I contacted PayPal directly as well, as this issue was kinda important, the below was the reply: Thank you for contacting PayPal regarding capturing the payment later whilst awaiting the shipment. I can understand that in Denmark the law tells that you can only capture the funds when the item has been shipped and therefore you have some inquiries about capturing funds through PayPal payment gateway. After reviewing your inquiry i can confirm that due to PayPal's Buyer and Seller protection we actually advise sellers to capture the funds immediately. The reason behind this is due to the fact that an authorization is only guaranteed for 3 days through PayPal, after that we can no longer guarantee that the funds will be available for the seller. However the buyer has 180 days buyer protection, so if the buyer doesn't receive the item that s/he bought the customer always have the option to dispute the transaction. With other words we will strongly advise you to capture the funds immediately. So I'm marking this as solved, since that answer is acceptable
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