How do I receive money through PayPal? (2024)

FAQs

When someone pays you through PayPal, how do you get the money? ›

With PayPal, you receive money when someone pays to your email address or mobile number. Once that happens, we'll send you a message letting you know you have money available. You can access the money you receive on your PayPal account home page.

How do I receive money to my account with PayPal? To accept the money, you must open a PayPal Balance account and confirm your email address. After that, you can receive money when someone pays to your email address or mobile number. You'll receive a message through the app letting you know you have money available.

Choose a username to create your PayPal.Me link. Share your link with your client to request payment. Your client will click on the link, log into PayPal, and complete the payment. The payment will be registered in your PayPal account.

When the buyer sends payment, the funds are transferred from their bank account to the seller's PayPal account. The electronic payment is essentially funded by the buyer's bank. An e-check must clear the bank before it is credited to the recipient's PayPal account. This can take anywhere from 3 to 6 business days.

Do You Need a Bank Account for PayPal? No, you don't need a bank account to sign up for PayPal or to receive payments. You can, however, connect your PayPal account to a bank account, a debit card or a credit card account for sending and receiving payments and transferring funds.

Bank or Debit Card Transfer

Here's how to make an Instant transfer to your eligible debit card or bank account (subject to a fee) on the PayPal website: Go to Wallet. Click Transfer Money. Click Transfer to your bank.

If your PayPal account is set up where you have to manually claim each payment, once notified of payment you'll need to head to PayPal to accept the payment: Log into PayPal. Go to Summary. Under 'Pending', next to the message showing the recipient 'hasn't accepted yet', click Approve.

QR codes give your customers a fast, touch-free way to pay you using the PayPal app. You can create and print your PayPal QR code, then display it for customers to scan. Your QR code is unique to your business, so you don't need a new one for every transaction.

How do I use PayPal me to receive money? ›

If you want to receive money on PayPal, in most cases, all you have to do is give the sender your email address or phone number. They can send you money using either of these details, and PayPal will send a message telling you that it's available.

With PayPal, you receive payment when someone sends a payment to your email address or mobile number. Once that happens, we'll send you a message letting you know you have a payment available. You can access the payment you receive on your PayPal account home page.

All PayPal accounts allow you to send and receive payments.

Account limitations prevent you from completing certain actions with your account, such as withdrawing, sending, or receiving money. These limitations may be implemented when we see activity that seems unusual or suspicious. This is intended to help protect both buyers and sellers.

You may be able to use PayPal to receive money without adding a bank account or card. You'll simply need to verify your email to get your payment². However, as the usual way you verify your account is by adding your bank, credit or debit card, you might find that your access to some services is limited in this case.

Once a payment is sent, it will usually appear in your account within two business days. Please bear in mind that there can be delays with receiving your payments such as bank holidays.

With data encryption, real-time transaction monitoring and buyer and seller protection policies, PayPal's a safe way to pay and get paid.