Remove invoice limits

[adruml]

Please could you arrange for sellers to be able to send an invoice with more than 99 items on it?
I realise it will not be of importance to many sellers but sellers of collectibles do sell more than 100 items on occasions.
Thank you

I believe the limit is put there because PayPal won't accept more than 100 items on a payment.

However it can be a right pain and should be addressed. If any PayPal limit can't be overcome couldn't the invoice just list the first 98 items and then have a single composite item with a caption, say, "A further n items not detailed:"

That could confuse the buyer. It also means more PayPal charges.

Actually its not that simple.

I sold 254 stamps to a new eBid member.

The system only produced an invoice for the first 99 items.

To calculate the total invoice price (so that I could create a PayPal invoice) and produce a picking/packing list, so that I could identify which stamps he had bought, reqired me to create a basic Excel Spread Sheet.

It was very time consuming.

Sorry if this seems like a silly question(s).

Is this for Pay Pal invoices, eBid or both?
Doesn't Pay Pal charge based on $$$ amount of items not quantity of items?

I'm trying to understand the dilemma so please be patient.
If you send for example (MPS) scenario 2 invoices for 99 items and 1 for 56 items, wouldn't the buyer (once logged into Pay Pal) pay all 3 invoices at the same time/same transaction?

[madelaine]

Paypal charges a seller 3.4% + 20p per transaction. (uk) So additional invoices will each increase the fee paid.

(it wasn't a silly question)

[tony41]

If a person sells 100 or 100 stamps.
Invoice for 50.
A second invoice for the second 50.
Easy as Pie.

Your usual facile unhelpful reply.

[tony41]

Thanks for the backing from you all. I hope someone in admin is reading this thread.
It does seem to be a case of the tail wagging the dog that Paypal can dictate how many items eBid can put on an invoice. Paypal is only a payment method, after all.

[adruml]

Paypal charges a seller 3.4% + 20p per transaction. (uk) So additional invoices will each increase the fee paid.

(it wasn't a silly question)

Thank you. Is this an issue with eBid invoice, Pay Pal invoice or both?

[madelaine]

I don't know for sure - I don't know whether there is a limit on the number of items on a paypal - I can't see one in the paypal help section.

It does seem to be an issue with the eBid invoice. Of course, if it is a paypal problem, this is not the place to ask for a change.

[adruml]

I don't know for sure - I don't know whether there is a limit on the number of items on a paypal - I can't see one in the paypal help section.

It does seem to be an issue with the eBid invoice. Of course, if it is a paypal problem, this is not the place to ask for a change.

Reading #14 it sounds like an eBid issue.

Should be corrected immediately. For those affected you may want to contact support rather than hope eBid sees this thread.
My opinion it's not a glitch or suggestion but a flaw in the system.

[gazza]

PayPal place a limit of 99 items per each individual payment. We are forced to use this limit due to this.

Thx,
Gazza

[madelaine]

Couldn't you compress the invoice so paypal don't see that it is for more than 99 items? gazza?

[HaleysComics]

I would think that for seller & buyer protection it would have to show each item that was purchased.