Gregory's Serverif you do NSFW art, especially as commissions, keep them on alts accounts/galleries/sites. don't discuss or link to paypal on those alts. ever.
juggling multiple accounts can suck, but paypal doesn't give a shit
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here's the actual summary of what they're changing, but it would be naive to think they haven't been doing this for a long time already now you just can't sue them for it i see a lot of people recommending stripe as an alternative and while stripe doesn't actively look for reasons to ban people for TOS infractions, they also do not actually allow their platform to be used nsfw/adult content transactions as per their terms of conduct basically you're gonna have to get used to be as vague as possible when discussing your business in public, and keep all the details between you and your client basically you have until sept 19 to scrub your accounts and figure out your smut alts and clean up the wording on your invoices so that there's absolutely no way an interested party could draw a direct line from your adult content and your paypal account or you can try your luck with another service which will likely either not be available in as many countries, or be less trusted by clients, and also likely doesn't allow NSFW (stripe, square, cashapp) IF YOU USE PAYPAL AS A CUSTOMER/CLIENT, especially for NSFW, you are not safe either. you can also be banned if paypal figures out what you're paying for with their platform if you're sending payments via a paypal link or directly to a username, do not ever mention what it's for. especially nothing indicating it's NSFW ask the artist you're paying to send an invoice instead. and don't talk about commissioning lewd shit on public accounts, and if you do, don't link/mention paypal this is an example of one of my invoice templates on paypal. this is about as much detail as you should ever include on an invoice, and you can put less if you choose to, down to just the price total and nothing else i'll add some specifics, like a character's name, if i feel it helps the client's comfort level or if there's multiple characters i'm charging for, to keep an itemized list of what's being paid for, but that's it |
when you take commissions, get the client's email, the details, and send the invoice. do not ever mention the nature of what you're getting paid for beyond the barebones basics. even language like "spicy", "lewd", "adult", "mature" could set off paypal's NSFW alarms and get you locked out of your shit, and unable to access your money
ALSO if you use paypal, never leave money sitting in your account. they are not a bank and if they get you, that money is gone