Paypal micro payments

[bestway]

Hello,

Paypal has "micro payments" plan for 5% +5 cents for sales under $12 by opening a separate account for the micro transactios. Anyone knows where in Paypals website can be found?

Thanks,

sales@bestwayphonecards.com

[chris_l]

I've been trying to get a micropayment account approved for a few days now. Spoke to someone in their call centre the other day and they didn't have a clue what I was talking about. Sent a merchant technical support email too and haven't heard back. They don't make it easy, that's for sure.

[logonwheeler]

I found this web page - might be a help to you:



https://www.paypal.com/IntegrationCenter/icmicropayments.html

[chris_l]

Hi Logonwheeler - thanks for that.



That's the page I used to sign up, but it seems it just redirects you towards the usual 'choose your account based on your needs' page, rather than being able to just explicitly select a micropayment account. Rather vague.

[bestway]

Hello, Logonwheeler & Chris_L

I will try my luck by opening another account, I will let you know the developments.

I am enclosing here a link to a 10 minutes FREE phone card PIN for your kindness.

Delivered by - you guessed it - E-junkie

Thanks

sales@bestwayphonecards.com



https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?c=cart&i=15644&cl=13888&ejc=2" target="ejejc" class="ec_ejc_thkbx

[bestway]

Hello, Logonwheeler & chris_L

I tried on the web and they did't let me to attach my checking account

to the new account and I can't withdraw funds only by using a debit card.

After i spoke to paypal customer service I got the righ way to do it.



This is the way, Open another account with Paypal, use different E-Mail address.

Than go to Paypal help get customer service phone # along with 6 digit

web phone code, call & tell them you want to make a parent - child account

and the child account (the new one) should be on micropayment rates.

This way you are able to transfer fund free from the child account to the parent

account.

This method will be helpfull for E-Junkie clients accepting payments under $12



For more info do not hesitate to contact me at sales@bestwayphonecards.com

[chris_l]

Thanks for the info, Bestway.



Does that basically mean you can open a micropayment account without needing it to be attached to another bank account?

[bestway]

Chris_L, Hi



That's right, You will get a link at paypal's withrawl page to transfer your collected money to the parent account and from ther you transfering to your checking account.



This way you have an option to link the micro payments to the micro account and the macro to the regular account.



sincerely

[tvsmvp]

I tried this today with no luck. There doesn't seem to be any way to create two PP accts and have them both linked to (or verified by) the same bank acct.



I called twice and was told the same thing both times (this after they checked with their superiors): There's no way to link a bank account to two different PP accts, no matter how you set it up. What am I missing?



I thought maybe the "parent-child" relationship bestway was referring to was the PP "student" account - but was told that both accounts (in that case) would have to be either micro or regular, not one or the other.



I'm thinking that setting up a savings acct and using that to verify the new (micro payments) acct is the only way. Any ideas for workarounds?

[E-junkie_Guru]

We really cannot speak for PayPal regarding their policy, so all we have to add is that we support sending order totals under $12 to a separate Micropayments PayPal account email; this is configured in E-junkie Seller Admin > Payment Preferences.



If PayPal does not allow your Micropayments account to reference the same bank account as your regular PayPal account, then you may simply need to setup a separate bank account for Micropayments, as you have suggested. I reckon a savings account might work, and if it's at the same bank as your regular account, that would likely make it easy to transfer funds between the accounts.

[freeaffiliate]

informative post.. thanks

[iaudioguide]

I have the impression that the micropayments conditions of paypal changed recently, but reading this forum it seems paypal alrady applied the lower fees for micropayments in 2009. Maybe somebody from the e-junkie team could make a summary what (if anything) paypal changed) and hwo this afects e-junkie accounts.



When being on the paypal page, I was offered to change.



From papyal: "You can request that your existing Business or Premier PayPal account be switched to micropayments pricing. Once your account is switched, you will no longer receive your old pricing, and instead you will be charged the Micropayments rate. You can only make the request with a Business or Premier account. To make the request"



Do I need to change somtething if all activity is moved to micropayments?

[E-junkie_Guru]

If PayPal did change their fee rates for Micropayments, that wouldn't affect anything at our end, and we'd have no need to be informed of such a change. You should contact PayPal if you have any questions about their fees or policies. This appears to be their current Micropayments page:

https://micropayments.paypal-labs.com/



Our only involvement in Micropayments is sending your order totals under $12 to checkout using a different PayPal Email that you have set up for Micropayments, if you'd entered that email in your E-junkie Seller Admin > Payment Preferences, rather than checking out with your regular PayPal Email entered in Admin > Edit Profile.



If all of your orders would qualify as Micropayments, then you might just consider converting your regular PayPal account to a Micropayments basis, and just set that as your regular PayPal Email in Admin > Edit Profile; in this case, there'd be no need to bother with our Micropayments PayPal Email setting, since you wouldn't need us to send orders over $12 to one account vs. under $12 to a different account, if all your orders are under $12 anyway.