There is a quick money-saving tip for anyone who pays freelancers through Paypal. If you are a freelancer, you should tell your employer this.

Paypal has a batch interface (Paypal Mass Payment). Payments through the batch interface cost $1 per recipient. The minimum number of recipients is one, and receiving the payment is free to the recipients.

You just need to click a link and upload a one-liner text file:

email@example.com (tab) 100.00 (tab) USD (tab) any-internal-id-you-want (tab) Totally optional comment goes here.

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

So as a payment receipient, does this bypass the regular fees for receiving payments?

Thanks for that tip Patrick, I passed it to a friend of mine that does a fair number of these payments.

thanks for that, I always wondered why I was never charged a paypal fee for some of the payments I got

That's awesome. Thanks.

Ever tried moneybookers.com ? The charge less and are more secure.