Yes guys! Finally PayPal supports Sri Lanka. I don’t need to remind you how things sucked without it. But I was wondering why didn’t anyone Blogged about it yet? Didn’t you guys know? It’s been a week now. Am I the only one who needed it? I’m sure I’m not. 
-SeeJay
Here’s the email I got the news
When you signup for PayPal, you can start accepting credit card payments
instantly. As the world’s number one online payment service, PayPal is the
fastest way to open your doors to over 86 million member accounts
worldwide.
Best of all, it’s completely free to sign up!
PayPal
June 12, 2007 at 2:45 am
i absolutely didn’t knew! Thanks for the info!
June 12, 2007 at 3:39 am
Welcome!
June 12, 2007 at 10:33 am
Mate, They opened up to Sri Lanka and 80 plus other countries for sending money via paypal, in April this year. Are you talking about the same thing?
Or are they allowing us to collect money to PP in Sri Lanka, and redeem through local bank accounts?
Pls send me their press release on this
land.like.no.other@gmail.com
June 12, 2007 at 10:59 am
https://www.paypal.com/row/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-approved-signup-countries
Here we go. Sri Lanka is still in their “Send Money to Anyone in the Growing PayPal Network”
So, we can’t accept payment through PayPal for collecting AdSense balance etc. All we can do is, use this as a payment method
You have to use a credit card to add funds to your PP account, and then send payments to others. It’s nothing different from using the credit card directly to pay online.
June 12, 2007 at 6:39 pm
Oh no! It’s different coz now we can upgrade our flickr accounts via PayPal. With CC’s It can’t be done except you have an Amex one. Anyways Yes That News was new to me
Oh just because you reminded Adsense doesn’t pay via PayPal not even in USA.
June 12, 2007 at 6:40 pm
It is a good start. So far we were in total internet finance darkness. But I don’t think our banking system will allow full paypal operation in to Sri Lanka that easy.
I remember the old Sinhala saying “Balla Piduru Kanneth Nehe – Kana Bonata Denneth Nehe”.
But at least now we can send money outside without wasting time in banks and filling 1001 forms.
June 20, 2007 at 10:47 pm
But still it sucks. You cannt collect funds to the account. Do any one know anyeasy way of opening a us bank account?. if you know please let me know.
June 20, 2007 at 11:30 pm
Hey guys!
Just because you are interested in the subject.
A friend of mine told me that PayPal lets us receive money after verifying the account and to verify you must give a valid Credit Card information to PayPal.
Can anyone confirm this? I don’t have a CC to confirm and entering dad’s CC info will definitely kick me off the 127.0.0.1
C.J.
June 23, 2009 at 10:14 am
Not really,
Paypay validates your account using a valid CC.. (Specifically to validate the country and the identity) it’s the normal process anyway. until you validate, you can not send money..
but we are still not allowed to Receive money through PP.
June 28, 2007 at 5:58 pm
Hi,
I was so happy to hear that PayPal accepts Sri Lanka. I just given a try but we cannot withdraw funds since we are in SL, we can only send money
I have an verified Paypal account from a freind in UK.
If you guys can have a good friend in paypal accepting country, just ask him to open an account for you, that is what I did
Bit risky though
Thilak
June 30, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Thilak,
can you explain it a bit more… I mean asking a friend to open an account for me and receiving money to a sri lankan account…
Is it opened in his name and would he be taxed for the payments received….?
Can I operate the account myself after he opes it and show a sri lankan account as the account to receive funds.?
If it is possible does it have to be a foriegn currency account.?
Atula
August 4, 2007 at 9:06 pm
hi there,
i noticed that you guys have been supported by Paypal finally. Congrats, you guys do know that you can only SEND, and not WITHDRAW right, unless you have a US bank account.
its very simple to get a US bank account, you can apply for VMI Maestro Debit card, which is a online bank located at US, and supported by PAYPAL. You can google this out and check for verification.
Now that can only mean one thing: you get the card, and you can withdraw !
Now, to get this card is quite simple. They are actually selling it on ebay/reseller/agent. the bank itself dont sell it themselves, as they risk competing with paypal debit card, (which is totally useless.)
Many of the reseller/agents too have stopped/halting any transaction and doing it in secrecy, as you guy would know that paypal is “slapping” anyone selling that card by blocking their account.
i got mine from a guy named foshwa . his email id is foshwa@yahoo.com and he is from Malaysia. He is actually a reseller and is selling this card to all Asian countries.
To buy from him would cost USD$35 plus cost of the card, plus registering(he will ask for it) and sending through priority email(FedEX). i got mine in 3 days in Singapore.
the best thing about him is that he accepts a lot of banks, singapore, india, malaysia and even online payment processor such as paypal, e-gold and so on.
He provides his company details, sends you an invoice, gives out his company address, and even his mobile+landline contact number.
once the card arrives, you need to activate the card from the official website, then set the paypal withdrawal setting.
Transfer the money to the VMI bank,and in3 days, you can withdraw straight from any local banks that carries Maestro/Cirrus logo.
hope this helps. even i did it this way. He too teaches another method, for second option, which is opening e*trade brokerage account, but this takes 1 month to get.
suthan..
Another Internet Marketer Like You !
for this help, visit my blog and comment, or buy me a beer..
haha. i could help you guys too, any details email me at my blog or suthan@gmail.com
September 23, 2007 at 5:52 pm
hi… can you get a Paypal debit card in Sri Lanka and use that in the ATMs there? How much does the bank charge to withdraw money this way?
November 27, 2007 at 9:30 am
hey i wanna know.. how do u get the cash transferd to ya bank account… i got about 40000 buks in ma pay pal account
November 29, 2007 at 10:29 pm
About VMI cards….
http://www.azrin.net/vmi-card-and-other-debit-card-warnings-for-paypal.finance.html
Atula
December 31, 2007 at 5:23 pm
does anyone know if India is a paypal accepting country?
January 5, 2008 at 8:44 am
yes. india is.
also according to https://www.paypal.com/worldwide/ sri lanka also should be able to “receive”. But I “know” Sri lanka can’t.
Since I am a paypal certified developper, I will be writing to paypal regarding this.
regards
-Thiwanka
February 27, 2008 at 11:58 am
I want to know if I can use paypal to send money from US to my family in Sri Lanka (free of charge)?
Thanks in advance
March 3, 2008 at 2:56 am
I had a problem sending money today. The first payment I made, went through without a problem, but the second payment was blocked for some reason! It wasn’t even expensive! It was cheaper than the first one! Anyway, I kept on getting this message that says “this payment cannot be funded with a credit card at this moment”. Has anyone ever had this problem before? I am trying to pay my seller but I can’t! I really don’t want to be given negative feedback on eBay. Please help!
August 9, 2009 at 6:59 pm
I send $3k to my daughter w/o problem. After that I started to send $2k to my son, but noticed they were charging me ~$60. Then I realized that they had blocked my bank account transfers, I would have had to use the debit card from the same account. They advertise free send to family and friends only if you use the bank transfer, then if you use their stated feature, they block you for future use. That’s FRAUD.
I kicked it up to a supervisor, then a manager. They are not allowed to fix it, are no longer allowed to get tech help with it, do not know that security algorithm that determines when a bank account is blocked, nor when, if ever, it will be unblocked! In other words there is no customer service when they choose to commit this fraud.
I later sent email to make sure it would get to someone at a higher level or tech level, who could help, and that I had already spoken with people on the third level. That was a specific, plainly spoken request, but all I got was absurd and idiotic responses from their low level people.
And THEN they have the gall to send me a link to give them a god rating on their service!!!
March 8, 2008 at 11:07 am
You can call the card issuing bank and make this sort out . I had the same problem
March 9, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Hey boys to receive money via pp to sl without following “parangiya kötté giya wagé” methods,just log on to http://www.xoom.com Do mail me ways 2 make money online This is Yasas ACMA
April 8, 2008 at 9:45 pm
I heard paypal are expanding their usability for Asia Region. It surely brings great revenue and bigger market for paypal users.
April 13, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Do not use http://www.xoom.com, My friends send money from USA through xoom , it take 25 days to get from Sri Lanka, it seems to they are keep transfered money in there account and make an interest on it, use western union instead of xoom, it’s fast and charges are same as xoom
May 8, 2008 at 9:53 am
Can customers transfer money ONLINE with westernunion ? Ie like paypal ? If it so it may b a good thing
June 2, 2008 at 6:13 pm
I accept payment from unverified paypal users (Sri Lanka only), If any one need help to withdraw money from your paypal account pls send me an email to: freecallconnect@yahoo.com,
July 25, 2008 at 5:39 pm
hello, I really want to know if we can withdraw money from Paypal to a local bank account here in sri lanka or a HSBC CC.
Please send me any information regarding this to myguitar_y@yahoo.com.
Thanks.
July 26, 2008 at 10:48 pm
hi,
Thing is, I have a seylan bank visa card, and I’ve bought stuff from ebay, but can I recieve payments for selling stuff on ebay? pls help
August 22, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Hi This is a great site ,I know this is not related to paypal but I have a one problem .Does anyone know how to transfer Google Adsense Check In Sri Lanka ?,What are the banks which transfer those checks?,How to transfer those checks? If anybody knows the answer
Please send me any information regarding this to in this comment section or mplgmg@gmail.com
Thanks.
August 22, 2008 at 4:16 pm
You can do it with any bank. Commercial bank took Rs. 300 to cash them.
August 26, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Guyz whats the best way to recieve money by selling stuff on ebay?
September 8, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Hi, dont get so upset on paypal. It s not yet available here in SL. Xoom also discontinued its operations to SL. I think only 3 ways. One, western union two, AlertPay or three, just do textile business at pettah. Singhalese,tamils,muslims all earning lucrativ profits. They kno nothing about paypal or online money !
October 12, 2008 at 4:31 pm
More than an year has passed since you made the original post, paypal even let’s you upgrade your account from basic to premier or even to business – but still you cannot recieve payments.
October 13, 2008 at 11:27 pm
No sir. I hav already been in the BPO industry in my own, with another 2 partners, an indian & an american. So I can receiv my share in anyway, be it alertpay, or 2co or money bookers, fastcash, bank deposits etc.etc. But recently I was told by a senior officer at the money transferring division of Sampath bank Head office, that Paypal still not operating fully (ie no receiving) in SL. Is it false ? Pls explain. Thanks in advance.
October 15, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Yasas,
I know that sucks but some how they think we aren’t worth supporting YET!
Nope! Paypal still doesn’t provide full functionality in sri lanka
October 15, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Seejay,
Even if pp fully supports in SL, I think s’lankans CAN’T compete in biz’s like BPO/KPO, bcoz our costs are VERY high. I’m goin 2 employ some UAE people for some new jobs. The required qualification 4 the job s ACCA/CIMA. I kno we hav a vast amount of CIMA people here. But beleiv me, people in UAE r CHEAPER than our ACCA’s and ACMA’s! Also can i use paypal 2 send salaries 2 UAE, which amounts to LKR 50000-100000/month ? Means sending at once, is it possible ? Pre-paid Thanks! Hav a nice day !
October 16, 2008 at 8:31 am
well you still cant recive money from pay pal. belive me. i have 50$ cash stuck in my paypal account. which i cant get.
paypal says the reason is our government doest take action for allowing paypal to recive money for sri lankans. so this is governments fault
October 16, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Yasas, Yes, I don’t think sending 1000$ a month would be a problem… Please let us know if you experience any problems…
otherwise we won’t have any jobs left here 
Btw hope IT guys aren’t that cheap in UAE
October 16, 2008 at 4:59 pm
But CJ, banks in SL says that I cant even use my c’card (via PayPal) 2 pay the salaries, unless they r ONLINE MERCHANTS like E Bay. ICICI, Sampath & NDB says I cant pay them in any way. Or to meet Mr. Ajit Cabral at Central bank for an special permission. People who earn foreign xchange r always treated like this here, but, Sakwithi’s r treated like Kings! Sometimes I think 2 leav SL. India s a gr8 (really) gr8 destination for BPO’s & KPO’s. There r billioners in these industries still in their 20’s.
November 6, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Even I wrote them several times but they keep on saying the old stuff. Today I wrote an article on this issue and a way to receive money to Sri Lanka.
http://mayuonline.com/receive-money-from-paypal-sri-lankan-context/
December 15, 2008 at 9:38 am
hey papal no support srilanka. can somebody give some suggestion for transfer money from paypal to srilanka.
January 8, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Thanx for the info. Does paypal send checks to srilanka.
I know than we can transfer money online, buy online.
I need to know abut that
January 27, 2009 at 12:15 am
If u want to buy online, then, use sampath webcard via paypal. It s not a big deal.
I guess, open a/c with 2co and apply for payoneer card. Then, receiv fees from paypal to your 2co and withdraw it using the card. Easy and speedy way. But you may incur about 10-12% as commissions. Reply me after testing it. Bye
October 13, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Sampath bank’s web card is a prepaid visa card.. we can’t withdraw money with that type of cards.. only deposits.
April 15, 2009 at 6:59 pm
I registered at paypal in 2007. But didn’t verify my credit card.
Should I have my cc verified to receive payments. I selected my coutry as Srilanka and gave the srilankan address. Is that a probs tooo
April 23, 2009 at 5:17 pm
May 21, 2009 at 5:46 pm
That is great news. I am coming to Sri Lanka to make money online and eat all the good food of Sri Lanka. Thanks for sharing. Peace!
September 11, 2009 at 3:04 am
Hi guys! Want to know whether any one has tried withdrawing money with cheques from paypal? or thier new debit card?
October 17, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Ok guys, it’s October 2009. So, does anyone know what the latest situation is on receiving money in Sri Lanka using PayPal????
For instance, if you sell something on e-bay can you receive the money using pay pal??? I understand that this has not been possible, but do not know the latest situation.
Can someone please update everyone on the situation???
Thanks!
November 10, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Hi!
r u sure that i can receive money via paypal?