How to send money to a friend paypal

Sending money to friends and family no longer requires the use of an expensive wire transfer service like Western Union or MoneyGram. With PayPal, you can send money to anyone with an email address or a mobile phone number. The recipient doesn't even need a PayPal account to get started, and there are no fees for you if you pay with your PayPal account balance or bank account.

Sending Money With PayPal

1. To get started, log in to your PayPal account and enter the recipient's email address or mobile phone number. Select the amount of money and type of currency you want to send. If you use your PayPal account balance or linked bank account to make the payment there's no fee to use the service. Using a debit or credit card incurs a 2.9 percent fee plus 30 cents per transaction. Sending money internationally also incurs a small fee.

Accepting the Payment

1. The person you send the money to will receive a text message or email letting him know you sent a payment. To claim the money, he will have to create a PayPal account. The individual can withdraw the money by linking a bank account, signing up for a PayPal debit card or requesting a paper check. The money you send will be available in his PayPal balance immediately upon opening a new PayPal account.

PayPal is putting new limits on a feature in its payment system that allows people to receive money without paying extra fees, the company recently announced. Starting July 28th, only personal PayPal accounts will be able to get funds via Friends & Family, a transaction method intended for trusted recipients.

There are two ways of sending money on PayPal: Friends & Family and Goods & Services. F&F is intended for paying your friend back for dinner, for example, or giving your kid some birthday money — you know who’s receiving the funds and what you’re paying them for. There’s typically no fee involved, but it also drops protections for issues that might come up, like refunds or scams.

G&S is intended for purchases, and money sent this way is subject to PayPal fees. Everyone hates fees! But with G&S, if the thing you buy isn’t as described, it’s damaged when it arrives, or it just never gets to the buyer, you can often easily get a refund for the purchase.

Many businesses handle transactions using a PayPal business account and take payments for goods and services through F&F, even though you’re technically not supposed to. The buyer might not realize the difference or care, or the business and the customer could agree to send cash that way to avoid seller fees. This is fairly common in many informal transactions, like people selling things on social media platforms — perhaps the buyer knows the seller personally and trusts that they’ll deliver. Sometimes sellers insist on F&F to avoid transaction fees, which causes problems if something goes wrong down the line.

The change is already causing frustration on the part of some creators, who use PayPal to run their business and will now be subject to additional transaction fees.

With this new change, US business accounts won’t be able to accept fee-free personal payments, and people who use PayPal for their company will need to create a personal account to receive money fee-free from friends and family.

PayPal didn’t immediately respond to questions about whether it changed the rules to crack down on miscategorized purchases but said in the announcement the tweak will “drive consistency on [the] platform” and “[remove] confusion around which payments are eligible for buyer and seller protections.”

In the same announcement, PayPal also said the transaction fee structure for goods and services would change beginning later this month. Currently, sellers pay 2.89 percent plus $0.49 per transaction, but starting July 28th, that will change to 2.99 percent without an additional flat fee.

Wise (formerly TransferWise)

If you often find yourself waking up in one country and going to sleep in another, managing money across borders can be difficult. Repeatedly exchanging cash into foreign currencies can cost a lot in fees.

Wise, a company focusing on “borderless banking,” makes managing money in multiple currencies a breeze. It’s also possible to do regular money transfers through the platform without setting up its borderless bank account. (Disclaimer: The author of this post had a TransferWise borderless bank account.)

How it works: Setting up a borderless bank account with Wise is free, and each section of the bank account can be designated for a certain currency. For example, if you add a euro balance, the bank account comes with a SWIFT number, just as it would in Europe; if you add a GBP balance, that balance will have a sort code. The bank account can hold and manage more than 50 currencies.

The debit card tied to your Wise account is a Mastercard, and funds can be added in a variety of ways. The account has the ability to convert currencies across balances (for a small fee), and withdrawing cash from a foreign ATM is about one-sixth the cost incurred with other debit cards, according to the company.

Payment options: Direct debit, wire transfer, debit card, credit card, Apple Pay. Fees for payment options depend upon the currency being paid or converted to.

Fees: $0 monthly account fee; converting currencies using your card is subject to a fee of at least 0.41%; ATM withdrawals of up to $100 per month are free, while anything over that is subject to a 2% fee.

Speed: The time it takes to receive funds on the debit card depends on how they’re added—some are available within seconds.

Transaction limits: There are no limits for how much you can receive and keep in all currencies other than USD. There is a $250,000 limit per transaction a day and a $1 million limit per year.

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