Hi, I am new to paypal and would really appreciate your wisdom on the following. I recently signed up for paypal. paypal Account Type: Premier account verified using credit card. I joined Smorty and when receiving payment, I get the following email from smorty. Hi, Smorty tried to transfer funds to your PayPal account. Unfortunately the PayPal ID you have provided is not accepting payments. Please log in to your Smorty account and enter a valid PayPal ID to be able to receive payments from us. Smorty Any idea why? Thank a lot.
Which country are you from ? Check here https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-country-functionality-outside and see if your country is listed which can receive payment. Not all countries supports receipt of payment.
Can you tell us what is this 'Smorty' I heard this first time. Have you entered your paypal email id properly there ? DON.
Yes, I checked the country. It is included in the list. So theoretically I should be able to accept money! sigh...
If you are wondering what Smorty is, its a way of earning money by writing about a certain product/service.
Oh Crap !.... Here we go. The country I am in is listed under “Send Money to Anyone in the Growing PayPal Network†So, we can’t accept payment through PayPal for collecting AdSense balance etc. All we can do is, use this as a payment method :-( You have to use a credit card to add funds to your PP account, and then send payments to others. It’s nothing different from using the credit card directly to pay online. Problem solved.. Sigh sigh sigh..... Thank you very much for your quick response.
Actually even if you can receive payment, you cannot do so with Adsense. Paypal/eBay is a rival of Google Adsense/Checkout and they will not use each others' network to pay. Yes, basically it is no different than using your own credit card, the only thing is that your merchant would not get hold of your credit card number.