How do I receive payments through PayPal?

With PayPal, you receive payment when someone sends a payment to your email address or mobile number. Once that happens, we’ll send you a message letting you know you have a payment available.

You can access the payment you receive on your PayPal account home page. You can then choose to:

• Transfer it to your bank account, or
• Keep it in your balance to send payments to friends and family or to shop online

To accept the payment, you’ll need to open a PayPal account and confirm your email address.

To add an additional layer of confidence when receiving a payment, we now provide the sender of funds the option to share a link directly with the recipient that the recipient can use to access and redeem their payment.