Do you read your PayPal emails?

[paypalrb]

I have a question for anyone using PayPal to accept payments: what do you do with the emails PayPal sends you every time you receive a payment?

- Do you automatically sort these emails into a certain folder?
- Do you open the emails and read them?
- Do you just delete them?

What would happen if changes were made - for example, adding or removing some information from those emails?


Also, do you ever see emails from PayPal that are not payment notifications? (If PayPal sent a notice about a problem with your account, would you notice?)

Thanks in advance for your replies.

[RetroNetro]

I usually mark them as read and put them in the folder I keep them in.

[Ted S]

Invoice emails are just another form of proof that you have received funds... like with any invoice they get filled. It makes a great backup should paypal or my accounting software ever have a hiccup.

[beley]

I keep all the official receipt emails for transactions, but delete any account or generic emails I receive because there is so much "spoofing" with Ebay and Paypal emails. You never know what's real and what's not until you click the link. Even though I'm not quite stupid enough to think an IP address is a valid PayPal website, it's still dangerous w/ viruses and browser bugs.

[Dan Grossman]

Yes. As I replied on WHT, yes. I need the item number in the subject, a link to the transaction details in the mail. If you take these away you add 100 times more work to my day. Your "search" function does NOT work correctly (put a number in and search for item number get no results.. but it's the same "item_number" returned in IPN and "item number" in the e-mail). And searching by name/email are not reliable.