Paypal Business Account is NOT a legal procedure. When you talk of a legal procedure for starting an online business, that involves:

- registering your business with your county if you are starting a sole proprietorship. Business registration procedures vary by state, and some like Virginia is so easy you just have to pay the filing fee and put in your assumed business name

- file with the Secretary of State if your business will be a corporation, partnership or LLC

Paypal Business account is merely a way to accept payments — it is not a legal requirement. Here is the process for signing up for a business account with Paypal

You will pay fees with Paypal for payment received and here’s their pricing

Paypal is simply a way for you to get paid. Its a pyment system to process fees you would charge your clients. To read more about it, or enroll for a paypal business account go to.
There is no charge, they make a percentage of all payments that come thru them, but in order to maintain business account status, which has lower fees than standard, you have to run a certain amount of transactions thru there a month.

Go to

Paypal.com

It will explain everything to you