Mass Payment Overview
Save time, send everyone's payment at once
Pay up to 5000 people in just one click
No monthly fees – pay only when you send a payment
Web upload
- Upload your list of recipients to PayPal
- Send the payments with one click
- Recipients get their money quickly
API
- Create the payment file
- Call the Mass Payment API
- Get an Instant Payment Notification
How much does it cost to send a Mass Payment?
You pay fees only when you send a Mass Payment.
Key benefits
Why spend time writing checks? Send a Mass Payment instead.
Convenient
- Send payments to multiple recipients at once.
- Send payments to recipients in different countries and currencies.
- Faster and easier than writing checks.
- Recipients get paid quickly online.
- Track payments easily.
Cost-effective
- Pay fees only when you send a payment.
- Free for recipients.
- Competitive pricing for domestic and international payments.
Flexible
Here are some of the many ways you can use Mass Payment:
- Affiliate commissions.
- Customer rebates.
- Pay-to-surf rewards.
- Employee benefits.
- Survey incentives.
How it works
Before sending money to a group, please contact PayPal Customer Service or your account manager to make sure your PayPal account is eligible.
1. Add money to your PayPal account
When you're ready to send a mass payment, transfer money from your bank account to cover your payment.
Or you can set up an automatic transfer to your PayPal account to save time.
2. Create a list of recipients Learn More
Include the following information in a text file like Notepad, or a tab-delimited file like Excel.
- Email addresses for up to 5000 recipients.
- Payment amounts and currency.
- One currency type per file.
3. Upload the file
Log in to your PayPal account and upload the file.
4. Send your payment
After you review your payment information, just click Send. You receive an email when the payment is complete.
5. Your recipients get paid
Your recipients receive an email to let them know you sent a payment.
If they don't have a PayPal account, we include instructions on how to create a PayPal Account so they can receive the payment.
You can use the recipient information stored in your database to send automated payments to up to 250 recipients.
1. Set up the payment file
Make sure to include the email address for each recipient, the payment amount, and the currency code.
2. Call the Mass Payment API
You can set up an API call to send a payment to up to 250 recipients.
Go to the Mass Payment API page to learn more.
Fees and currencies
Competitive pricing for payments and currency conversions
- No set-up fees.
- No monthly costs.
- Recipients don't pay fees to receive your payment.
- Senders pay a small fee for each transaction.
Automatic currency conversion
When your recipient's currency is different from your own, we automatically convert your payment at competitive rates.
For more information about where payments can be received, see the PayPal Worldwide page.
Fraud protection
Fraud protection on every transaction
All Mass Payments benefit from our industry-leading fraud protection and powerful 128-bit SSL encryption.
Reports and logs
Simple recordkeeping for all payments
Email confirmation
You'll get an email to confirm that your payment was sent.
Online records
View your payment history securely and conveniently in your PayPal account.
Downloadable logs
Export your transaction history to Excel, QuickBooks, or Quicken.
Or, use our Instant Payment Notification APIs to pass your payment status directly to your accounting system.
Reports
Keep track of all your payments, refunds, and sales activities with a variety of reports:
- Summarized settlement.
- Financial summary.
- Transaction details.
- Daily sales summary.
You can get all your reports easily from your PayPal account.