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How to file an EDF for a PayPal payment

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A PayPal receipt shows who paid you and what reached your balance. You still choose the service code, and you add your own name and address before the form is ready for the bank.

Which PayPal page is a receipt

Use a merchant receipt: a page that shows money received, a transaction id, and either “sent by” or “payment received from”. A buyer page that only says thanks for paying is not an incoming export receipt.

Two layouts are common. The older page lists who sent the money, a fee, and a total. The transaction-details page lists a gross amount, a PayPal fee, and a net amount. On that second page the net amount is the figure this site puts on the EDF, because that is what was credited.

Amount, payer, and your own details

PayPal’s fee means the gross and the net differ. Confirm with your bank whether the declaration should follow the invoice you raised or the net credit. If the only record is the receipt, keep the invoice number, date, currency, and amount consistent with the line you put on Part 2B.

The receipt names the payer and often a shipping address. It does not name you as the exporter. Type your name and address yourself. Those details stay in this browser for the PayPal form. They are not your dashboard exporter profile.

Choose the Service Accounting Code for the work you actually did: software design, consulting, design, advertising, hosting, or video production. The goods-and-services note on the PayPal page is not a SAC code.

Third party, deadline, and filing

PayPal is the third-party payer. The overseas client is the service recipient. Record both. Mode of realisation for a normal balance credit is “other”, not a letter of credit, unless you really collected against one.

File within 30 days after the invoice month. Services other than software may be filed on or before the payment date. Foreign currency is due in India within nine months of the invoice date, or twelve months when the invoice or settlement is in rupees.

Give the signed form to the bank named on the inward remittance advice. Free EDF prepares the PDF in the browser and does not submit it.

Related guides

  • What to enter in Part 2B of the EDF

    Goods use Part 2A. Services use Part 2B. Each overseas recipient you invoiced that month gets a line, and the header of the form still identifies you and your bank.

  • SAC codes on the EDF for freelancers

    Part 2B asks for a Service Accounting Code, the same family of code used on a GST invoice. The bank’s purpose code is a different label, and it is not a column on the form.

  • EDF filing deadline for service exports

    The filing clock starts from the invoice month. Realisation is a second, longer clock. Both dates changed with the rules that took effect on 1 October 2026.