User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Mass Payments User Guide
- Contents
- Preface
- Mass Payments Overview
- Using Mass Payments in Your PayPal Account
- Using the Mass Payments API
- Mass Payments Reporting
- About Mass Payments Reporting
- Using the Reports Dashboard to Review Mass Payment Transactions
- Using Account History to Review Mass Payment Transactions
- Viewing Transaction Logs
- Downloading History Logs
- Receiving Instant Payment Notifications for Mass Payments
- Using the Settlement Report and the Transaction Detail Report
- Best Practices and FAQs for Mass Payments
- Mass Payments FAQs
- Is there a fee to send Mass Payments?
- How much money can I send?
- What countries can receive Mass Payments?
- Can I send money in different currencies?
- How do I confirm the receipt of payments?
- How do I cancel an individual payment?
- A recipient told me that payment was not received. What could be the problem?
- What does it mean if a mass payment is “Processing, Denied, Processed or Completed” in my transaction history?
- Mass Payments FAQs
- Currencies and Currency Codes
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Using Mass Payments in Your PayPal Account
Creating the Payment File
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of your Mass Payment request will fail and you will get an error message describing the issue.
See “Countries with Currency Restrictions” on page 13 for information about the countries
with restrictions.
For a complete list of the currency codes, see “Currencies and Currency Codes” on page 39.
Countries with Currency Restrictions. If you are a PayPal account holder in a country with
currency restrictions, make sure that your Mass Payment payment file contains requests that
meet your country’s requirements. If any of the payment file entries do not comply with the
country’s restrictions, those entries will fail with an error message. The remaining payment
file entries will be processed, assuming that there are no other errors in the file.
The following table the countries with currency restrictions and describes the restrictions that
apply to Mass Payments.
Country Currency Code Restrictions
Argentina ARS Argentine users can:
Send payments in ARS only to other Argentine users
Send payments in other currencies to all users, including those in
Argentina.
Argentine users cannot:
Send payments in ARS to users outside of Argentina
Send payments that result in currency conversion to or from ARS.
NOTE: Non-Argentine users cannot hold currency balances in ARS.
Brazil BRL Brazilian users can:
Send payments in BRL only to other Brazilian users.
Send payments in other currencies only to those outside Brazil.
Brazilian users cannot:
Send payments to other Brazilian users in a currency other than BRL.
Send payments that result in currency conversion to or from BRL.
NOTE: Non-Brazilian users cannot hold currency balances in BRL.
Malaysia MYR Malaysian users can:
Send payments in MYR only to other Malaysian users.
Send payments in other currencies to all users, including those in
Malaysia.
Malaysian users cannot:
Send payments that result in currency conversion to or from MYR.
Send MYR balances to non-Malaysian users.
NOTE: Non-Malaysian users cannot hold currency balances in MYR.