I've been thinking of opening up a few new sites and they will have functionality for payments for paypal. Should I have separate accounts for each site or just do associated emails? Any suggestions? How do you have it set up?
I would just do associated emails saves on a lot of hassle. You're only allowed 2 x PayPal accounts anyway - one personal account and one premier/business account.
The only exception to one personal and one business account is if you accept micro payments; then you can open a second business account. The problem there is you have to also have a separate bank account / credit card to associate with the micro payments account, so its very difficult to have two.
I had kind of assumed that I would want to go with associated emails, but I also didn't know that you could only have two accounts. I suppose if you had more than one bank account, you might be able to get more? Thanks for the info everybody!
Technically if you had 10 bank accounts you could get 10 PayPal accounts, but that is strictly forbidden by PayPal, and given their track record they would probably call it fraudulent activity and seize all the funds in the paypal accounts. Paypal allows: 1 Business Account and 1 Personal Account and if you are doing micropayments, 1 additional business Micropayment Business Account. Anything else is against their TOS.