Yes, you do. The simplest means to manage multiple buyers and sellers in an online environment is, we believe, through PayPal. We are aware of some of the criticisms of PayPal and we review other options for facilitating payment regularly.

If you don't already have an account, see the Folksy guide to setting up your Paypal account (this includes preferences for the correct postage settings).

Accepting other forms of payment

While you must have a PayPal account to sell on Folksy and this is a required payment method, you can also accept card payments through Stripe (read how to set that up here).

We don't currently allow payments to be taken through methods other than PayPal and Stripe.