Paypal Receiving money Query...

greeneye

Can't imagine paypal will be altering their systems to accomadate one user particularily as you are only talking about £750.

The only thing you can do is shut down your paypal account once you have hit your target.
Or once you've hit your £750 target change the email address that your customers are sending to, to a non paypal registered one. You could automate this change of email on your website if you know how to script it. But if you knew how to script it you could similarily script a message to come up saying your not accepting any more payments.

Anyway Paypal payments sent to an email addresses not registered with paypal will show as "unclaimed" in the senders account.
Their money will actually show as having left their account but in reality it will just be sitting with Paypal having gone nowhere and if they hit cancel payment the funds will instantly reappear in their accounts.
You could also have an autoreply email from the second email account set up informing buyers of this and that they just need to cancel their payment in Paypal.
Googlemail etc provide this autoreply service for any incomming mail when you are on holiday.

Stu_Dent

greeneye wrote: »

Can't imagine paypal will be altering their systems to accomadate one user particularily as you are only talking about £750.

The only thing you can do is shut down your paypal account once you have hit your target.
Or once you've hit your £750 target change the email address that your customers are sending to, to a non paypal registered one. You could automate this change of email on your website if you know how to script it. But if you knew how to script it you could similarily script a message to come up saying your not accepting any more payments.

Anyway Paypal payments sent to an email addresses not registered with paypal will show as "unclaimed" in the senders account.
Their money will actually show as having left their account but in reality it will just be sitting with Paypal having gone nowhere and if they hit cancel payment the funds will instantly reappear in their accounts.
You could also have an autoreply email from the second email account set up informing buyers of this and that they just need to cancel their payment in Paypal.
Googlemail etc provide this autoreply service for any incomming mail when you are on holiday.

thank you very much for your reply,

my issue is that once i have sold out of a particular item i wont have anymore, and therefore have to be able to somehow prevent payments from coming into my account or it could lead to mass refunds...

i could definately put a note on my website saying sold out but i dont think this will help and therefore need to think of a way somehow of preventing money from coming into my account.

I read something on the paypal website about balance limits, see here https://www.paypal.com/helpcenter/main.jsp;jsessionid=F8pYp1f1nnCtmSLyT3J17MR7QBpvGLm2yVJ8PpX5LGkhxbFqwY6R!-679469552?locale=en_GB&_dyncharset=UTF-8&cmd=_help-ext&t=solutionTab&ft=searchTab&ps=solutionPanels&solutionId=16951&isSrch=Yes

If i wanted a limit of eg. £750 i could leave £250 in the account and then use the automated balance limit?

Stu