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What’s up PayPal??

I’m now over two weeks behind in posting the finances for June — please bear with me, while I battle PayPal a bit. I’ve been using their export to QuickBooks feature to download the transactions for all the donations we’ve been receiving. But, for some unknown reason, that option is no longer available — only export to tab/comma delimited files, and QuickBooks can’t import those files.

I’d have to write a converter that takes CSV files and translates them into quickbooks files — something I am trying to avoid. Thus I am waiting for a reply back from PayPal about what’s going on.

If this is not resolved by next week, I’ll go write the script and get our finances back on track.

UPDATE: PayPal permanently removed this feature, with no explanation as to why — I guess we join the ranks of people who have gotten screwed by PayPal. I just wish they would’ve notified me. Grrr.

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9 Responses to “What’s up PayPal??”

badbone says:

July 19, 2005 at 3:08 pm

paypal swiped 100$ from me, customer agreed to 200$ refund & pp gave 300$ refund … customer bought item sold to 100’s of other happy users and after getting our unit went & bought competitor’s unit. they even had the gaul to send ours back in competitors box less $15 worth of parts.. pp santions suck actions at sellers expense… beware you can rip anyone off w/pp… bware…
redhunter says:

October 21, 2005 at 1:05 pm

I wrote this tool because Paypal’s export file was unreliable.

http://www.redhunter.com/software/paypal_quickbooks_import.htm

much more functionality than paypal’s IIF export, and it doesn’t skip a bunch of transactions like refunds etc.

Al
erde says:

July 13, 2006 at 5:27 pm

PayPal do some strange things latterly, but the tool is cool
CableGuy says:

October 24, 2006 at 11:22 am

Does anybody know why PayPal permanently removed this feature?
Mayhem & Chaos says:

October 24, 2006 at 11:31 am

Acutally the download to IIF is actually back, last time I looked.
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January 6, 2007 at 5:39 pm

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Braut says:

January 7, 2007 at 8:27 am

I think problem with PayPal is, that they are to big. Like other big companies in the internet business, they can do a lot without inform their customer… Imagine, if a automotive company will ever do something like this… the company will be blowed out of the market very fast.
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