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Cartmanager + Googlecheckout, Cartmanager + PayPal - Free EBAY, PayPal, Business and Law Forums - Ebay Suspension, PayPal Limited
Now what is the advantage of using your PayPal with EBAY via cartmanager versus directly? First of all, keep in mind, to sell on EBAY today, you must have either a VERIFIED PayPal Account linked directly to your EBAY account, or a merchant account APPROVED BY EBAY. Period – one or the other.
And in some unlucky countries such as the United Kingdom, PayPal up until recently has been the ONLY choice (but that appears to be now changing - now in the UK it is same as U.S. - you can get approved for merchant account ONLY status).
In Australia, you MUST offer PayPal even if you offer other payment options.
So, unless you get approved for "merchant account ONLY status" with EBAY, you are stuck with PayPal anyway.
Now, if you DO get approved for merchant account only status, and still want to offer the option of PayPal for your customers, then you will DEFINITELY want to get cartmanager and use it with your EBAY because then you maintain "arms length" from your PayPal to your EBAY. In other words, the PayPal that you use with EBAY via cartmanager is NOT the same as a PayPal directly linked to EBAY - that PayPal via cartmanager setup does not put all your EBAY transactions under the same level of scrutiny that using PayPal directly with EBAY does.
When you use PayPal at arm's length with cartmanager, PayPal simply processes your transactions and for the most part treats them as regular merchant transactions, and does not feel the need to step in and shut you down for what it perceives to be EBAY type violations. Also, if your "arm's length" PayPal is shut down, this will not automatically mean that your EBAY is shut down or affected (while, quite the opposite is true with an Ebay linked directly to a PayPal, if one goes down, usually the other does eventually as well).
So, the main purpose of separating them is so that then PayPal does not directly scrutinize your EBAY sales.
AND, even if you MUST use PayPal, I STILL recommend using cartmanager and linking to say, a different PayPal account (or even the same one directly linked to your EBAY), because this puts less strain on the PP directly linked to your EBAY. And the same reasons as above still apply: PayPal will scrutinize arm's length EBAY transactions less carefully than ones directly linked to Ebay.
Cartmanager + Googlecheckout, Cartmanager + PayPal - Free EBAY, PayPal, Business and Law Forums - Ebay Suspension, PayPal Limited
Now what is the advantage of using your PayPal with EBAY via cartmanager versus directly? First of all, keep in mind, to sell on EBAY today, you must have either a VERIFIED PayPal Account linked directly to your EBAY account, or a merchant account APPROVED BY EBAY. Period – one or the other.
And in some unlucky countries such as the United Kingdom, PayPal up until recently has been the ONLY choice (but that appears to be now changing - now in the UK it is same as U.S. - you can get approved for merchant account ONLY status).
In Australia, you MUST offer PayPal even if you offer other payment options.
So, unless you get approved for "merchant account ONLY status" with EBAY, you are stuck with PayPal anyway.
Now, if you DO get approved for merchant account only status, and still want to offer the option of PayPal for your customers, then you will DEFINITELY want to get cartmanager and use it with your EBAY because then you maintain "arms length" from your PayPal to your EBAY. In other words, the PayPal that you use with EBAY via cartmanager is NOT the same as a PayPal directly linked to EBAY - that PayPal via cartmanager setup does not put all your EBAY transactions under the same level of scrutiny that using PayPal directly with EBAY does.
When you use PayPal at arm's length with cartmanager, PayPal simply processes your transactions and for the most part treats them as regular merchant transactions, and does not feel the need to step in and shut you down for what it perceives to be EBAY type violations. Also, if your "arm's length" PayPal is shut down, this will not automatically mean that your EBAY is shut down or affected (while, quite the opposite is true with an Ebay linked directly to a PayPal, if one goes down, usually the other does eventually as well).
So, the main purpose of separating them is so that then PayPal does not directly scrutinize your EBAY sales.
AND, even if you MUST use PayPal, I STILL recommend using cartmanager and linking to say, a different PayPal account (or even the same one directly linked to your EBAY), because this puts less strain on the PP directly linked to your EBAY. And the same reasons as above still apply: PayPal will scrutinize arm's length EBAY transactions less carefully than ones directly linked to Ebay.