I learned of a new feature in PayPal today by complete accident. I normally login and move money from my PayPal business account to my business checking account. A few days ago, I forgot I logged in, and this morning noticed funds had moved out. When I called PayPal, they confirmed that indeed it was me (embarrassing), but they told me that PayPal has an auto-sweep feature that would do this. They enabled it on my account so it shows up under the Financial section of my Profile. I never knew PayPal had this ability, and wanted to share my belated discovery!

If you only need to sell a few items from your website or collect different sums of money (like I do on my payment page) you could use a PayPal Buy Now Button to accomplish this. You’ll need to have already set up a PayPal Business/Merchant Account before watching this tutorial video.
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