I have a merchant account w/ PayPal but I do not have a website. (I used to have a website available through one of my suppliers and I used the PayPal shopping cart on that to receive credit card payments from my customers when they made a purchase) but now I have changed my business and want simply to use paypal to e-mail my (brick and mortar)service business customers an invoice that they can pay on-line using paypal and have the security of knowing they don't have to give me their credit card numbers or they can use a bank account to pay if they don't have a credit card and I don't want to take a check and not know if it will bouce or not.

Please explain at 'dummy' level of understanding! I go into merchant accounts and can't figure out what I need to do! (BTW I know how to sell on the on-line auctions, etc. as again it's all done for me with a Pay Now button. But I want to generate my own invoice and send it in an e-mail.) Hate calling Paypal (it is at times a 'language barrier' if you know what I mean)

Once you sign into your paypal account, you can "invoice" the customer. They will receive the invoice via their email. The email will contain a link which they click to sign into their paypal account, and, hopefully, pay.
Money is transferred from their account to yours. I hope this was useful. :)

paypal - invoice sent by mail (http://www.frontpagewebmaster.com/m-374292/tm.htm#374292)

PayPalDev.org - PayPal Developer Support Forums (http://www.paypaldev.org/)

From you home page, the 4th tab to the right is Merchant Services. Under Manage Payments, clear down near the bottom of the list is Send Invoice.

And I certainly can't blame you for not wanting to call them. :-)

From you home page, the 4th tab to the right is Merchant Services. Under Manage Payments, clear down near the bottom of the list is Send Invoice.

Boy! THAT was easy. THANKS SO MUCH!