Mass Payment Overview

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    Save time, send everyone's payment at once

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    Pay up to 5000 people in just one click

No monthly fees – pay only when you send a payment

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How it works

Web upload

API

Web upload

  • Upload your list of recipients to PayPal
  • Send the payments with one click
  • Recipients get their money quickly

API

  • Create the payment file
  • Call the Mass Payment API
  • Get an Instant Payment Notification

How much does it cost to send a Mass Payment?

You pay fees only when you send a Mass Payment.

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Key benefits

Send several payments in just one click.

If you have a PayPal Premier or Business account, you may send mass payments to multiple recipients at one go. Contact us to see if you're eligible.

Convenient

  • Send payments to many recipients at once.
  • Send payments to recipients in different countries and currencies.
  • Recipients get paid quickly online.
  • Track payments easily.

Cost effective

  • Pay fees only when you send a payment.
  • Free for recipients.
  • Competitive pricing for domestic and international payments.
  • Currency conversion available for currencies supported by PayPal.

Flexible

Here are some of the many ways you can use Mass Payment:

  • Affiliate commissions.
  • Customer rebates.
  • Pay-to-surf rewards.
  • Employee benefits.
  • Survey incentives.

How it works

Before sending money to a group, please contact PayPal Customer Service or your account manager to make sure your PayPal account is eligible.

Sending payments to multiple recipients is easy with PayPal. First of all, you need to have a PayPal Premier or Business account before you may send mass payments. Contact us to see if you're eligible.

If you're already eligible to send mass payments, here's how to do it:

1. You need a PayPal balance

You'll need a balance or money in your PayPal account to send mass payments. If the amount isn't enough to cover the mass payment you want to send, you can top-up your PayPal account by transferring money from your bank account.

Additionally, make sure that the currency of your PayPal balance matches the currency of the mass payment you're sending.

Note:
Sending mass payments to Malaysians requires you to use Malaysian Ringgit from your PayPal balances.

For mass payments outside of Malaysia, you'll need to have a foreign currency balance in your PayPal account.

2. Create a list of recipients Learn More

Include the following information in a text file like Notepad, or a tab-delimited file like Excel.

  • Email addresses for up to 5000 recipients.
  • Payment amounts and currency.
  • One currency type per file.

See a sample file

3. Upload the file

Log in to your PayPal account and upload the file.

4. Send your payment

After you've reviewed your payment information, click Send. You'll receive an email when the payment is complete.

5. Your recipients get paid

Your recipients will receive an email to let them know you've sent a payment.

If they don't have a PayPal account, we'll send them instructions on how to create a PayPal account so that they can receive the payment.

You can use the recipient information stored in your database to send automated payments to up to 250 recipients.

1. Set up the payment file

Make sure to include the email address of each recipient, the payment amount, and the currency code.

2. Call the Mass Payment API

You can set up an API call to send a payment to up to 250 recipients.

Go to the Mass Payment API page to learn more.

Fees and currencies

Competitive pricing for payments and currency conversions

  • No set-up fees.
  • No monthly costs.
  • Recipients don't pay fees to receive your payment.
  • Senders pay a small fee for each transaction.

Automatic currency conversion

When your recipient's currency is different from your own, we automatically convert your payment at competitive rates.

For more information about where payments can be received, see the PayPal Worldwide page.

Fraud protection

Fraud protection on every transaction

All Mass Payments benefit from our industry-leading fraud protection and powerful 128-bit SSL encryption.






Reports and logs

Simple recordkeeping for all payments

Email confirmation

You'll get an email to confirm that your payment was sent.

Online records

View your payment history securely and conveniently in your PayPal account.

Downloadable logs

Export your transaction history to Excel, QuickBooks, or Quicken.

Or, use our Instant Payment Notification APIs to pass your payment status directly to your accounting system.

Reports

Keep track of all your payments, refunds, and sales activities with a variety of reports:

  • Summarized settlement.
  • Financial summary.
  • Transaction details.
  • Daily sales summary.

You can get all your reports easily from your PayPal account.

Support

We're here to help

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