How to get paid without a website: Payment Links from PayPal

What is a Payment Link?

A Payment Link is a URL or QR code. When customers click on the URL or scan the QR code, they instantly see a PayPal-hosted checkout webpage where they can pay for products or services.

Whether you’re offering your dog-walking services or selling your best tomatoes at the farmers market, you need a fast and simple way to accept payments without the headache of creating and maintaining a website. That’s what Payment Links do.

Share Payment Links with customers where you meet them: in-person, by email or text, and even on social media. You don’t need technical knowledge or a website.

Who should use Payment Links?

Payment Links are for you if you’re a solopreneur, freelancer, or owner of a growing business without a website to receive payments.

For example, a teacher offers tutoring to students during summer break. Instead of spending time and money building a website with e-commerce, the teacher can use Payment Links.

Once a tutoring session is scheduled, the teacher can simply text or email a Payment Link to the parent, or let them scan a QR code in person to pay. The parent can use the payment method that’s convenient for them (such as a card, PayPal, Venmo, or Apple Pay). The funds are available to the teacher as soon as the payment shows up in their PayPal account.

Payment Links are also ideal for anyone who sells via social media. A career coach who markets their services on social media can send a Payment Link to a customer via direct message to pay for a coaching session. The coach can also place Payment Links in their social media bios and posts. The links give customers an easy way to buy extra content like online courses and ebooks.

With Payment Links, all your sales channels become checkout opportunities. In fact, merchants have been shown to experience a 28% increase in sales after implementing Payment Links alongside their existing payment options.¹

How do Payment Links work, and how do I get paid?

If you can log in to your PayPal business account, you can create and share Payment Links in seconds–and get paid quickly. Here’s how:

1. Create or log in to your PayPal business account.
2. Select “Payment Links & Buttons.”
3. Choose the product or service you want to sell.
4. Add images and descriptions to showcase your products and services.
5. Easily add and manage product variations, like colors and sizes.
6. Set a fixed price. Or let customers name a price.
7. Add a tipping option if that’s relevant to your business.
8. Your Payment Link is automatically generated and ready for use.

Congratulations! You just created checkout for your business!

Once you have the Payment Link from PayPal, you’re ready to get paid. Share the link through email or text, or on social media. When customers click on the link (or scan a QR code for in-person payments) and complete the transaction, you’ll be paid within seconds.

What are the benefits of using PayPal Payment Links?

Payment Links are a flexible, adaptable tool for growing businesses. Here’s why Payment Links make payments easy for you and for your buyers:

Get paid quickly and easily

• Accept payments in more than 200 countries and in 25 currencies.

• Let customers pay with PayPal, Venmo, Apple Pay, Google Pay, credit or debit cards, flexible installments, and more.

Get your business growing

• Create links and send them to customers for free, even if you don’t have a website. Check out our video for step-by-step instructions.
• Sell around the world, almost anywhere. Through social media, email, or text. Or in person with a QR code.