Prevent showing my name?

Ekoi
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Greetings.

 

I'm an artist looking to start taking commissions and using paypal as my means of receiving payment, but I do not want my given birth-name shown whenever someone types in my email address to send funds.

 

How might I go about making it either not display my name, or showing something else instead? I would like to retain a certain amount of anonymity on the net, you see.

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PayPal_Adrian
PayPal Employee
PayPal Employee

Welcome to the boards!

 

As a fellow artist, I can understand wanting to do your works under a different name.  It has it's uses, after all.  Smiley Happy

 

That being said, your PayPal account absolutely must be registered under the correct name for you.  Don't register under a business name, pen name or alias. 

 

However, you can then, once you register your real name, upgrade to a Business account.  This allows you to send and receive payments under the Business Name you register - which could be your artist name!

 

Adrian

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