PayPal launch Website Payments Pro
by Chris Dawson
PayPal have launched new facilities for merchants use on their own websites - Website Payments Pro. It gives greater flexibilty with more choice for buyers on how to pay even if they don’t have a PayPal account. Although the cost will be £20 per month PayPal are waiving monthly fees until 1st July 2007.
* Get features of merchant accounts and gateways at a low cost
* Customers shop and pay with credit cards directly on your website
* Customers can also pay you with credit cards via phone, fax, mail, or in person
* Use PayPal Manager as a central place to manage your transactions
Full details of Website Payments and Website Payments Pro are available on the PayPal comparison chart.
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[...] Actinic has partnered with PayPal Website Payments Pro and are offering to waive setup costs (£49.99 +VAT) for their Actinic Express product. PayPal Website Payments Pro are already waiving monthly fees until July this year and Actinic’s offer runs alongside this. All you’ll pay until July is the £19.99 +VAT monthly Actinic charge along with PayPal processing fees. [...]
[...] With Google Checkout blowing millions on incentives to attract business there’s a lot of catching up to support retailers who want to appeal to a worldwide customer base. PayPal with Website Payments Pro now covers a vast geographic area and one Checkout will take years to compete with. The new markets that can now use PayPal to send money online include: Albania, Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan Republic, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Cook Islands, Djibouti, Dominica, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Faroe Islands, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Greenland, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Federated States of Micronesia, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Nauru, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Niue, Norfolk Island, Oman, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Vatican City, Yemen and Zambia. [...]
[...] Well the answer to the first is a resounding no! There are two sides to PayPal’s business - auction payments largely on eBay, and website payments. Google will only ever compete in the website payments arena, and PayPal have recently introduced PayPal Website Payments Pro which roughly acts as a full merchant account from the buyers perspective. It allows buyers to pay via phone, mail, fax and in person as well as online. PayPal also have worldwide coverage for buyers covering 190 countries whilst Google is still US and UK only. [...]