Photo seller – Is there a way for a customer registration

[pitshop]

I understand, that the physical goods will be sent to the address which was registrated at paypal!? – I would prefer a solution where a customer has to registrate himself with his address etc. I would recommend this for the physical AND the digital goods, as I am interested in “who is using my photos” regarding the aspect of commercial use or non- commercial use.

Which brings me to the next thing I am unsure in “Photo Seller” … How can I easily differ between commercial and non-commercial prices? OK – I can build somehow a pricelist which contains the both licenses… or do You recommend another workflow?

[wzp]

There are legal issues involved. If you ship to an address other than the one listed in the PayPal transaction, you invalidate the PayPal Seller Protection Policy:

https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/security/seller-protection-learn-more

If you want to register your buyers, then you should also install the eMember plugin, and require buysers to register before being allowed to buy anything:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-membership/a-typical-member-registration-flow-96

Note however, that they will still be required to register/verify their shipping addresses with PayPal.

The problem with having commercial & non-commercial licenses is… how are you going to verify non-commercial usage, and are you prepared to spend the money “doing something about it,” if the wrong license is bought? The legal doctrine of “estoppel” says that if you’re not willing to actively enforce a contract, then it is invalid. Your mileage may vary, depending on what country you live in.

As a side note: Getty Images today, gave up on trying to collect charges for non-commercial use of over 35 million of its images, for this very reason:

[http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/06/tech/social-media/getty-free-pictures/index.html]

[pitshop]

The problem with using the same address as indicated in the paypal registration is, that often clients have a paypal address of their business, where they work, but they have a different address where they live. Just to name one reason.

Interesting approach regarding the commercial and non commercial use. I will rethink this item.

[wzp]

So, it’s not that you want customers to be registered, it’s that you want customers to be able to ship to an address not on their PayPal profile?

1. Buyers have the option of signing into PayPal and adding additional shipping addresses to their PayPal profiles. We know this may be inconvenient, but that’s the way PayPal works.
2. If we allow your buyers to ship to an address, that is not in their PayPal profile, then you forfeit any PayPal Seller Protection. We didn’t make up this rule, PayPal did.
3. Although we have no stake in whether or not, you get burned by someone who uses a stolen credit card to purchase, and then ship items to a non PayPal approved shipping address; we do care about matters concerning legal indemnity.

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