User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Mass Payments User Guide
- Contents
- Preface
- Mass Payments Overview
- Using Mass Payments in Your PayPal Account
- Using the Mass Payments API
- Mass Payments Reporting
- About Mass Payments Reporting
- Using the Reports Dashboard to Review Mass Payment Transactions
- Using Account History to Review Mass Payment Transactions
- Viewing Transaction Logs
- Downloading History Logs
- Receiving Instant Payment Notifications for Mass Payments
- Using the Settlement Report and the Transaction Detail Report
- Best Practices and FAQs for Mass Payments
- Mass Payments FAQs
- Is there a fee to send Mass Payments?
- How much money can I send?
- What countries can receive Mass Payments?
- Can I send money in different currencies?
- How do I confirm the receipt of payments?
- How do I cancel an individual payment?
- A recipient told me that payment was not received. What could be the problem?
- What does it mean if a mass payment is “Processing, Denied, Processed or Completed” in my transaction history?
- Mass Payments FAQs
- Currencies and Currency Codes
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Preface
About This Guide
The Mass Payments User Guide describes how to use the PayPal website and the MassPay
API to send Mass Payments, to search for Mass Payment transactions, and to view summary
and detailed Mass Payment information.
The following table summarizes the contents of this guide.
Intended Audience
This guide is for merchants and secondary users who log in to PayPal accounts for a variety of
set-up and administrative tasks.
Revision History
The following table lists the revisions made to the Mass Payments User Guide.
Feature See
Frequently asked questions “Mass Payments FAQs” on page 37
MassPay errors “MassPay Error Codes” on page 25
NVP API “MassPay API Using NVP” on page 23
Reporting “Mass Payments Reporting” on page 29
Sending Mass Payments from the PayPal site “Using Mass Payments in Your PayPal Account” on page 11
SOAP API “MassPay API Using SOAP” on page 22
Date Published Description
February 2012 Maintenance release.
February 2011 Updated currency information.
January 2010 New guide.