I recently got a PayPal Business account for my online teaching business. I offer a service and not a product that needs to be shipped. I paid myself twice using my personal paypal account to test how everything works for my students and to figure out how much the conversion fee would be.
I have two payments in my "Activity" tab now, but they're on hold for 21 days. I got this reason and I understand it:
Why your money is on hold
PayPal will withhold any money from sales because:
You’re new to PayPal, or we have limited selling history on this account.
How to access your money sooner
Process 8 more payments for goods and services.
Process $176,45 USD more in sales.
Have no disputes for 56 more days.
BUT what I don't understand is that those payments are on shipping for some reason. It needs to always be a virtual service so how do I change it to that because these steps aren't working:
Here's how to add tracking information or update an order status:
Go to your Activity.
Choose “All Transactions.”
Find the purchase you want to update, then click Get your money. If you sold a product, choose “Product” to add tracking information or print a shipping label. If you sold an intangible item or service, choose “Service or virtual product” to update the order status. You can update the order status to Completed, Pending, or Canceled.
Click Submit.
ALL I have to choose is "Add tracking", "refund", or "archive", I can't change it to "service or virtual product". I don't want to annoy my students with this either, whenever they pay it should be quick and easy without me needing to say order shipped (I'm not shipping anything???) and then them marking received on their side.
I tried to get through to customer support, but it's impossible and so difficult to reach PayPal, does anyone have a solution for this?
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