Paypal makes it now impossible for foreigners and remote workers and digital nomads to acept payments. I have been selling 20,000$ a month for years in Thailand with Paypal, and now i have removed my card, withdrawn every penny, and removed bank, and paypal as payment method from all my online shops. I now use Stripe, whichb works with woocommerce for wordpress, and my Ecwid dot com stores as well as shopify etx. Stripe and Wise Payments are currently the only easy and viable methods to receive payments and withdraw to bank. Paypal hassled us all a year ago and then backstepped when everyone comlpplained that it is the only Paypal entity of all countries, which requires a Thai ID Card and company registration, and does not have the 'individual merchant' account.
Paypal explains it like this (nice way of saying 'we are stupid we are gonna lose you all to stripe and wise payments because we are a bunch of draconian slaves to the Thai Military dictatorship');
You will initially need to provide your full legal name in English, and your Thai national ID number (other forms of identification which do not have a 13-digit Thai national ID number, such as a non-Thai passport, work permit, non-Thai Identification card (pink ID), or Thai Permanent Resident Permit cannot be accepted). Other information may be required to enroll in NDID – please see item #8 below for more details.
You can complete the required steps via the PayPal mobile app or website. For a seamless mobile app experience, please ensure you're using the latest version of the PayPal app
Short answer; Find a new solution like WISE or Stripe, which also lets you accept debit, credit, apple pay and Gpay, and kick Paypal over the mountain range like beep beep roadrunner does to wiley coyote.. We should all take a class action suite against them, because the Thai Government actually WANTS digital nomads to come and work here and stay in a resort by the sea and spend their money here and live here. it is PAYPAL who have fallen behind, and they are basically now totally ducked because hundreds of thousands of foreign and local digital nomads who do not want to be spied on by the Thai Gov, cannot and will no longer use Paypal. Paypal Thailand failed once a year ago for same reasons, and they will have to backstep again this time
They froze 23000 baht in my wifes account because she didnt withdraw all in time, and won't collaborate to release it, not even on the phone asking for immediate deletion assistance and to transfer remaining funds to bank! They want to keep it! Thieves! Leave Paypal Alone in Thailand. Anyway WISDE are 8 times cheaper rates. And Stripe, if you have a wordpress and wocommerce, use shopify, wix or ecwid, is better than Paypal.
