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by codegeek 3849 days ago
Actually with Paypal, you can use something called MassPay using their API.
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Thanks for that.

Is that something you can do with just a simple individual account? Or is this something you need to upgrade your account for? If it involves upgrades, does it have monthly fees? Does it require a business account?

Found a couple of overviews, but I don't see all of the above questions readily answered:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_batch-payment-ove...

https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/mass-payments

Good question. For Mass Pay API, you actually need a business account. I don't think there is any extra fee though other than the usual transaction fee that paypal charges.
Thanks.

The links I posted suggest the sender pays a fee upon use of MassPay, otherwise, no. There is no extra fee. Though I don't have a business account, so I don't really know what that entails.