How to Get Paid by Preply in Japan

I have finally had the opportunity to make this happen in the last month and it is worth discussing. As I have previous mentioned Japanese Paypal is not a useful tool for most transactions and I just do not recommend it at all to anyone for any thing.

However, if you are working with Preply for online teaching options, you may not have a lot of alternative options for how to receive your money. 

When you have finally earned some kind of money, you can go to the payout screen. In order to receive your payout, you have to perform an account verification that includes taking a picture of your passport followed by taking short videos of your face from different angles. Surprisingly, this really doesn't take very long.

Then you can have the money minus Preply's 30% cut of your earnings and any fees required by whichever service you choose. Here are the services available.

Wise, PayPal, Skrill and Payoneer are the four options available with Preply but not all of them work everywhere. 

According to the Wise website, Japanese yen is an option for accounts within Japan, so it seems it can work for people here.

Skrill on the other hand does not even work in Japan and has the land of the rising sun on its non-serviced countries list.

PayPal, as I have said before, has serious issues. If you have a PayPal account from back home that you set up outside of Japan, it will work well if you want to use the money you make on Preply online. That's what I did and it worked quickly and easily.

Payoneer has a Japanese language website, so clearly it can be used in Japan, so that is another option.

Each of these companies takes a different cut of the money coming through and has different minimum amounts, so checking for which one works for you might take a little extra time. The minimum withdrawal amounts range from 0 for PayPal to $20 plus fees for Payoneer. The percentage of total charged as a fee ranges from 0.6% on Wise to 2% on PayPal. The website that explains this data gets confused on Payoneer, which either has a flat $1 transfer fee or a flat $3 tranfer fee depending on which part of the page you are looking at.

It might be a good idea to check these things out to make sure you can be paid before putting time and energy into acquiring students on a website like Preply.