E-commerce with paypal

[Marghe13]

Hi, 

I am planning on launching a website with a friend to sell a few second hand / vintage items that we belong. Can I use paypal as payment method in my website ? 

Does this enable me to receive money without having necessarily having to register the business?

This is what was suggested to me: using paypal as payment method and not registering the company, since it will be something really small. They told me that if I use paypal to receive the money this will be similar to what happens in ebay and will not require registration.

Is this legal and possibile? 

Thanks in advance 

Margherita

[PayPal_Rachael]

Hi Marghe13,

Welcome to the community forum and thanks for posting.

You can use PayPal as a payment method for your website without having a registered business. I recommend using a premier account but if you have a bank account in a business name you can also use business account and just mark yourself as an individual when signing up. You will find more information on our selling options here https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/merchant .

I hope this helps.

Rachael

[davecurl]

Hi All, 

Was there any up to date news on international and Europe postage availability for PayPal buttons, I saw it was first raised in 2011 on one of these forums, has anything been done yet from PayPal 6 years later? 

Thanks