Payment Cycle
Other Shopping Carts have managed to get money to their users through paypal right away. They have eliminated the waiting period. All That needs to happen on Pick Up and Self fulfillment Orders...is for your to take out your fee. Once you have done that, then you can automatically send payments to a pay pal account. If the direct deposit option is preferred...Then I can see you cutting down deposits to 3 days after payment. Most credit card transactions that happen are good. Its really easy to do, you just have to set up a system.
Thank you for this suggestion! Payments are sent as they currently are in order to avoid potential issues with the orders and with the payment. Since Instaproofs processes the payments, we are also ultimately responsible for anything that goes wrong with them (such as a chargeback being sent by the purchaser, or an order never being fulfilled by the photographer). Because of this, there has been a buffer built into our system to help ensure a safe transaction environment for both the photographer and the purchaser. You would be surprised at the number of photographers that simply do not fulfill their orders; sending payment immediately without confirmation that the order has been shipped leaves us without the funds to process the required refunds, and it leaves our system vulnerable to quite a bit of potential abuse. Because of the liability involved with these transactions, we will be keeping our payment cycles as they currently are for now.