PayPal's fee for tiny donations :(

There is a micropayment option on PayPal that you can apply to (if all the payments you receiving are less than $12 on average).

If you go with that option PayPal will cut your fees to .5 + 5% only per transaction.

You log to your paypal account and go to this link and apply. Will take 2 - 3 business days for them to review your account and see if it fits.

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

yes Lisha5684, it is 5 cent + 5%

you can click and the paypal link and check it out.

They released a month few months ago but for some reason isn't main page. I guess they don't think business are interested in the offer.

I am glad i could help

You can't signup for micropayments pro through the link above.

Here is the link where you can sign up for PayPal Micropayments pro:

https://www.paypalobjects.com/Integr...opayments.html

That is how to sign up for paypal micropayments pro.

Just click on the link that says account registration page.

You may have to create a new account with another email address in order to do it, for some reason.

In order to be able to use micropayments pro, you need to create a new business account by going to https://www.paypalobjects.com/Integr...opayments.html and then clicking the link that says "account registration page".

Then, once you have your business account you still need to set up that you want to use micropayment pricing fees.

In order to do this, you must follow these directions carefully because it is extremely hard to find the page to sign up for micropayments.

1. Log in to you paypal account.

2. In the search form at the top right of the page, input "sign up for micropayment pricing"

3. Click on the link that says "Online Payments, Merchant Account - PayPal"

Then at the bottom of that page you will be able to click "Agree and Sign Up"

Yay! Now you have smaller fees when you sell things that are under $12!

Hope this helps!

On a side note, just a heads up about using donation buttons for commercial gain on paypal.

Paypal closed us down last year without any explanation at all.

After a day, one of my VA's contacted me that she had done some research online and it was because one of our experimental sites used a paypal donation button to accept payments for commercial gain.

We immediately acted to close that site down and called paypal again and this time there was no problem and they reinstated the account. Apparently donation buttons are just for charities and other organizations.

Interestingly, on initially calling them they were completely tight lipped about why. Its as if they wanted me to know why. Weird.

Wanted to update everyone on this Micropayments Pro thing because the instructions are a bit different now.

Here is how you sign up for Micropayments Pro:


The regular fee when someone buys something from you is 2.9%+$0.30. If you’re selling things for $10 or less, you can sign up for Micropayments Pro so you will be charged a smaller fee (5%+$0.05).

In order to be able to use micropayments pro, you need to create a new business account by going to https://www.paypalobjects.com/Integr...opayments.html and then clicking the link that says "account registration page".

Then, once you have your business account you still need to set up that you want to use micropayment pricing fees. You must have a business account set up before you can sign up for Micropayments.

To sign up for Micropayments, you must follow these directions carefully because it is extremely hard to find the page to sign up for micropayments.

1. Log in to your paypal account.

2. In the search form at the top right of the page, input "sign up for micropayment pricing" and click “Search.”

3. Below “More results,” click on the link that says "Sign up for micropayment pricing - PayPal"

Then at the bottom of that page you will be able to click "Agree and Sign Up"

Paypal.....what a joke!! I can sense a change in the air.

Good News...

PayPal themselves don't like "small" transactions which is my guess to their fee policy. Anyways, you can't do anything about it other than sign up for the micro-payments service because...well...it's PayPal. You should try creating a slightly more expensive ecourse, perhaps at $4.95 which will allow you to reduce the fee percentage per sale.

It now turns out that my instructions to find the PayPal micropayments is obsolete. It seems that PayPal must have changed their search results to make it not pop up the same way. Now when you follow my above directions, the proper page does not pop up.

PayPal needs to make this easier for people who are selling inexpensive products. This is ridiculous.

Does anyone know the secret to get micropayments set up?

Since PayPal seems to change their search results, it's like it's different every month, so no one can keep up. I tried to help someone else get set up with micropayments and it was not even possible.

PayPal makes me very mad sometimes...

What a pain who wants to open another account lol

Hiii.. Warriors,

Honestly, i don't know about that.. but i think paypal should had their own commision, right..
I'm very sure, nothing is really free if you related to making money.. We may call it as a COST.

anyway, good luck.. friends

Thank's
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akustika-indonesia