What follows was taken from a recent post in the Discussion forum. I had been wanting to do a brief article on using PayPal in our trade and this post gave me the opportunity to do it. For those of you who have not read the post, the thrust of it was "Why do we not require payment for our services up front?" While I do not usually require payment up front, I do sometimes require payment before I will deliver the work product. Here's my reply to the aforementioned post explaining why and how.