Some freelancing platforms like Freelancer and Upwork provide their own payment system, but they do charge some amount of money.
An alternative way for this is opting 3rd party payment systems like PayPal, Pioneer, etc., and PayPal is the most popular of all of them.
While creating a Paypal business account, we need to choose some details which is related to our business. For example, Product or service keyword.
What Product or service keyword we can choose for Freelancing services?
Freelancing is not limited to single or 2-3 keywords. There are multiple types of services that freelancers provide. Each service has different keywords.
Product or service keywords on PayPal for a Freelancer will be based on the Freelancer's Work.
So, let's check each of them and decide which is perfect for your freelancing job!
PayPal - Product or service keyword for Freelancers!
There are a lot of fields where we can do freelancing like Writing, Graphics and web design, SEO Services, Software development, etc.
First of all, find in which industry your services lie. There are a lot of service industries in Freelancing.
But we're taking the most famous areas:
- Writing
- Graphic Designing
- Web Designing
- Software development
- Video editing
- Photography
- Virtual Assistant
- Copywriting
- Accounting services
- Proofreading
- Language interpretation services
- Videography
- Digital Media Marketing
- Customer Service
- Counseling
Now we'll see which Product or service keywords you can use for the above freelancing areas.
Most of the Freelancing areas come under the Computer and internet-related work or data processing-related industry.
So, most freelancers can choose Computer Programming, Data Processing, and Integrated Systems Design Services as product or service keywords.
If the freelancer is providing Advertisements for companies or people, then they can choose Advertising Services.
Here's the detailed table which will help you to choose the right category as per your work.
| Freelancing areas | PayPal Product or service keywords |
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| Content writing |
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| Photography and related services |
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| Graphic Designing |
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| Photo Editing |
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| Web Designing |
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| Software development |
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| Video editing |
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| Virtual Assistant |
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| Copywriting |
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| Accounting services |
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| Proofreading |
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| Language interpretation services |
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| Videography |
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| Digital Media Marketing |
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| Customer Service |
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| Counselling |
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| Data recovery services |
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If you didn't find your areas of work, then you can simply put Business Services as your Keyword.
If you want to explore all the keywords available in the Paypal Product or service keyword list(MCC List), follow this link.
FAQs:
What product or service keyword to choose for Transcribe services as a freelancer?
If you provide transcribing services like converting someone's speech or audio files into Text or written script, you can choose any one of the following keywords:
- Recreation Services
- Quick Copy, Reproduction, and Blueprinting Services
Both options explain that you're recreating something like written scripts, video, music, or audio.
In our case, we're recreating the audio into digitally or physically written script or text.
Conclusion
What we've discussed in the above guide is our opinion on what PayPal business account option to select for your business in 2024.
It may vary from person to person, you can choose any one from the above suggestions for freelancers.
All the options are available in the PayPal service and product keyword dropdown list and are updated as per the latest list in Jan 2024.
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