Adding Funds to PayPal
October 15, 2008
Adding funds to your PayPal account is actually very simple. PayPal makes it so that you can add funds to your account either from your checking or savings account through electronic funds transfer.
The first thing you need to do is click on the Add Funds box on you’re My Account page. This will take you to another page that will give you a brief explanation of how you can add funds to your account. And of course, there is no charge to do this. After all, they are getting to use your money so why would they charge you to do this? Read more
PayPal Overview Continued
September 24, 2008
In my last post on our complete guide to PayPal we began our review of the overview screen. Here, we’re going to finish going over the overview screen and then continue from there.
The overview screen contains a few more items that you will probably not use very often except maybe for one, and that is the file option. Next to each transaction, you will notice a little box on the left hand side that you can click in. By doing so, and then clicking on the form submit link that says “File Selected Items”, this particular item will no longer appear on your overview screen. If you have a lot of transactions in a short period of time, you may want to do this occasionally after reviewing each item or this information will really
start to build up. This way you can always see what the most current transactions are.
If you like, there is also a “File All” option which you can use if you want to file all the items on your overview screen. Other than that, you will see on the left hand side of your overview screen, a number of offers and announcements from PayPal. These are going to change on a daily basis so there is no point going over them. However, one thing you want to look out for are upgrade opportunities. For example, right now on my account is an opportunity to activate my PayPal mobile account, which I have no desire to do.
There are also enhancement options you will be given as well depending on what kind of account you have. Right now I still haven’t taken advantage of the PayPal debit and credit cards. I probably won’t only because I have no need to.
One thing you better read on this page is the policy updates. This is critical because if PayPal makes changes to their policies and you are unaware of them, you could end up violating their terms of service, which will ultimately end up getting your PayPal account terminated. To give you an example of this, a while ago, it was okay for a business to run an operation that paid out commissions on multiple levels, or what we commonly refer to as MLM or Multi Level Marketing. Well, the time came when PayPal finally decided that MLM programs would no longer be allowed to participate in the PayPal program. An announcement was made under policy updates. Many people, unfortunately, did not read this update. What ultimately happened is that they ended up having their funds frozen. In some cases it took up to 6 months to get them unfrozen. In almost all cases, they lost their PayPal privileges.
However, those who were smart and read the updates restructured their business to fall within the PayPal
guidelines or searched for other payment processor options.
In our next post on PayPal, we’re going to move on to the add funds screen on the My Account page. There’s still a lot more to cover but don’t worry. We’ll be taking things one step at a time so you don’t get confused and overwhelmed.
PayPal Overview
September 8, 2008
We’re going to pick up with our discussion of the overview screen. We left off with the status section in our last chapter. Under status you will see a box that says “PayPal Account Balance.” In that box you will see the currency that you are being paid in, what your balance is and what you are currently earning on your account. Yes, if you keep money in your PayPal account, you will earn interest on it, just like with a bank. The difference is, the interest here is a lot higher. Currently it is 2.35% My bank is paying about 1%. This is another advantage of keeping your money with PayPal.
Your ClickBank Check
August 21, 2008
I have mentioned the requirements you must meet in order to get your first ClickBank check in previous posts. But it can be a bit confusing why you are not getting paid even though you have made some sales.
The main roadblock is something innocently called the CDR: Customer Distribution Requirement
ClickBank accounts cannot be used for the sole purpose of collecting rebates or otherwise extending credit to yourself or others. In compliance with US law, ClickBank will withhold payment of any account balance until it contains standing sales made with 5 or more different credit card numbers, including at least one Visa card, and one MasterCard. PayPal purchases do not count toward the minimum.
Why You Need Multiple ClickBank Accounts
August 18, 2008
I love ClickBank. There is really no other way to say it. You put your product in the marketplace and you immediatly get a stream of affiliates promoting for you day and night.
There is one odd little glitch in the system however. What if you have two products?
This is not a problem for Clickbank, you can have up to 500 products on one account.
BUT…
You can only have one site page.
PayPal Premier Account
August 12, 2008
We’re going to pick up with the Premier Account and explain the advantages of having one.
There are actually very few differences between the Premier Account and the Business Account. However, there are a number of differences between both of those accounts and the personal account.
Logging in to PayPal
August 10, 2008
Now we’re going to log into our PayPal account and begin to go over some of the things that we have available to us.
NOTE: Because the items that you will have available to you are different for each account type, we are going to do this review based on having access to everything. If you want to actually be able to access the sections we cover and can’t do so, you will have to upgrade your account in order to do so. Otherwise, this tutorial would be impossible to do. Okay, now that we have that out of the way, let’s dig into the PayPal site and see what we have there.
PayPal - Beginning the Tour
July 25, 2008
So those of you following along, we have signed up for our free PayPal account. Now we’re going to begin our tour of the vast PayPal site and go over some of the main items there. There’s going to be an
enormous amount of material to cover, so just take things nice and slow and you’ll be just fine.
Probably the first place we should start is with the 3 types of PayPal accounts so that you understand the differences between them and the advantages and disadvantages of each one.
Signing up with PayPal
July 19, 2008
In the last post, I gave a brief introduction to what PayPal actually was. Here, we’re going to dive right into the sign up process and begin going over the many parts of your PayPal account.
PayPal
July 17, 2008
For those who are already somewhat familiar with PayPal, please bear with me for just a moment. PayPal is a payment processor, plain and simple. What this means is that if you want to collect money for services rendered over the Internet, and don’t have or can’t get your own merchant account, PayPal will collect the money for you and deposit it into your online account. From there, you can then transfer the money to your own bank account or even have PayPal issue you a check.
