How to Pay for Hosting with PayPal

PayPal is available for international customers paying in USD — the US, UK, Europe, and elsewhere PayPal operates normally.

If you are in Pakistan, PayPal is not an option

Worth stating plainly at the top so nobody wastes time on it: PayPal does not operate in Pakistan for receiving payments. This is a PayPal restriction, not something we can work around, and it applies to every business in the country.

Pakistani customers have four methods that all work well and all bill in PKR:

• JazzCash — see our JazzCash guide
• Easypaisa — see our Easypaisa guide
• Direct bank transfer
• Visa or Mastercard — billed in rupees, so no foreign transaction fee

If you are in Pakistan, use one of those. The rest of this article will not help you.

Paying by PayPal

1. Open your invoice and choose PayPal 2. You are redirected to PayPal to sign in 3. Check the amount and the recipient before approving 4. Pay from your PayPal balance, a linked bank account, or a card held in PayPal 5. You are returned to us and the invoice is marked paid

You do not need a PayPal balance. PayPal will draw from your linked funding source if the balance is short.

Include your domain name

If you send a PayPal payment manually rather than through an invoice link, put your domain name in the note field.

PayPal payments arrive with your PayPal account name attached, which is often a personal name rather than anything that identifies the hosting account. Without the domain we can see the money and not know whose it is, and matching it by hand takes far longer than it should.

Paying through the invoice link avoids this entirely — the reference is attached automatically. Prefer that route where you can.

You do not need a PayPal account

PayPal allows guest checkout with a card in most countries. Choose Pay with Debit or Credit Card on the PayPal screen rather than signing in.

If you are going to use a card anyway, paying by card directly is simpler and avoids the extra redirect — see our card payment guide.

Currency

PayPal invoices are issued and charged in USD.

If your PayPal account is funded in another currency, PayPal applies its own conversion rate and may add a currency conversion fee. That fee is PayPal's, not ours. You can sometimes choose to let your card issuer handle the conversion instead, which is occasionally cheaper — PayPal offers this at the confirmation step.

Automatic renewal

You can set up a PayPal billing agreement so renewals are charged automatically. Renewal reminders still arrive 30, 15 and 7 days beforehand, so an automatic charge is never unexpected.

Cancel a billing agreement from your PayPal account settings under Automatic Payments at any time. Cancelling it does not cancel your hosting — tell us separately if that is what you want, or the invoice will simply go unpaid.

Refunds

Refunds are returned through PayPal to the account that paid, normally within 3 to 5 working days. We cannot refund a PayPal payment to a bank account or a card directly.

Our money-back guarantee guide covers what is refundable.

Common problems

• "This recipient does not accept payments in this currency." Pay in USD, or let PayPal convert at the confirmation step.
• Payment sent but the invoice is still open. Almost always a missing reference on a manual payment. Send us the PayPal transaction ID and your domain name.
• Payment held or pending. PayPal occasionally holds a payment for review. It clears on their side, usually within a day. Tell us and we will hold the account open rather than sending a reminder.
• You are in Pakistan and PayPal will not work. Expected — see the top of this article.

Message us on WhatsApp with your domain and the PayPal transaction ID if a payment does not show up against your invoice.