Credit Card payments no longer require registration with PayPal Debt Free.org.uk (blog)
28.06.10
PayPal, the online payments Amazon, will now accept credit card payments for vendors without requiring customers to open an account.
The new ‘Guest Payments’ system will earmark e-commerce operators and web developers to process credit card payments without forcing their customers to set up a PayPal account, and in place of will process them directly.
Customers will be able to collect financial data, including credit card numbers, through their website and the payment will be billed through PayPal, rather than directing their customers to the PayPal spot to sign in and make their purchase.
A PayPal spokesperson said: “Guest Payments allows developers to together credit card payments without requiring their customers to open a PayPal account, eliminating the complications merchants, developers and startups mush in accepting credit cards”
The news from PayPal comes shortly after credit card giants Visa and Mastercard announced that they would be motile into the online payments sector and set up payment systems to rival PayPal. By opening up their credit card system PayPal have shown their intentions to beseech to a wider ranging market.
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