Escrow Plugin is required?

[RapidNames.com]

Hello Np'ers,

Number of individual marketplaces / website / portfolio's increased. 70% of them using wordpress.

Escrow plugin is required for them to automated escrow process? (like efty.com / bodis.com [escrow buynow form etc.,])

Currently owners get buyer email id and start the transaction in escrow.com / dn.com to complete it. Very few implemented paypal checkout.

Why there is no demand for escrow plugins?

Please share your thoughts and ideas. so Escrow company will implement their plugins for wordpress / opencart etc.,

I'm looking for an automated escrow solution for my portfolio website like many others.

Please Vote & share your thoughts !!!

Thanks.

 

[Brandworthy]

Payoneer API is much more fully-fledged than Escrow.com. Escrow still needs interaction within their site, while Payoneer uses modal windows on your site where needed, but for the most part API hooks.

My guess is it will be far easier to do this with Payoneers current API than with Escrow.com's.

 

[Domain Check]

@FPForum @internext @stub @ramkumaritrvs @Brandworthy

Thanks for bumping this thread, I'm glad this is getting revisited as there has been a lot of movement on this recently

TL/DR: I didn't make it.

During the year since my last reply I stabilized my Domain Check Wordpress plugin and began exploring features that were suggested to me during development, including this particular Escrow.com API integration. The requested feature was @ramkumaritrvs with better/automated Escrow.com BIN buttons. I focused on that as the feature goal & started the discovery process. In Q1 2017 I got in in contact with Escrow.com, joined their partner program, got my API key, reviewed their API documentation, and got a clear picture on the complexities of a Wordpress plugin that works with Woocommerce & the Escrow.com API.

Better/automated BIN buttons within Woocommerce are possible, though not proven, with the Escrow.com API. Escrow.com's outreach teams have been very responsive and receptive to customer interest in this and I've worked through the technical details with them over the phone. BIN buttons are not a standard part of their API so it actually requires misuse of some API calls to get the intended feature They're stoked on the plugin idea and have done as much as they can to help me get started

Even the starting BIN integration requires a lot of human hours, development skills beyond an amateur level, and ongoing support after release. Full checkout or landing page solutions with Woocommerce are even more intensive. It's likely the reality of these factors is why no one has successfully completed a plugin for this. Anecdotally the commitment of creating and maintaining a Wordpress plugin, paid or free, is a cost that is not profitable Plugins are a labor of love.

Escrow.com may eventually make this plugin themselves if people keep asking for it & it remains undone. It remains undone because I just don't have the time. The people I talked to at Escrow.com are hyped on this plugin idea because their customers want it, including the people in this very thread They checked in with me as recently as last week, curious to see if I had started dev, (I had not. I am a big FAIL) Contact them to let them know you want this!

I've DMed with some people on this thread about their specific feature ideas so if anyone else would like to DM me specific details about what you're be looking for in a Wordpress Woocommerce Escrow.com plugin feel free DM me.

If you are a senior software engineer with experience in APIs, PHP, Wordpress, Woocommerce, and plugin development, and you want to collaborate on this blow up my DM.

 

[FPForum]

Glad to hear they have at least kept in touch with you @Domain Check - If they could get a woocommerce plugin done it would be huge.

Knowing how big the owners of Escrow.com are (they own freelancer, WF and FreeMarket, right?) I'm very surprised they don't have a team that could have done this over the last 2 years. There has definitely been some sales lost - that's for sure. lol

 

[Brandworthy]

I think you'll find that integrating Payoneer's API offers you far more functionality. In particular they've looked at integration with multi seller marketplaces, and have web hooks for most interactions. Essentially it means you can manage your transactions entirely on your own site. Maybe I missed some details of what the escrow.com API can do, but I don't think it offers anywhere near the feature set from Payoneer.

Still, well done it you build this out. It's welcome progress in a very needed area.