Ecommerce Industry News
PayPal is making a change to its subscription feature that allows sellers to offer recurring payments, subscriptions, automatic billing, and installment plans to their customers. PayPal announced that starting February 1st, 2019, it will be […]
PayPal committed to fund up to $25 million of interest-free cash advances to help federal government employees during the shutdown. PayPal is offering an interest-free cash advance up to $500 for federal employees through its […]
PayPal hired a Chief Marketing Officer and added a new member to its board of directors. As Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Allison Johnson will lead strategic marketing for PayPal and its family […]
Alibaba debuted its Pay Later service for online sellers procuring inventory on its marketplace during the CES show last week. The service is powered by Kabbage, which kicked off the trend of offering loans and […]
In a letter to employees, PayPal CEO Dan Schulman revealed his priorities for the payments firm formerly owned by eBay. Not surprisingly, mobile was at the top of the list, and Schulman also reminded employees […]
Amazon is tempting merchants to sign up for its Amazon Pay payments solution by dangling an Amazon Echo device before their eyes. An email described the new promotion as follows: “For a limited-time, new Amazon […]
Online payment services have gotten into small-business lending through working capital loans, but did you know ecommerce payments giant PayPal also offers a more traditional flavor of lending? A reader forwarded us a marketing email […]
Amazon is promoting its payments solution with an email marketing campaign targeted at small businesses. With the “Success beyond Small Business Saturday” subject line, the email from Amazon Pay encourages sellers to learn more about […]
Shoppers in certain countries will be able to shop on Amazon and pay in person in their local currency through Western Union thanks to a new agreement. Customers in those select countries will be offered […]
PayPal will help merchants in Germany with financing by expanding its Working Capital program, already available in the US, UK, and Australia. PayPal Businesskredit allows businesses to get a working capital loan – and because […]