Full details here, but here’s the gist. If you get an email from PayPal telling you that your API certificate is expiring (or about to expire), but when you go to the appropriate page and discover the renewal button is missing, delete your expired certificates. The renewal button will then (hopefully) appear, allowing you to renew your API certificate.
Why am I telling you this? The answer is, I am not telling you this. I am telling the exasperated person down the line who will encounter this problem, and then discover that PayPal can’t be arsed (pardon my British) to clearly explain what to do. I found the above link only after seriously looking for it, so clearly it needs a signal boost. We’re all Bozos on this bus.
I got some other emails from PayPal this week rendering them all but dead to me. At best criminally sloppy.
Your own mileage may vary. I’ve switched my Patreon over to direct payment to you instead of them.
Meanwhile Paypal is going out of their way to encourage people to cancel their account due to their recent policy changes of stealing from their customer. Their stock is down 6% today.
Citizen,
PayPal has fined you 2,500 credits for insufficient enthusiasm regarding Teela-O-MLY’s recent “Things of Power”.
Yeah, that bit has had some personal fallout, alas.