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Paypal MassPay is what everyone already uses. %2 transaction fee, capped at $1. Dwolla is a bit cheaper, but the price difference is meaningless in most cases. This just brings Dwolla closer to feature parity. I pay about 100 people using the paypal masspay api every quarter, and I wouldn't even consider allowing Dwolla unless they had this feature.

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Paypal Masspay has been discontinued. If you don't have that facility already enabled, you cannot make mass payments

See this email from paypal when we tried to enable it: ------------------------------------------------------ Thank you for contacting PayPal regarding mass payments.

Mr X the mass payment facility is no longer available, the information is kept on the web site, purely for the benefit of customers who have already had this facility activated.

I apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause.

PayPal MassPay is defn available. Issue is, is that you have to ask to have it turned on today. Looks like the mail you got is inaccurate. Get your self a premier or business account, get it verified, then call up PayPal CS.

Paypal only lets you send in up to 250 rows, right? We've set that to 2,000 - and also uncap it for trusted users... At 250 records, the fee difference might not be much, but at 2,000 - it can quickly add up to a nice sizable sum, don't you agree?

With a CSV. You can do as many as you want via the API.

I am confused. Paypal charges the fee per transaction. running mass pay 1000 times with 1 transaction is the same price as running it 4 times with 250 transactions. Paypal lets you run as many total transactions as you want. The max batch size is 250.

PayPal MassPay charges per trxn.

PayPal MassPay API: 250 trxns max per call

PayPal MassPay Manual CSV upload: 3,000 trxns

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