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PayPal Overview

When you sell using PayPal, your buyers can pay quickly and conveniently using a credit card. And you get paid fast! You can send your money to your bank, or spend it online at one of the thousands of merchants who accept PayPal.

Sign up for PayPal today.

PayPal's many benefits include:

  • No set-up or monthly fees

  • Low transaction fees

  • Reliable customer service

    Use your current PayPal account to make payments in the following currencies:

  • Australian dollars

  • New Zealand dollar

  • Euro

  • Pounds Sterling

  • US dollars

  • Yen

  • Hong Kong dollar

  • Singapore dollar

  • Canadian dollar

  • Swiss Franc

  • Swedish Krona

  • Danish Krone

  • Polish Zloty

  • Norwegian Krone

  • Hungarian Forint

  • Czech Koruna

  • Israeli New Shekels

  • Mexican Pesos

Benefits for buyers

  • Pay sellers in over 103 countries from 18 different currencies.

  • Payment is automatically converted to your desired currency.

  • No need to hold a balance in another currency to send a payment.

Is PayPal safe?

The security of your information, transactions, and money is the core of our business and our top priority at PayPal. We use encryption technology and the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol to ensure that sales are handled at the highest level of security and privacy.

A message from our lawyers

The PayPal service is provided by PayPal Australia Pty Limited (ABN 93 111 195 389) which holds an Australian Financial Services Licence, number 304962.  eBay International A.G. and eBay CS Vancouver Inc. are authorised representatives (numbers 308318 and 326597) of PayPal  for the purpose of providing information about PayPal.  eBay and PayPal are not acting as your agents, are not providing personal financial advice to you and do not take your individual circumstances into account in providing information about PayPal.  You should consider the Product Disclosure Statement and Financial Services Guide before deciding to sign-up for or use the PayPal online payment service at https://www.PayPal.com.au

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