PayPal, Freelance, frozen transfer and account, require checks?

Question

Freelance

He started teaching programming lessons to children from the USA. Parents agreed to pay using PayPal.
Until that moment, there was no PayPal account, no experience of working with foreigners either.
After the clients transferred the money, I went to the PayPal account. There was no money added to the account, but two notifications appeared:
1. " Account . At the moment, the functions of your account are limited. To restore full access, provide additional information by clicking on the button below." Passport has not been validated. I sent a photo for confirmation. There are no questions with this.
2." Access to your account is temporarily restricted ..We have detected significant changes in your account activity. To better understand what is happening, we need to get more information from you. " Here again they asked to attach a passport photo, but they also ask for a sales receipt from the supplier.
What should I attach as "Sales receipt from the supplier"? My tax receipt as self-employed?

Answer 1

Yes any check

Answer 2

PayPal in Russia works differently than in the rest of the world.
Look, you can have two accounts: personal and business.
A personal account is opened and confirmed simply - you just need to register and link your bank card. Immediately after that, you can pay online for services / goods of any sellers that accept PayPal. However, I will emphasize what exactly to pay. Another thing is if you want to receive payments on PayPal, for example, from UpWork, PrePly, Fiverr, etc. After receiving the first payment, PayPal will block your account and ask you to verify your identity. This will happen if you received an amount of more than 15,000 in ruble equivalent. The lock is removed simply - you need to increase the account level to "Verified". However, this status is obtained easily - you upload a scan of your passport and wait from a couple of hours to a day. The new status gives you the opportunity to keep up to 600,000 rubles on your account.
Here I must emphasize that you cannot receive recurring payments on PayPal from other users of the system. The system allows you to accept a certain number of payments per month from other users to your personal account, but there is either a limit on the amount, or on the number of payments. As soon as you exceed it, they block your account and give you an ultimatum: either an increase to a business account or money in 6 months to a bank account.
If you want to regularly accept payments from people to your PayPal, then you need to open a business account. It opens longer, somewhere within a week, but this is the only way to legally accept payments on PayPal in the Russian Federation. To open it, you need to open an IP and a cash account in a bank. You cannot add a personal card to a business account. The restrictions here are the same - 600,000 rubles on your account, you can’t store more, you have to withdraw it to the bank.
However, there is one peculiarity here - you cannot receive payouts from Upwork, PrePly, Fiverr, etc. services on a business account. Withdrawal of money from the sites is possible only to a personal PayPal account.
Now, let's move on to the most interesting point - can a self-employed citizen, who is not an individual entrepreneur, accept payments using PayPal. The answer is no, it cannot. A self-employed person cannot open a business account with PayPal and therefore cannot use this method to receive money from customers. I talked to them about this issue in June 2020. Then I was directly told in support that the status of self-employed is still too new, they don’t know what to do with them. For accepting payments from other users to a personal account, I will get a ban very quickly, and they do not open business accounts for business entities in this status.
The only way for a self-employed person without an IP to work with PayPal is to use an intermediary in the form of 2checkout.com, but connecting to them is not fast (I have 3 weeks busy in June 2020), and besides, they bite off 5% from each payment as deposit for 90 days.
I assume that you started accepting payments to a personal PayPal account opened for an ordinary individual, and hit just that ceiling in terms of the amount or number of transactions. In this case, I recommend that you send them the invoices that you sent to your clients as checks and communicate additionally with support on this topic. Most likely, even if you are blocked, they will very strongly recommend opening a business account.

Answer 3

Remember. Always, when working with countries of the 1st and 2nd world - make an invoice. At least sculpt it yourself in Photoshop, but do it.
Even in the same paypal, you could make an invoice and issue an invoice for payment. Then there would be nothing.
And yes, upgrade your account from "nobody" to "verified"