PayPal fee from ALLstar Customer Service

I just received a payment from Allstar Customer Service. Paypal charged me a fee because they sent the payment "as a payment for goods and services". Rather than as a transfer to friends and families. Anyone else have this problem? Solutions?

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This is my first month getting paid, and so far I had a $1 fee for one company, and no fee for another company (and thank goodness, because that company pays each job as a separate Paypal transaction, apparently!).

I like getting some Paypal, but when direct deposit in an option, that's what I'm going with. Although sometimes I shudder to think how many people out there have access to my bank account info these days!

I have never been charged by Pay Pal. You need to make sure the MSC has set it up properly for you. Direct deposit can be a pain and you have to give them your account routing numbers, I only have one company that does this. I would not want this information given to any companies that I don't have to.

Contact the MSC and ask about it. I have been using PayPal to accept payment for MS for over 15 years and have never been charged a fee. I have not done any shops for Allstar, though.

I have worked for Allstar and was not charged a fee, but i was paid by check rather than PayPal. There is a fee associated with a MSC sending money to an IC, but most MSCs pay the fee. Some charge it back to the IC. A couple MSCs that charge a fee for PayPal are Second to None and Stericycle, but both offer direct deposit with no fee charged. I think there are a couple of others that charge a fee when they pay you through PayPal but can't remember them offhand.

I was not charged a fee for All Star. Honestly, the money they sent you should have been designated as payment for goods or services, not as a transfer to a friend just to avoid fees.

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According to PayPal it is the other way around

What did you ask PayPal, how to avoid fees? We provide a service. We are both businesses, the shopper and the MSC. How is that a transfer to a friend?

A business sending a payment to an independent contractor for services rendered and calling it "a transfer to friends and family" would not be appropriate. That actually sounds like thinly veiled fraud. When we are paid by our customers, the MSCs, for work we have performed, "payment for goods and services" is the appropriate choice. There is a fee to send that way. Most of the MSCs pay that fee. Some charge the fee back to the contractor.

edited for typos. I hope I fixed them all. It's too early to proofread.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/22/2017 01:35PM by roflwofl.

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