Dave, I’ve been happily using Paypal as a merchant account and shopping system for years now, and would like to turn on a few of my colleagues to this fast and simple system. If possible, I’d like to get some sort of commission or referral bonus. Does Paypal offer such a thing?

Paypal has what they call their Merchant Referral Bonus program which is what you’re talking about. It’s a bit hard to find, but you need to log in to your Paypal merchant account and click on the Merchant Tools tab.

On the top right of that screen, there’s a link for Merchant Referral Bonus called “learn more”. Click on that and you’ll be presented with a URL that you can then encourage your colleagues to click on when they go to sign up for their own Paypal merchant account.

By way of example, my link is
https://www.paypal.com/us/mrb/pal=BWVS9V5HS79XJ and if you click on it
and sign up for a merchant account, I’ll receive…

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