Step by Step for South Africans to receive money via PayPal

I’m set! I’m a South African living in South Africa and can now receive payments via PayPal from online writing sites etc I belong to. Now I will be able to join a few more of these online writing sites that pay only via PayPal. And it wasn’t so difficult afterall. I really thought it would be difficult, but it wasn’t.

I used to get excited when I found a nice site from which I could earn some extra income, only to end up miserable when I saw that the only way the site paid was via PayPal – and South Africa was not yet allowed to receive monies via PayPal. Now us South Africans can receive money via PayPal, and I can make money writing online.

The steps went pretty much like this:

Opened a PayPal account – it can even receive monies while just open and not verified, but you can’t draw the money out until your PayPal account is linked to your FNB bank account.

Confirmed my email address when PayPal emailed me the confirmation link.

Went to FNB (who I was not yet banking with) with my ID book and opened a silver cheque account. I just sat down at a “open an account” desk and somebody helped me, taking me through all the steps.

I had to choose a username for the FNB connect site (cellphone banking) (that I haven’t even bothered with yet) and a password was immediately sms’d to my cellphone which I had right there with me.

I jotted down any passwords or usernames I was given – to keep in a safe place.

Once done, went over to an ATM with the FNB employee who helped me deposit R50 into my new account.

I was told I would get an sms sent to my cellphone when my card was ready to be collected. This happened about 2 days later and I went back to the FNB branch. I was told to go to the “new card” counter and I was issued with a card, and I selected a pin I could use when using an ATM.

I then went to another counter and sat down to be helped by customer service. The FNB employee did everything and registered me for online banking. I selected a username and password I would use to log in when I wanted to go online the FNB site on my computer at home. The FNB employee helped me through everything just like the one who did 2 days before. It was all very easy, pretty much just sitting there while the employee took me through the different steps. I again jotted down any usernames and passwords (and what they were for in case I got confused later.) I signed a few forms, and we were done.

I came home and logged into my PayPal account and entered the card number of my cheque account card in the area that was asking me to verify my PayPal account. I also had to enter three other digits found on my card – a handy little illustration on PayPal shows you exactly where these three digits are on your card.

What showed up on the screen on PayPal then was that I must wait for my next bank statement from FNB and I would see a 4 digit code next to where PayPal had taken just under $2 (about R14) from my FNB cheque account. The instruction also said that I would then come back to my PayPal account and type in that 4 digit code and the just under $2 would be refunded back into my FNB bank account. I got the pin (4 digit code) a few days later (on my FNB statement next to where PayPal had made the small withdrawal from my FNB account) and entered the pin and got an email to say I was now a verified PayPal user!

Not quite done.

I logged into my FNB account and went to the area on the left (within “accounts” section) and clicked “PayPal services.”

I still had to link my PayPal account to my FNB bank account. There were five easy steps – actually four because the last one just says “now linked” or something like that.

I clicked the first one which was about saying yes, I want to link my account.

The second one was click to say send an OTP number.

The OTP number was immediately sent to my cellphone and I then had to enter the number at that step on my FNB account in front of me on the computer. You don’t have to go searching for where to go – the linking process just takes you from one step to the next.

Then it was enter my email address that is my PayPal email address too, and then FNB emailed a code to me. Copy and paste it into that step section.

Next step was to log in to my PayPal account (from the link provided during these steps on FNB.)

On the PayPal page I was taken to I just had to click “next” or “continue” (can’t remember now) and then the next page I landed on was back on the 5 step linking procedure page on FNB and number 5 was already complete, saying I was now linked!

All sorted.

I do hope my step by step explanation of the procedure of linking PayPal to your FNB account help all South Africans who keep putting off doing it because it sounds difficult. It’s not.

A blog post on Chris M’s iMod blog entitled Is PayPal South Africa everything we hoped for? – that I found helpful.

Now people in South Africa can join online sites that pay only via PayPal – and can earn some extra income. Unfortunately some sites that seem nice for earning extra income online are only for residents of U.S.A. but because South Africans can now receive monies via PayPal at least there are a whole lot more online income opportunities available to us that weren’t before.

Here is an online writing site I belong to that pays only via PayPal – this online writing site is free to join:

Factoidz

This following online writing site that also pays only via PayPal might also be of interest to you:

Fortitude – a daily magazine for being human.

Read this article about the different ways you can make money at Fortitude.

Please also browse through this site for other ways and ideas related to working at home, or visit my Make Money Writing Online website.

Go get that PayPal account and get it linked to your FNB account!

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