
About PayPal
PayPal Commerce Platform is a comprehensive solution designed to serve your business needs and your customers, whether you’re just getting started or already a thriving enterprise or marketplace.
Leveraging our two-sided network, the platform lets you connect with more than 295 million PayPal customers around the world and across many platforms and marketplaces. Now you can find new markets, new channels, new high-value customers. All while giving your customers the freedom to buy how they want—nearly anywhere in the world.
Pricing starting from:
Not provided by vendor
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Key benefits of PayPal
Accept Payments - PayPal Commerce Platform helps make it easy for your customers to pay any way they want from almost anywhere. Let them pay now, pay later, or offer subscriptions or global and local payment options. It's the kind of flexibility customers demand—the kind that drives loyalty and lets you grow with the market.
Make Payments - Keep your business moving. Simply send payments to contractors or vendors directly from your account with PayPal.
Manage Risk - Our powerful network securely processes more than 1 billion transactions each month. And since our fraud tools get smarter with each transaction, we can help protect your business and your customers against fraud with the unmatched experience, global reach, and advanced fraud protection technology of PayPal.
Accelerate Growth - Now you can access critical funding, drive sales and conversion with shopper insights, and connect easily with new marketplaces. It’s growth, accelerated.
Streamline Operations - With the platform, you have the tools and resources you need to tackle the mundane tasks, freeing you to focus on what you love. Your business will run smoother than ever with reporting, analytics, shipping, and cash management tools—all from a single dashboard.
Typical Customers
- Freelancers
- Small Businesses (2-50)
- Mid-size Companies (51-500)
- Large enterprises (500 and more)
Deployment
- Cloud-based
- On-premise
Markets
Australia, Canada, China, Germany, United Kingdom , India, Japan, United States and 3 others
Supported Languages
Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch , English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian and 21 others
Pricing starting from:
Not provided by vendor
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Features
Total features of PayPal: 84
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- Industry: Design
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Great online payments system with many features
Reviewed on 14/09/2021
My experience has been great and I use Paypal all the time for many online purchases and have...
My experience has been great and I use Paypal all the time for many online purchases and have places that send me payments right to my paypal account.
Pros
There are very few places that do not take paypal. You can easily add multiple ways to pay. It also easily integrates with many things like woocommerce, zapier and wordpress to take payments if you would like. It is easy to get money from friends or people who owe you for business.
Cons
There is really only one annoyance that I have with paypal. If I have a say $10 visa or mastercard gift card and say I want to buy something for $15 most places online don't take 2 forms of payment for the same item so I need some way to put the gift card into my paypal account, but they don't allow you to easily send money from a credit card or prepaid gift cards. So the work around is to make an invoice and send it to another email and then pay with the gift card. There are 2 things with this the first is then that you must pay a fee which I understand and would be fine paying the fee. The other is that the whole process is a pain in the butt. They should just allow prepaid gift card amounts to be added to your balance and then just charge you the fee. Annoying but not a deal breaker.
Alternatives Considered
Wave AccountingReasons for Switching to PayPal
It's not necessarily that I have chosen Paypal over Wave. I use Wave more for my business and accounting stuff and making pretty invoices. I use Paypal way more often for my personal stuff and many online purchases and to get payments from survey sites and a few other things. So I think Paypal has its great purposes and if I start an ecommerce website which I probably will I will likely use Paypal for taking payments with Woocommerce.
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
The Global Solution - but not the best
Reviewed on 24/07/2020
As someone who likes to solve problems and its willing to work around technicalities to make things...
As someone who likes to solve problems and its willing to work around technicalities to make things work, PayPal has been a very decent experience. As I mentioned, I really miss some key features regarding recurring billing and checkout customization but, as an overall, it is an amazing platform.
Pros
What I really like about PayPal is that it is available in almost any country in the world and works with almost any existing credit card. It's also a great payment option because it has no initial upfront costs, which means that anyone can start using it right away. If, for some reason, you cannot have the money transferred to your local bank, PayPal will transfer the money to any dollar card you might have within two days. The fact that you can also embed it to your website or smartphone app is also great. You can also create a PayPal.me checkout, which will allow you to charge anyone any amount you need to charge in a quick and simple way by via a link you can share.
Cons
I think that the user interface is not the easiest to understand at all. PayPal also lacks on features when it comes to, for example, recurring billing systems (recently, they tried to improved it but the generated codes - to embed on a website - generated an error, which is something unbelievable coming from such a giant technological company), and the options to charge or personalize the icons are not the best neither.
The $5 (per transaction) and 5% commission of the total amount you are transferring are not the lowest on the market neither. This is only compensated by the fact that they are the most globally accepted payment platform in the world.
Finally, customer service doesn't exist at all and you must solve almost every problem and question by yourself. Google and forums are your only source of help. This is, probably, one of the worst things about PayPal. What happens if they freeze your money and you cannot withdraw it? No one knows.
Reasons for Switching to PayPal
PayPal is, by now, the only platform that works in most countries of Latin America. It has almost no upfront costs neither and its international reputation transmits a certain degree of guarantee.- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10
The worst customer service of any banking institution
Reviewed on 14/12/2022
Just awful. They make it so difficult to access and withdraw your own money - I've been charged $20...
Just awful. They make it so difficult to access and withdraw your own money - I've been charged $20 in total trying to withdraw money. Still haven't got any of it. This is my second Paypal account, after I got locked out of my last one which still had money it - all because their log in and withdrawal system is a joke.
Pros
Nothing. Unfortunately a necessity as many shoppers prefer to pay with Paypal, so sellers have to deal with it's terrible UX.
Cons
Where to start? I suppose the customer service.Paypal resolves issues using the following process- Charge you a random fee because they were unable to perform a simple request (your fault, apparently(- Direct you to an automated support bot system where you log a ticket, for no reason- Send you a generic, irrelevant response that doesn't help your problem- You call them instead: After being on hold for 3 hours, they give you a slightly different generic response and then charge you another fee
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Why is PayPal in my good books?
Reviewed on 24/10/2022
This is the easiest software to use while running a relatively small business. No hassles with...
This is the easiest software to use while running a relatively small business. No hassles with essential a pay as you go model with the minimal transfer fees.
Pros
- Very easy to understand and use with a modern website interface that makes me feel secure with my money. This software has fewer bugs and glitches while presenting a modern feel.- Well structured website with easy to access invoices and client contacts.- 1% fee with a max $10 on an immediate e-transfer is generous yet expected since in Canada we have no transfer fees.
Cons
- Sometimes the website is slow to load IF I have multiple screens open. That might be a separate performance issue but this site seems to have the bug.- Difficult to navigate the website for additional features that are not on the home navigation menu.
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XeroReasons for Choosing PayPal
PayPal is easier to understand and use without trying to up sell you.Switched From
XeroReasons for Switching to PayPal
Simplicity to use and established rep-ore from previous years use.
- Industry: Leisure, Travel & Tourism
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
The only way to pay, pal.
Reviewed on 20/10/2022
Pros
I love the low fees, the several products available, the support and the ease of accessing my account any where any time!
Cons
I only don't like the fact that business accounts aren't issued a routing number and account number and that they dont offer store card on file for the ability to preauthorize a charge for a later day.
PayPal FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for PayPal.Q. What type of pricing plans does PayPal offer?
PayPal offers the following pricing plans:
- Pricing model: Free Version
- Free Trial: Not Available
Pricing is based per transaction. 2.5% + Fixed fee ( $0.041)
Q. Who are the typical users of PayPal?
PayPal has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2-10, 11-50, 51-200, 201-500, 501-1,000, 1,001-5,000
Q. What languages does PayPal support?
PayPal supports the following languages:
Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian
Q. Does PayPal support mobile devices?
PayPal supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does PayPal integrate with?
PayPal integrates with the following applications:
BigCommerce, Braintree, Quickbooks Online, Shopify, Wix, WooCommerce
Q. What level of support does PayPal offer?
PayPal offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat
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