echeques

[davidc4430]

can you set your payments to not accept echeques?

i prefer being paid when an item sells not 3 to 5 days later.

hadn't recieved one in a year of selling now have had 2 in 3 weeks.

[pennyforum14]

I think you can do it in Paypal in account settings, you can certainly select not to accept credit cards, so that the customer has to actually join Paypal to purchase (never really saw the point in that one).

[phorum_junkie*]

No you cannot exclude echeque payments and I cannot understand why you would want to. You may prefer to be paid straight away but as ebay effectively give the buyer 8 days to make payment the only way you can make sure you get p[aid straight away is to have immediate payment required which limits your customer base to those who have a card registered with their Paypal account.

[kopenhagen5 · Accepted solution]

As said you can't.

And PayPal will sometimes make it an echeque even if the buyer hasn't selected it.

Usually if a newish buyer has purchased a lot or large dollar amounts. (PayPal safe guarding themselves)

Sometimes the buyer is not even aware PayPal made it an echeque so I now send a message along the lines of,

(So they don't think I am slow in posting)

Thank you for your purchase and I noticed the payment was made by an e-cheque which can take 4-5 days to clear.

As soon as it clears your item will be posted the next working day.

[digital*ghost]

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@pennyforum14 wrote:

I think you can do it in Paypal in account settings, you can certainly select not to accept credit cards, so that the customer has to actually join Paypal to purchase (never really saw the point in that one).

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I looked into this a little while ago, because all off-eBay purchases don't qualify for seller protection unless the buyer logs into a PayPal account. so I wanted to check if there was a way to ensure payments outside of here came from registered accounts. 

Turns out the only thing you can do is - basically - "encourage" people to join PP after they use checkout as a guest.  

You also can't select not to accept credit cards, you can select to only accept credit cards, or credit card-backed payments, though, which does eliminate eCheques  (this setting is only applicable outside of eBay, it doesn't take effect here), but it also means you can't receive payments from buyers who have PP funds but no CC as a back up funding source (the reason I know this is because a seller I buy from regularly changed their settings to require CC funded payments, and I suddenly had to add one to my account in order for my payment to be accepted, despite having enough funds to cover the purchase several times over). 

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

Good advice all round guys.