Do you mind if I repost this? Will give credit and link to this journal, but feel like you said it all really well and I've been meaning to post something like this up too!

I second this.

Please do!

Yea go right ahead! Spread the word

Reposted!

Thankyou!

gonna repost this :/ I didn't know any of that was even going on. I heard of people who weren't using real names on Paypal getting locked out but never getting banned for furry art.

Love your icon!
But yes I know a few people who got banned because they were selling or buying furry related art through paypal and paypal is just now punishing users who dont provide tracking information when there is a shipping address attached x.x If you have too many transactions with no tracking info attached you will get banned for suspicious activity.

thank you! :D I loved how my little Akinna turned out in it

And thats so stupid.... I've been seeing artist looking into different payment options but I don't see many buyers wanting to use anything other than paypal

That's stupid. This is why I utterly hate the media. It's all big fat stupid lies and people r so stupid, they HAVE to believe the very first thing they hear.

Are you using normal paypal account or are you using business paypal?

Business :3

Thank you ^_^ That was quick XD

there is a minor thing here: when using paypal app, you do not get the option to say "no address needed", so people need to keep that in mind.

Really? What the heck how awful! Why would they punish users if their app doesnt even give them an option to opt out of a shipping address

oversight probably.

Thanks for the info. Never using my phone app again : P

If enough people file tickets about it, we might get it changed.

Also reposted, this is imporant info. As long what paypal is.

Thankyou!

I'm going to repost this as well!

Thankyouuu

Not everything on the buyer's end actually allows you to write 'no shipping needed' but you do have the option as the seller to go in and mark things as 'no shipping needed' after each transaction, you just have to keep an eye out for it

*ETA* Sometimes I have to do it after something is accidentally marked as 'shipping required' or they didn't have the option, it doesn't take long :o

How do you go in and change it? :o I dont do invoices I use the paypal.me

Under business account go to the tab that says 'ready to ship'
Under each one of them, mark as 'shipped'

It will bring you to this screen http://prntscr.com/lgjqvm mark as order processed and double check that 'tracking information is not required'

Same thing for personal account! It will have something marked as 'urgent' or 'needs attention' and you do the same stuff there :)

Got it I'll start double checking ever transaction. Thankyou!

I was just about to comment the same thing.
after I saw this journal i remembered I had tons of "needs attention" so i contacted paypal and he told me to do the same thing. Now it's all sorted out c:

THANK YOU! This is super usefull!!I shall go double check mine now, so i can mark them all processed and no tracking needed, it was driving me nuts when i could not find it before! curse of having english as second language, finding things can be hard!

I wish there was a way to send invoices where customer can opt out of shipping address.
However, for business tax reasons my country needs to know/proof where my customers are from (if they are from Japan, I need to add additional tax, if they are outside then I don't need). ^^;

Thats interesting. I dont do invoices, not sure how it works! I usually just use paypal.me

I like invoices, because you can write your TOS into the terms field, and start with "buy paying this invoice you, the customer, agree on these terms of services".
It gives little bit of peace of mind to actually have proof, that someone accepted your TOS (not just say they did read it before commissioning).
Also, customer can't add any notes to invoices. So you can control all the bad keywords out from the transaction.

I've always done that anyway, kinda like a common sense kinda thing for me so no one gets banned

I seriously doubt PayPal gives a crap. My picture on there is literally my fursona. And I've had to contact them when I had an issue with my account. They've seen my user picture. I've been using PayPal for almost a year, and have never had a problem with them like this. Should you be careful, sure. But I doubt they'd have issues unless you do something to convince them to do something about your account

Thats not true it just happened to  hypnotickitten

My picture is my fursona, too.

Oof, reposted. But I do love invoices, so I second that! I use them for my writing commission work. paypal.me is super easy, too, just less detailed.

I had no idea! We'll have to walk on egg shells.

I've sent PayPal invoices, before. I think that would solve all your problems.

Invoices are the way to go, it's a good idea to have control over what's written in the notes for transactions. Luckily I saw a Tumblr post about the PayPal shipment change that can really screw people up. I would have ignored that "needs attention" if I didn't.

I really hope PayPal doesn't actively start looking for artists to ban. I know Patreon had a lot of trouble earlier this year with adult art payment processing. They moved processing overseas so it looks like there is no convincing PayPal of allowing adult art if a site as big as Patreon struggled.

It seems people have gone out of their way to target anything with sexual content in the last few years. Pretty scary time for adult artists.

Thats why I personally prefer working with artists that use invoices, as they tend to have more control over the details themselves.

Reposted! Thank you for writing this out, honestly I've been meaning to share something similar for a while with my watchers. c:

I tend to expect the artist to invoice: the artist is familiar with this already, and it makes it easy for the customer to do the right thing

I readed about pp alternatives, but I'm not sure if people would use them :<

Reposted, dear.

Thank you for sharing this! ;n;

*** cross posting this from another journal that apparently reposted this.



As much as I want to agree with this, a lot of this info is outdated or just wrong?
I've never heard Paypal banning people from selling furry art or referring to themselves as furries in general, seeing as a lot of
suit makers do furry art just fine without fear of being banned. The only people that I've seen banned recently were people who
don't use their real name on their paypal account ( which is against their TOS ) so make sure you put your legal name on an account
that acts essentially like a bank. Paypal does have a problem with NSFW art though since it's considered"pornographic material" and ever
since the sex worker laws that passed sites have been cracking down. Generally, it's a good idea to send out invoices instead of letting customers
pay via your paypal.me or sending as goods + services. That way you can make a template, link to your terms of service, say its a digital good and
you control what's actually entered in the invoice( so customers can't put THANKS FOR THE PORN in the "description" box n' stuff ). Not only that, if you
are a professional freelancer, invoices can be organized cleanly so you know exactly who is who and what they ordered.

As for the shipping, Paypal did away with the "no shipping needed" box, so it's not actually an available option to put in your invoices anymore
and customers paying goods & services option are forced to put in their billing address no matter what. ( I've heard from many people that they can't find
the no shipping box entirely, maybe they added it back in the last update a couple weeks ago?? but I haven't seen it ).
If your scared of being iced for not shipping items correctly, after every finished commission I do, I go to the invoice and mark the invoice as "shipped"
with no shipping address tracker needed. That way it's processed and tells Paypal it's been delivered.

I've been using Paypal for a very very very long time and have been through all it's dumb UI and policy changes and trust me I would be the first to say
that Paypal isn't really good when it comes to digital good sellers. But unfortunately, neither is any other company on the market right now so we just gotta deal

TLDR : Paypal won't ban you for being a furry, please for the love of god start using invoices and stop sending as just goods + service
EDIT 1: I realized the TLDR sounded mean I didn't mean to be LMAO I just know that invoices have saved my life and have actually helped me win a wrongful chargeback once so!!