Mike Henderson
10-29-2018, 1:30 PM
I have a personal PayPal account (not a business account) and have used it to create mailing labels when I have something to ship. Recently PayPal started hiding multi order shipping on personal accounts but making it available on business accounts.
I think the reason they did that is many people who do a small amount of business use a personal account and get their customers to pay with "friends and family" so PayPal loses the fee they charge on business transactions. If you have a business account, you cannot accept a "friends and family" payment.
But PayPal shipping is a valuable resource for private shipments - you get discounted shipping rates (cheaper than if you go to www.usps.com (http://www.usps.com)) and it's convenient to print out the shipping labels.
There's a way to get to multi order shipping from a private account - at least for now.
1. Log into your PayPal account.
2. Click on "Help" and type in "multi order shipping" in the search line
3. You'll get a link to multi order shipping in the results - click on that.
A shortcut is to go through the process above, and when you get to multi order shipping, save the URL in your bookmarks bar. You can't use that to go directly to multi order shipping - you have to log on to your PayPal account first and then click on the link you saved.
If PayPal cuts off multi order shipping completely from personal accounts, I suppose I'll open a business account and only use it for printing shipping labels.
Mike
I think the reason they did that is many people who do a small amount of business use a personal account and get their customers to pay with "friends and family" so PayPal loses the fee they charge on business transactions. If you have a business account, you cannot accept a "friends and family" payment.
But PayPal shipping is a valuable resource for private shipments - you get discounted shipping rates (cheaper than if you go to www.usps.com (http://www.usps.com)) and it's convenient to print out the shipping labels.
There's a way to get to multi order shipping from a private account - at least for now.
1. Log into your PayPal account.
2. Click on "Help" and type in "multi order shipping" in the search line
3. You'll get a link to multi order shipping in the results - click on that.
A shortcut is to go through the process above, and when you get to multi order shipping, save the URL in your bookmarks bar. You can't use that to go directly to multi order shipping - you have to log on to your PayPal account first and then click on the link you saved.
If PayPal cuts off multi order shipping completely from personal accounts, I suppose I'll open a business account and only use it for printing shipping labels.
Mike