How To Create an Invoice Using PayPal & Request Money

10th Aug, 2017 Harsh Agrawal 9 Comments

So far all Indian Freelancers and Online marketers are aware of latest PayPal issue. Now here is a quick solution to the problem of $500 limit. This tip is for all those who are into freelancing. Since we can’t accept payment of $500 at one go and solution is to explain your client about this issue, and ask them to send money by breaking amount into lower than $500.

Now to make your and your client work easier, you can always use PayPal request money feature or better PayPal Inbuilt Invoicing system. Many of you who are not aware, you can use PayPal to generate free invoice.

How to Use PayPal request money feature?

In order to request money using PayPal, login to your PayPal account and click on Tools> Invoicing

From here you have two options:

Request Payment or Create new invoice.

Clicking on request payment will take you to a screen like below:

Though, I recommend you to prefer creating & sending invoice as it looks more professional. Now’ let’s look at that:

How to generate Invoice using PayPal?

Now above tip is basically the most easiest way to request money. But if you want to be more professional, you should start using any invoicing system. PayPal has an inbuilt feature which can be use to generate invoice and request money at the same time.

Now click on create invoice & this would take to PayPal invoice creation page (Direct link)

PayPal invoicing system has lots of features which will help you to create a professional online invoice. Once you are done, send the invoice to your client and he/she can pay directly following the link in the Email.

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Do let us know if you have used PayPal invoicing system before and which one is best PayPal alternative according to you?

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Authored By Harsh Agrawal

A blog scientist by the mind and a passionate blogger by heart ❤️. Fountainhead of ShoutMeLoud (Award winning blog), speaker at various international forums.Life motto: Live while you can! Teach & inspire while you could & Smile while you have the teeth.

Thanks for sharing this, article.
I still wonder why did paypal came to this sort of conclusion, may be its not well established in India and for Indians internet users.

I certainly hope Paypal and RBI will come up with a better solution to this limitation soon!

Its a real shock to all paypal users. Hope to see some alternative soon. There is no fault of rBI here.

I think we should leave PAYPAL and cehck out alternatives like ALTERPAY and all

I like to bill my clients that I freelance write for using Freshbooks. It is free to invoice up to something like three clients and then a small monthly fee after that if you have more.