Are you wondering how to make a PayPal account in Pakistan? Well, then you should go through this complete guide to know the best possible way for you to create a PayPal account. Here, you will find the best possible ways you can use to get a PayPal account for yourself.
The Pakistani Government invited PayPal to start its services in the country. PayPal rejected the offer. The reason to invite PayPal to Pakistan was to facilitate the freelancers and SME’s working in Pakistan.
According to some reports, Pakistan is the 4th largest freelance community in the world and Pakistani freelancers bring around $1 billion to Pakistan via different sources. Moreover, Pakistan has 200,000 freelancers and 7000 registered SME’s. So, it clearly states that a lot of people will get benefit from PayPal if it comes to Pakistan.
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Benefits of PayPal
PayPal is the simplest and fastest way for transferring of money and buying online. Moreover, many websites set their preferred payment method as PayPal. So, it comes with plenty of benefits that we will mention below:
- Speed: PayPal gives its members to transfer money instantly. Its members can transfer money into bank accounts in less than 24 hours.
- Flexibility: It enables sellers to get payments from buyers easily and quickly.
- Affordability: PayPal transfer fees is affordable for many people. The fee to use PayPal is 30 cents for each transaction, plus 3% of the total amount you are about to transfer.
- Acceptance: Many e-commerce website uses PayPal as a payment method. So, you can easily get benefit from many websites around the world through PayPal.
Sign Up for PayPal
The following are the step to sign up for your PayPal account:
- Open the PayPal website.
- Click on Sign Up for free.
- Click on the Personal Account or business depending on your needs and then click on the “Next”.
- Enter your email address and create a password. Choose a strong password so that nobody else can access your PayPal account.
- Enter a valid email address because you have to verify your account.
- Now fill out all the information required to create PayPal account.
- You must have a valid address of any country where PayPal is operating because PayPal does not operate in Pakistan.
- After filling all the relevant information, you need to confirm your email address. If you don’t confirm your email address then you will not be able to receive payment.
- You can confirm your email address by going into your mail.
- Click on “Yes, this is my email” button in the email message to confirm your email address.
Create a Payoneer Account
Payoneer is an online money transfer service in 200+ countries with 150+ currencies. So, it makes Payoneer widely acceptable over the world. Below are the steps to make Payoneer account:
- Open Payoneer website.
- To create Payoneer account, you must have an email account if you don’t have then create your any email Account.
- After that Click on the “Sign Up Now” to Apply for Payoneer Account.
- Now fill out all relevant information.
- You need to enter your email address and choose a password for the account.
- After that fill out contact details like your city name, zip code of your city.
- Enter the mobile number and click on next.
- Your account will be created and you just need to confirm your email address.
Apply for Payoneer Card
You have successfully created your Payoneer account. Now, you need to apply for Payoneer card in order to get payments from Paypal. The steps are following:
- To apply for a Payoneer card, you must have a valid bank account.
- You will be required to enter your IBAN (account number).
- Now type user name and password.
- Select a security question
- Now enter your CNIC and click on the order
Application for Payoneer card is sent. Now, your card will be approved in 1 to 2 days and shipped within 3 to 4 weeks.
Activate your Payoneer Card
You have to activate your Payoneer card now. Here are complete guidelines on how to do so:
- Login in to your Payoneer account.
- Enter your user name and password.
- Click on “Login”.
- Click on the “View your status and activate your card”.
- Then, click on Activate.
- Now click on Card Activation.
- After that enter your 16 digit card number and choose 4 digits secret pin.
- Now click on agree to the cookies policies.
- Click on the “Activate”
As PayPal does not operate in Pakistan so you will need a bank account from the United States to get verified PayPal Account in Pakistan. This is where your Payoneer account comes into play because it allows you to send or receive funds through PayPal.
Payoneer is an online transaction making company and you can link its account with PayPal easily.
You have Payoneer Debit Master Card which allows you to withdraw funds from any ATM of Bank Alfalah, MCB Bank, Standard Chartered Bank & Faysal Bank.
Link Payoneer Account with PayPal Account
Here comes the most important step in this guide. You have to follow these steps carefully in order to get PayPal account:
- Open the PayPal website.
- Login in to your PayPal account.
- Now enter your email address and password
- After signing in your PayPal account, click on “Link a bank” option on your Account Summary page to get started.
- If your bank is listed then you just need to enter your online banking login information to automatically link your account.
- If your bank is not listed then you need the account number and routing number.
- To find account number and routing number of Payoneer account you need to login into Payoneer account.
- Activate option of US Payment Service.
- Now click on “Receive Money” option.
- After clicking on US Payment Service, you will find Routing Number and as well USA Virtual Account No.
- Now enter that Routing Number and USA Virtual Account No in your unverified PayPal account.
- After that, you will receive two small deposits that will be sent to your Payoneer account by PayPal. You will be able to see those deposits after 2 to 3 working days.
- After receiving deposits sent by PayPal and log in again into your PayPal account.
- After signing in you need to put the same amount that you received on Payoneer account into your PayPal account
- Your PayPal account will be verified automatically.
This is the only legit way to get your payment account in Pakistan. However, scammers will tell you to give them money and they will give you PayPal account. So, don’t fall into traps.
If you can afford to travel to Dubai, USA or any other country where PayPal has its operation then you can create a PayPal account. Just open a bank account in Dubai and simply signup from there.
Xoom to Get Payments
Xoom is PayPal Service that enables users to electronically transfer funds and allows its users to send money, pay bills and reload mobile phones from the United States and Canada to 131 countries.
It is a money transfer service owned by PayPal which has its operation in Pakistan. When the Pakistan Government was collecting donations for building two dams in October 2018, they used Xoom as well to receive donations from people.
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At The End
Now you know all the steps to create PayPal account in Pakistan and you also know how to withdraw funds from PayPal account in Pakistan. If you’re a freelancer or just starting a company that will sell its services or products internationally then Payoneer is your best bet.
