Why does Paypal make it so difficult to track account information completely

I own a business which takes Paypal transactions, both through eBay and through my store. I am also a Quicken user and use Quicken's one step download to quickly and easily get all of my financial information in one place. Not just for Paypal. Paypal has never been consistant on the method that they have used to supply account information. Changing catagories. Changing transaction types and never supplying . unless you dig deeply, the transaction fees seperate from the gross. Sometimes I see the gross reported. Sometimes I see the net.  Hidden .30 transaction charges. Spurious information regarding whether a transaction is available. All of these items should be line items and easily referenced to the transaction. As a business owner I am acutely aware of the importance of keeping accurate records and having this information supplied without a consistant method is both inconvient and time consuming. I am forced to sort by hand through a muddle of data in an attempt to balance an account that should be very simple.  I have to think that there is some bad blood between Intuit and Paypal since they can't even agree on a connection protocol. Intuit products connect to your account web page and actually scrape the data. This is asinine. Discuss  

kernowlass wrote:
No, of course you are not a scammer, but would you not welcome anything that would make paypal safer? I think it takes a lot longer to show up in US accounts ie about 2 days but in the UK it is only 2 hours normally. But even if it was a few days i would rather have a payment from a genuine verified buyer who has linked their bank account than risk withdrawing funds > finding the payment reversed and my account in negative. Personally, I wouldn't welcome "ANYTHING" that makes PayPal "safer." Do you work part-time for FIFA? I am in the US. I am a consumer, not a seller or business account (although I have been, very, very early on & I am a verified buyer sand seller.) I have three credit cards and two bank accounts attached to PayPal. I have thousands of dollars in PayPal credit available to me. Yet if I want to send my daughter $200.00 it has to wait 3-5 days. I use other instant methods to transfer money to my daughters. Frankly, I have always considered it a US "Banking" law. If PayPal made money available instantly it would be evidence it would be acting as a bank and not a "funding service." But that is only my opinion, NOT a researched fact. As far as banks in the UK making funds available in 2 hours, I am very surprised. I used to do business with a Midlands pottery and cashed Barclay's "cheques" in my US bank, which cleared in 3-5 days, which is quite reasonable. Then I traveled to the factory and received a check for services rendered (less than £500.00) and I took it to a Barclay's down the street and they wanted me to open an account and wait a week! I had a passport, US military ID and a US driver's licence as identification. In the US, if you take a check to the bank it was drawn on, they will cash it with proper ID. (Of course I haven't tried this since the 90's. Maybe things have changed in the US and UK banking laws.)

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