover via the App market.
Well, if you search this forum you will find this:
https://community.clover.com/questions/1268/can-we-integrate-our-solution-to-clover-even-if-we.htm
However, after a quick skimming of the terms, I don't see anything in there.
You probably will want to contact clover to confirm. But, honestly I would suggest using Clover's ecomm API, your app will likely face less resistance.
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