If you've set a Buy It Now price for your item, you can require the buyer to pay you immediately using PayPal. You might use this feature if you're selling a time-sensitive item (for example, concert tickets). You must meet certain seller and postage requirements and the listing must include any related costs, so your buyer knows exactly how much to pay.

How it works

• You can use the immediate payment feature with any selling format (Online Auction, Fixed Price, Store Inventory), as long as your item has a Buy It Now price.

• If you have an auction-style listing, both the Buy It Now button and the immediate payment requirement disappear once a bid is placed (or once a bid meets your reserve price). In that case, the listing becomes a regular auction-style listing, with the item going to the highest bidder.

• Listings with the immediate payment feature must offer PayPal as the only payment method. This includes auction-style listings that end with a high bidder.

• If the listing reaches its ending time before any buyer has completed payment, then no one wins the item and you can relist it.

Requirements

To require immediate payment for your item, you must:

• Have a PayPal Premier or PayPal Business account when you list your item. (Go to PayPal to upgrade your account.)

• Have an eBay seller account in good standing.

• Specify a Buy It Now price of no more than SG$5,000.00.

• Specify postage costs and include other related costs such as insurance and taxes, so your buyer knows exactly how much to pay.

Note: If you do not want to charge a postage and handling fee, you can enter "0.00" in the shipping and handling box. You can also enter "0.00" for the postage cost of each additional item.

• Always post to the buyer's credit card billing address address listed on the PayPal transaction details page. You may want to put this requirement in your item description or postage and payment information.