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The clause creates a categorical eligibility distinction between business and personal account types within PayPal's transaction framework, limiting the transaction types that business accounts can receive while maintaining bidirectional sending capacity for certain transaction categories.
Business account holders operate under a restriction preventing them from receiving personal transaction payments, while retaining the ability to send personal transactions to eligible recipients. This mechanism establishes separate receiving capabilities based on account classification.
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"Business accounts are not eligible to receive 'personal transactions', although they may send personal transactions to friends and family with an eligible PayPal account.— Excerpt from PayPal's PayPal User Agreement
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The clause creates a categorical eligibility distinction between business and personal account types within PayPal's transaction framework, limiting the transaction types that business accounts can receive while maintaining bidirectional sending capacity for certain transaction categories.
Business account holders operate under a restriction preventing them from receiving personal transaction payments, while retaining the ability to send personal transactions to eligible recipients. This mechanism establishes separate receiving capabilities based on account classification.
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