receiving payments through paypal Merchant ID
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hi, i would like to know how to get payments from clients and advertising companies through my merchant ID
i mean i look through paypal and aside from having the buttons on one's site which will then redirect them to paypal i cannot see a way to send a business money without having the business email address
thank you all for your herlp in adanance
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The Merchant ID can only be used as the "business" variable value in your item button code or text (hyperlinks).
The intent of Merchant ID is a substitute for your PayPal email address in the item button code. In the early PayPal years, people were concerned about having their email address harvested from their web pages. As a result, PayPal came up with the Merchant ID.

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