PayPal is great until you have a problem. Then it's a nightmare.
Once you fall afoul of them, which can happen for something so trivial and non out of the ordinary that it takes a while to even understand what they could be having a problem with, they'll lock down your account and essentially shut down your business until you jump through a long series of hoops, each more difficult and less reasonable than the last.
If you're lucky, after a couple weeks of opaque and contradictory communication with them, they'll let you continue running your business. If not, you get to scramble to find another way to collect payment.
My advice is to skip all the above and go straight to the "find another way to collect payment" step. PayPal would be a great way thing if they were reasonable, or even rational. But they're not. It's just not worth it.
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PayPal is great until you have a problem. Then it's a nightmare.
Once you fall afoul of them, which can happen for something so trivial and non out of the ordinary that it takes a while to even understand what they could be having a problem with, they'll lock down your account and essentially shut down your business until you jump through a long series of hoops, each more difficult and less reasonable than the last.
If you're lucky, after a couple weeks of opaque and contradictory communication with them, they'll let you continue running your business. If not, you get to scramble to find another way to collect payment.
My advice is to skip all the above and go straight to the "find another way to collect payment" step. PayPal would be a great way thing if they were reasonable, or even rational. But they're not. It's just not worth it.