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August 21, 2025 05:47PM
Hey all! I was wondering about your experience with BARE payments through Tipalti. I just received my first payment with them for 2 shops, and I was charged a $4 fee. So instead of getting the $21 for the shops, I got $17. I do have it set up to pay me through PayPal. Has anyone experienced this? Is there a way to get around these fees? Thanks for your input in advance!
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August 21, 2025 06:22PM
I just recently got paid from Bare using paypal and no fee was taken out. I am not sure if mine went thru Tipalti first. I do remember tho someone saying to check how your own paypal account is set up. As I recall setting paypal up as a personal account vs a business acct (they may call it something different but similar) will result in no fees.
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August 24, 2025 07:31AM
Tipalti has never charged me to direct deposit my BARE payments.

Paypal doesn't charge the receiver, they charge the sender. If you want to send a payment for $12 and Paypal charges $4 for the transaction, the payer would send $16, the receiver would receive the $12 they are owed.
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August 24, 2025 12:08PM
BARE payments are part of the fragmentation from them farming out jobs via iSS.

The iSS stuff pays via PayPal at what seems like totally random times a couple of times a month.

Haven't done a BARE gig on their own site in awhile, so I don't remember the Tipalti payout period, but I do remember it as being consistent.

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August 25, 2025 07:20AM
What kind of Paypal account do you have? If you the have the paypal account that accepts credit card payments (usually a business account), that could be a reason. I use a personal paypal account for places that pay via paypal for mystery shopping. I still have the "business" paypal account for when I am selling things and people want to pay with CC.

My BARE payments are set up thru Tipalti with direct deposit.
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August 25, 2025 03:58PM
I just have a regular personal PayPal. Nothing attached to a credit card.
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August 29, 2025 07:29PM
I was a longtime BARE shopper but their stuff kind of dried up. Never had a problem with payments. Received around the 15th of the following month.
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