Paypal offers you with different membership accounts and you can signup with any of these for free of cost but based on the account type you will be able to access the features. There are a total of three account types ie Personal, Premier & Business. Here are the details of each account and what benefits you get with each of these accounts.
Personal Accounts :
You can Send money to Anyone
You get 24-hour fraud surveillance
You get Customer Service availability
Limited Access to eBay Tools
Limited Access to Merchant Services
Limited Access to Accept credit or debit cards
Premier Accounts :
You can Send money to Anyone
You get 24-hour fraud surveillance
You get Customer Service availability
You get Access to eBay Tools
You get Access to Merchant Services
You get Access to Accept credit or debit cards
Business Accounts :
You can Send money to Anyone
You get 24-hour fraud surveillance
You get Customer Service availability
You get Access to eBay Tools
You get Access to Merchant Services
You get Access to Accept credit or debit cards
Extra Feature : Multi-user access which means that you can add multiple emails to your account under profiles with send/recieve feature for all of them.
In case if you are holding the basic account and are looking to upgrade your account to the Premier or Business account then you have to visit this link and notify paypal team to upgrade your account and allow you to access all the above listed features.
Does it mean that, to receive any kind of money (by selling themes or donation )I need to have a Premier Account?What type of account you have?
Paypal support is ridiculous. Many times I have suffered lot. They never gave a worthy answer to our queries…