PayPal
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Question for those experienced with PayPal. What would you have liked to have known before you established your own PayPal account ? What advice do you have for someone before he sets up his own PayPal account ?
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Pay for something from overseas.
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Pay for something from overseas.
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Question for those experienced with PayPal. What would you have liked to have known before you established your own PayPal account ? What advice do you have for someone before he sets up his own PayPal account ?
Don't know is this is any use, as it depends on what you want PayPal for, but my client just used a service called TransferWise[^] to send me a payment from Australia, to South Africa. He did this just after 15h00 SAST the last Friday in 2015, and even for local inter-bank transfers, that's cutting it fine. Our delays, under normal conditions, on interbank transfers range from 0 to 3 days, but only some banks offer the 0 days option, at a fee. So I send you money today, you get it tomorrow, or two days after tomorrow. Now often transfers done after or even close before 15h30 (standard bank closing time) are only processed the next day, so I send you money late today, you get it minimum the day after tomorrow. TransferWise say an international transfer using them should take "1-4 working days", but they will "only send or receive your money during regular banking hours". I googled the time in Sydney when he made the payment, and it was a little over 00h00 there, and that is surely outside of normal banking hours nearly all over. With Monday being a holiday for New Years day*, even a local payment made that time Friday I would have to wait until Wednesday for the money. On Tuesday I received a mail from by bank requesting some mandatory compliance information, and had I been certain as to what to reply, would have received the money that day already. I delayed until last (Tuesday) night before replying to my bank, expecting only a helpful response some time today at best, and a no-go at worst. This morning at 07h30 I received an SMS that my bank had already received the funds, exactly the same time as for a local transfer, and might have even been quicker had I not delayed. * In my mad country, if a would be holiday falls on a Sunday, we get the Monday as one in compensation. Hell, last week we even got Monday and Tuesday for Christmas and 'Boxing' day, whatever you call the 26th December locally. :)
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Question for those experienced with PayPal. What would you have liked to have known before you established your own PayPal account ? What advice do you have for someone before he sets up his own PayPal account ?
Just a few from my brain. 1. If you are a business, you probably DON'T need to pay the $30/month for virtual terminal. 2. The invoicing is pretty powerful and easy to use for your customers. 3. No reason at all to keep money in Paypal. 4. Most of the time it is better to pay with paypal through your credit card, even though they try to push you to pay with your banking source. 5. If there is fraud, Paypal is MUCH BETTER than Google w.r.t. refunding lost money, in my experience (found out when a backup hard drive was stolen from my car!) 6. The SDK for payments is pretty slick, even if you need to roll your own. 7. You can set up multiple emails to deposit money into the same paypal account. 8. Use tricks that gmail has for addresses segregating payments eg. in gmail davidc@gmail.com, david.c@gmail.com, davidc+paypal@gmail.com are all equivalent
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Question for those experienced with PayPal. What would you have liked to have known before you established your own PayPal account ? What advice do you have for someone before he sets up his own PayPal account ?
Just a few from my brain. 1. If you are a business, you probably DON'T need to pay the $30/month for virtual terminal. 2. The invoicing is pretty powerful and easy to use for your customers. 3. No reason at all to keep money in Paypal. 4. Most of the time it is better to pay with paypal through your credit card, even though they try to push you to pay with your banking source. 5. If there is fraud, Paypal is MUCH BETTER than Google w.r.t. refunding lost money, in my experience (found out when a backup hard drive was stolen from my car!) 6. The SDK for payments is pretty slick, even if you need to roll your own. 7. You can set up multiple emails to deposit money into the same paypal account. 8. Use tricks that gmail has for addresses segregating payments eg. in gmail davidc at gmail.com, david.c at gmail.com, davidc+paypal at gmail.com are all equivalent and go to the same gmail account.
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Question for those experienced with PayPal. What would you have liked to have known before you established your own PayPal account ? What advice do you have for someone before he sets up his own PayPal account ?
I had to create an account because that was how one vendor paid for services. Used it a few other times for online purchases when it seemed that was the only way. That was up to a few years ago; now credit cards are more widely accepted and direct deposit (seems) to have gotten easier. Also, e-transfers are simpler and are often free (or included in your bank services). PayPal I think is still useful if you have your own site and are looking for "donations".
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Question for those experienced with PayPal. What would you have liked to have known before you established your own PayPal account ? What advice do you have for someone before he sets up his own PayPal account ?
Rather than manually withdrawing, contact PayPal and have "Auto-Sweep" enabled. Doing so means that funds in your PayPal balance are automatically swept into your connected bank account at the end of each day. I have one client who deals in paramilitary gear who (temporarily) lost close to $100k when PayPal froze his accounts after someone claimed he was selling firearms and ammunition (which wasn't the case, not even remotely!) and using PayPal for doing such.
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You didn't mention what it is you want to use your PayPal account for. If it's just to buy and sell stuff, then the topic is pretty much covered by earlier comments. If, on the other hand, you're considering PayPal as a payment gateway for an app you're writing, then I would urge you not to do so. I was about to go live with them once, but the Sandbox suddenly stopped working. It took 18 days to get a useless reply from their merchant account support team.
ecnelson wrote:
You didn't mention what it is you want to use your PayPal account for. If it's just to buy and sell stuff...
Another guy and I are collaborating on a project, and he asked me to set up such an account.
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Did you just ask me for my bank details in a public internet discussion forum? :-D See the first rule of Fight Club.
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..not your account details (unless you really wanna share? :-D ), just the name of your bank. But then, I've recently come to the conclusion they all suck to some degree.