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It’s a little awkward that paypal does not provide a “user friendly” way of calculating their fees. Anyone remotely capable of simple math can do it – but still. Let’s say you want to transfer a certain amount of money between two paypal accounts from one EU country to another.

x = amount that needs to be sent
y = amount that is to be received
a = fees in percent
b = fix transaction cost

So the after a simple transformation you get the formular you need

    y = x - x*a - b
<=> x = y + b / (1 - a)

Or you just head over to a third party paypal fees calculator.

17. November 2008 | paypal