Hubstaff supports automatic and manual payments through PayPal.
This guide is for organization owners looking to connect their PayPal accounts to pay their team. If you are a user and want to connect your PayPal account to get paid, please see this guide.
PayPal
Follow the steps below to set up your PayPal payroll account:
Required steps before setting up:
- Ensure the PayPal account is set up as a business account and that payouts are activated.
- Fund account (it cannot pull funds from a bank account or credit card).
- USD funds are needed in the PayPal balance.
Requesting PayPal Payouts Activation
For a list of supported countries click here.
- Navigate to https://www.paypal-support.com/.
- Click the Contact Us button.
- Log in to your PayPal (Portal) account. If you don’t have a portal account you can click on “Log in with PayPal” to activate your portal account.
- Fill in these details on the questionnaire, then hit the Submit button.
- Sample email message to PayPal:
Step 1
Navigate to Financials > Manage payroll.
Step 2
Click on the PayPal button. For users who already have other payment merchants connected, click on Manage integrations.
Step 3
You’ll be taken to the initial setup page. Once you’ve met the criteria for the setup, click the Connect button to continue.
Step 4
You’ll be asked to log in to your PayPal account. After successfully authenticating, click on Agree to continue.
Step 5
If you have an existing PayPal Classic integration, you’ll be asked to migrate existing payroll members into the new PayPal integration. Click Migrate members to continue.
Step 6
You’ll be taken back to the PayPal integration page where you can see all team members who are part of your PayPal Payroll. To add a new member to your organization’s payroll, click on the Add member to payroll button.
Step 7
Click on Actions > Edit to configure each user’s payroll:
- Pay Period – lets you choose when payments are processed.
- Weekly: Every org week start date.
- Bi-weekly: Every other org week start date (There is an option to choose the Start on date)
- Twice per month: 16th and 31st of the month
- Monthly: 31st of the month
- Pay Type – can be set to Hourly or Fixed payments.
- Require timesheet approval – linked to the timesheet approval feature.
- Pay Rate – the amount you pay your team member.
- Bill Rate – the amount clients can be billed.
- PayPal Email – member’s PayPal email where they will be paid.