Paypal is a service used to send money, Typically from an E-mail to another E-mail address.
Paypal.com is a part of ebay, however its not restricted to ebay related purposes.
The basics of paypal are this:
(A need to send money is established by one of a few ways,
A: They ask you for money, in person, in an email or on the phone (all of these are assuming they know this information)
B: You purchase a product with them and they use paypal to manage and collect the money.
C: You owe somebody and want to send them money, or you just want to give somebody a donation.)
D: The payment is fast. It is a matter of seconds or minutes.
E: Fees or very low to transfer to your own bank.
Notice one thing though, paypal.com take fees which aren't "small". Take this into account when you use payapal. Surf to paypal to get information about how much those fees are.
You can't use paypal from every country in the whole world. Check at paypal.com which countries they approve.
In addition to the U.S.,
PayPal is now available in the following countries:
- Anguilla
- Argentina
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Canada
- Chile
- China
- Costa Rica
- Denmark
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hong Kong
- Iceland
- India
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Luxembourg
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Monaco
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Portugal
- Singapore
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
Users in some of these countries are limited to sending money with their
PayPal accounts. They may not receive payments. Check the original page for info.
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-approved-signup-countries-outside
Now having established that.
You goto the paypal.com site, now if you dont have an account you will be asked to sign up (and if you were referd there by a buisness (online or otherwise) chances are they will have you sent to a page that will quickly let you get this information filled out)
Next, paypal will ask you (because you dont have anymoney in your new paypal account) for bank information, credit/debit card information, etc (paypal.com is secure, make sure your at
https://www.paypal.com, more might be there but make sure it says https and that it is paypal.com if its paypal.tt thats NOT PAYPALS SITE!(only use paypal.com and the https means 'secure http', actually it means 'http secure')
Then you can pay your bill, your friend, etc
If you have any questions just look for places to ask paypal.com for help, as I'm not an authorized spokesperson of paypal.com if you have any question or comments goto paypal.com and inquire there, they will answer any of your questions.
Thank you for reading this and have a good day!
