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How do I receive money through PayPal?

With PayPal, you receive money when someone sends a payment to your email address or mobile number. Once that happens, we'll send you a message letting you know that you have money available.

You can access the money you receive on your PayPal account home page. You can then choose to:

To accept the money, you'll need to open a PayPal account and confirm your email address.

To add an additional layer of confidence when receiving a payment, we now provide the sender of funds the option to share a link directly with the recipient that the recipient can use to access and redeem their money.

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