How to Create Paypal Account in Pakistan and What is Paypal

What is 'PayPal' ?

PayPal is an electronic commerce (e-commerce) company that enables transfer of funds among parties via online funds transfer. PayPal lets customers to set up an account, which is then linked to a customer's credit card or bank account for verification. Once the account is verified, the customer can also begin sending or receiving funds to and from other PayPal customers. PayPal tries to make online purchases safer by imparting a form of fee that does not require the payor or payee to disclose credit card or bank account numbers.

How to Create and Use Paypal Account in Pakistan?

PayPal isn't available in Pakistan but there are people who are achieving this task and you can do it too by implementing one the following two techniques.

• First:

• If you have the ability to travel to Dubai, open a bank account and simply signup from UAE. This is how 90% of the people who are using PayPal in Pakistan are doing it. They use their Payoneer card to validate the signup, but the payout is on the UAE bank account (which is now allowed by PayPal). It takes about 3,000 Dirhams on average to open an account in UAE with Internet banking access.

• Second:

• Go to Paypal site and sign up a for personal account. Write your info but don't write your original address of Pakistan, instead input a random address of USA or UAE. You can use some googling for finding random address from internet by google's help. Your account is created but you still need to verify it via the address or bank account. As you have not wrote your address of Pakistan you should verify it via bank account. In this case, you will make an Payoneer account which is available in Pakistan and link you Payoneer account with Paypal. When you link your Payoneer account with Paypal your account will be fully activated and functional for transactions. You can also get a free debit card from payoneer.