2 Ways to Improve Your PayPal Account
- You need to use a verified or business PayPal account to sell content through ChargePlay. If you are charging small values (under $7) we recommend you set up a new 'microprocessing' PayPal account especially for using ChargePlay.
- If you already have a PayPal account, use that one.
- If your PayPal account is not verified, sign into PayPal and add some ID or better still, convert to a business account. Its free. If you don't do this, customers can claim back money paid to you and they are automatically refunded by PayPal, you may get your PayPal account suspended, and you may loose sales as restrictions on selling digital goods are higher.
PayPal Micropayments (OPTIONAL)
- THE BASICS
Enabling 'Micropayments' with PayPal makes it cheaper with PayPal for small transactions. MUCH cheaper.
- THE MATHEMATICS
Normal charges are around 20p (or $0.30) + 3% ish depending on volume. (1.4% if you are a non profit). This is expensive for small transactions. 'Digital Goods' is 5p(or 5c) + 5%, which is better value when you are charging only small amounts to view your films. With a normal account anything below $30c or 20p will be wiped out by fees completely, with micropayments the PayPal processing fee will be around 6-7c or 6-7p.
- HOW TO ACTIVATE
Request that your existing Business or Premier PayPal account be switched to micropayments pricing here: https://micropayments.paypal-labs.com/
- NOTES
You can only have one price structure per account, so make sure it is seperate. We suggest you use a new email address like micropayments@yourdomain.com. Both Business and Premier accounts are free, but if you only have a personal account you might need to upgrade by adding some more details. Once your account is switched, you will no longer receive your old pricing, and instead you will be charged the Micropayments rate. The change takes 2-3 working days.
Verify your PayPal Account (OPTIONAL)
- If you do not verify your account you will need to 'claim' each payment.
- Unclaimed transactions are refunded after 30 days.
- On a verified PayPal account payments are automatically claimed.

