Account Limitations: What You Need to Know

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Keeping your business and customers safer

To ensure PayPal remains a safer place for enabling payments, we regularly review all accounts. Sometimes, limitations may be placed on your PayPal account, which could restrict you from completing certain actions: such as withdrawing, spending, or receiving money. Limitations are in place to help protect all our customers, and in some cases to meet our regulatory obligations. Protecting your account and money is important to us.

 

Account Limitations: What might cause it, and how to help avoid it?

If your PayPal account is limited, you may be unable to withdraw, send or receive money. There are a number of reasons why your account could be limited:

 

Suspicious & unusual activity

  • We suspect someone could be using your account without your knowledge.
  • Your bank alerts us that someone has used your credit/debit card linked to your account without your permission.
  • There are unexpected changes to your selling activities such as a sudden increase in your typical sales volume.

In such cases, we do what it takes to protect you from potential fraud prompted by the unusual activity– through limiting your account, and investigating.

 

You can safeguard your personal information and help protect yourself against fraud through some simple measures.  For example, don’t enter your personal or financial details when describing items for sale or in response to emails, and log out of sites you’ve entered your personal information into.

 

Regulatory reasons or business is not compliant

Your account could be limited for regulatory reasons. For example, India PayPal sellers need to include additional information to be able to accept payments in their account. Also, reaching a certain transaction value in your account may trigger a limit, which can also be removed by providing information required to PayPal.

 

There are also restrictions on what a PayPal account can be used to accept (and make) payments for. For example, PayPal doesn't allow the sale of counterfeit goods or banned items. So, ensure that your business is compliant with PayPal’s Acceptable Use Policy .


Increased buyer issues

An increase of complaints, claims and chargebacks from buyers can lead to account limitations.

 

Following some simple guidelines can help you improve your performance and reduce the likelihood of limitations. Overall, communication is key. You should:

  • Provide detailed product descriptions and photos.
  • Be upfront about policies such as shipping and returns.
  • Ship orders promptly and track shipments.
  • Respond quickly to any messages from buyers.
  • Work to amicably resolve any problems.
  • Ship to the address provided in the transaction details page.
  • Use quality shipping materials to prevent damage.

 

Removing limitations

 If your PayPal account is limited, here’s what happens:

  1. We’ll email you to let you know –  we’ll ask you to log in to your PayPal account and go to the Resolution Centre for details on how to resolve the issue quickly, usually by providing information.
  2. Once you’ve submitted the information required, we’ll review and reply via email.
  3. We’ll remove the limitations once we have verified your account. At times, limitations can be removed by simply changing your security questions and password.

Here are the types of information and documents we may need from you:

- Supplier’s invoice with contact information

This helps us determine the inventory source and validate that you have the items that you’re selling in stock.

 

- Payment information

When an invoice is unavailable, we’ll review the following information about your payments:

  • The item or service that was sold
  • The buyer’s name and shipping address
  • Proof of shipment to verify that an order was delivered

- Shipping or Tracking information

This helps us to verify that customer orders are being fulfilled.

 

- Proof of business
This provides evidence of a valid business registration and business ownership.

 

- Information for India sellers
This is to comply with our India regulatory obligations. Provide a valid PAN, a local bank account and the purpose code in your PayPal account task board.

 

- Proof of address such as bank statement or utility bill, Proof of identity such as passport or driver’s license
This helps us verify your identity when there is unusual account activity or to comply with regulations.

 

Once you’ve submitted your information, look out for any more emails from us as we may need additional details. We’ll do our best to confirm your information and remove the limitation within 2 business days, but sometimes it can take a little longer.

 

Quick Tip: If your PayPal account is limited, don’t open a new account. It could be traced back to the limited account.  It’s always best to resolve the limitation. We will guide you through it and restore full access to your PayPal account as quickly as possible.

 

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Saman0511
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You won’t be getting your body after 180days because mine has been held more than 200days with no way of getting my fund back
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Temp20230525GZ
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Try to call them , me i called them , and exactly after 180 days i get my money back
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Toughcookie333
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Where is the lawsuit? I want to join. These **bleep** locked my account with a refund coming in!! How convenient I am beyond **bleep**..

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buttaflybronx97
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Same Here..NO Reason.Took My Payroll THE SAMEDAY THEY CLOSED ME.....UNEMPLOYMENT AT THAT,!! 593.00 OF MY MONEY

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Anonymous_User
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Where is the link to join the class action lawsuit against those thieves? Can't find it 😕
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prpmysterious7
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I'm a recent victim. I've done nothing wrong. Same methods as always. I was recently asked to send proof. I did. At first, I checked to see if the logo and everything were the same, and it wasn't fraud. After their "review," I'm permanently "limited." I was shocked! All the email said is that my account is at risk. To whom? THEM?? In the last year and a half, I have been quite an increase in gaining money from mystery shops that pay only with PayPal. Only. I don't sell. Maybe they think it's too high an increase; I don't know. But I have some payments coming soon that I need. They certainly can not hold them! I'm going to contact the companies sending them, and try to have them stopped before they're sent, if it's not too late. I really was counting on that money! I thought this was PayPal's fault anyway. I changed my phone number recently. I called to have it changed because I messed up and forgot about the two-step verification. The CS could NOT change my new number on my account. The one I used for mystery shops. I was told I had to start a new one. I then had to edit ALL of my mystery shopping companies, and there are many. AND, other places that use PayPal for payment. That was a pain, only to be told I'm banned now. Sickening!

 

I do agree that someone needs to file a lawsuit. I know many companies are being hit by lawsuits about every little thing: extra sugar in cereal, etc, so this is a major thing in comparison.

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Swagby77
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Same here, good luck its honestly so frustrating I ended up giving up until theres a suit I can sign onto. Someone needs to make a facebook group and start a petition for users to sign that this happened to in some kind of secure way I think you can somehow on the web. It doesnt matter what you do it can be something as simple as changing a phone number or logging in from a laptop instead of the app on your phone and they ban freeze your money and keep all your card info its unbelievable there is a law I think where you should be able to delete your own data I think its called section 5 or something. What happens when they get ransom hacked and all paypal data gets taken which will probably happen because there a bad company, what then do you do?
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Swagby77
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Or get on change.org and look for pay pal petition
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Hardychad
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Years ago I used PayPal regularly and had no issues. I wanted to start using it again and logged on only to find out its $10.71 negative. Years ago when I stopped using it it made sure no money was left and for whatever reason they let a Spotify charge go through which put it negative...no fault of mine at all ...it has been years so I started updating account settings.(address,phone,bank info) and they slapped a limitation on my after I started a direct deposit to bring my account back to zero balance. The funds have cleared my bank but not been applied to PayPal. All other requirements they asked of me were fulfilled..just needed account to zero to unlimit they account but their not applying the money to do that...what happened to PayPal now I don’t wanna use them anymore
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