I have a little side hustle that has been gaining a lot of traction in the last few weeks. Normally, I have one or two clients a month, billing each of them 300/500€ a month. I do this by sending them a PayPal request that they can ‘pay as a guest’ so they don’t even need an account.

However, in the last two weeks, I have billed just over €2000, and it seems PayPal has decided that now is the time to start messing me around. The fees that I am paying are eye-watering. On my last order, I paid 6% in fees, and they decided to freeze half the money because I was ‘over my limit.’ I never made over 1800€ before so I didn’t know I that was my limit. I have requested to increase my limit but that will take 3-7 days.

Can anyone recommend a better way for my clients to pay?

More things that might be relevant- I am selling a digital product/service so there are no tangible/physical goods and my clients are all over the world- USA, Australia, Thailand, UK, Brazil etc… I have a legal business and I pay tax on all my income.