{"id":2132,"date":"2020-04-10T15:49:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T15:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helpdesk.privatily.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=2132"},"modified":"2025-06-18T15:39:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T15:39:38","slug":"how-to-create-paypal-business-uk-account","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/helpdesk.privatily.com\/?article=how-to-create-paypal-business-uk-account","title":{"rendered":"How to create PayPal Business UK account"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/privatily.com\/PayPal\">Privatily.com\/PayPal<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Select Business Account and click Next<\/li>\n<li>Answer the two questions depending on your business, if you don&#8217;t know what to choose, select &#8220;Not sure..&#8221; and click Next<\/li>\n<li>Type your email (it has to be an email that has never been linked to PayPal before) and click Continue<\/li>\n<li>Type a Password and click Continue<\/li>\n<li>Enter your First and last name, Your company name and your local phone number for the business address enter your company registered address which can be found here:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/beta.companieshouse.gov.uk\/ go and search for your company name, and you are going to find your company registered address.<\/li>\n<li>Check &#8220;<span class=\"Checkbox__label\">I have read, consent and agree to PayPal..&#8221; after reading it, and then you can click Agree and create account.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Set Business type to Private company, search and select the category of products you sell, if you don&#8217;t find yours, select &#8220;Variety Stores&#8221;<br \/>\nCountry leave it as United kingdom<br \/>\nCredit card statement name: type your company name (Your company name has to be less than 11 characters, it&#8217;s fine if your company name is longer than that, just type the first 11 characters)<br \/>\nClick Continue<\/li>\n<li>Enter your Date of birth and your Nationality<br \/>\nAnd click check on <span class=\"Checkbox__label\">Same as business address<br \/>\nClick Continue<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Answer the two questions depending on your business, if your company is just created: select &#8220;No&#8221; on the first question and No on the other question too.<br \/>\nClick Continue.<\/li>\n<li>Click on your name and set the Ownership percentage to a value: usually 100 if you own it all by yourself, click Save and then Submit.<\/li>\n<li>Read carefully and if you agree click &#8220;Certify and Submit&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>A confirmation email will be sent to your email inbox, check it out and click Confirm your email.<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[49],"article-tag":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-2132","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-accounts","article-tag-paypal","article-tag-paypal-business","article-tag-paypal-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpdesk.privatily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/article\/2132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpdesk.privatily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpdesk.privatily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpdesk.privatily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpdesk.privatily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helpdesk.privatily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/article\/2132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365,"href":"https:\/\/helpdesk.privatily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/article\/2132\/revisions\/2365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpdesk.privatily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpdesk.privatily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Farticle-category&post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpdesk.privatily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Farticle-tag&post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}