Removing / logging out of linked PayPal account

[saracen_cat]

Whenever I make a purchase I am offered the option of using PayPal. It seems to be logged into the PayPal account still, because I don't have to enter the PayPal password. How can I remove this?

I made a one-off eBay purchase for my teenaged daughter, using her PayPal account. I am worried that I will accidentally pay for my own future eBay purchases from her PayPal account.

I expected to be able to do this from My eBay / Account / Payments. But the only thing listed there is my bank card.

Thanks for any help!

[tobiasd4]

I think you need to log into PayPal and change pre approved links, I.e. Ebay.

[saracen_cat]

Thank you for the suggestion!

I have now found the PayPal list of authorisations on the PayPal account, but eBay doesn't appear in the list. I have just asked on the PayPal community forum too, to see whether anyone there knows how to do it.

By the way, when I searched the PayPal forum archive, it seemed that several people had had problems a few years ago with PayPal authorising payments without asking for a password. It appeared to have been a PayPal glitch. So it could be that too.

[tobiasd4]

PayPal authorise devices and regular people you pay, so you don't have to login every time.

It's not a Glitch.

You can remove it, I just can't remember without searching PayPal. 

[saracen_cat · Accepted solution]

I've just figured out a way to achieve what I wanted to do, but it was far from obvious!!

On eBay, when I was about to make my next purchase, I selected the option to pay by PayPal and then clicked "Pay with PayPal". At the top of the confirmation screen, I then clicked on the PayPal account (my daughter's initials) and chose "Log Out".

It was not necessary to actually complete the purchase in order to log out of PayPal in this way, so one could do it without making a purchase.

[saracen_cat]

Yes, that's what I thought, but when I'm on my PayPal account, eBay is not listed under Authorisations, so I can't think where else it might be.