PayPal paved the way when it came to online transactions, but it clearly wants to be everywhere consumers are – and the ATM is one of those places. On Monday, it announced FIS would use technology from PayPal subsidiary Paydiant Read more
China’s Alipay payment service has partnered with Ingenico Group as part of an initiative designed to bring Alipay to European retailers. The idea is for European retailers to be able to cater to Chinese tourists so they can conveniently pay Read more
PayPal updated its mobile app which now allows customers to login to Android devices with fingerprint authentication. The new biometric login applies to devices using the Android Marshmallow operating system, such as the Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P and Samsung Galaxy Read more
Seventeen years after disrupting the payments industry, upstart PayPal has struck a deal with Visa, founded in the 1950s. The arrangement is designed to carry significant benefits for issuing financial institutions, acquirers, and merchants, according to the announcement. PayPal will Read more
Shoppers trying to pay with PayPal on Thursday experienced problems that were reported on various industry boards, social media sites, and on the Ecommerce EKG board. Sellers said they could not login to PayPal, receiving “session timed out” error messages, and Read more
Mastercard unveiled a new digital payment service three years ago called Masterpass, but it has not proven itself a major threat to PayPal. On Thursday, Mastercard announced a revamped Masterpass that it called an important industry milestone: consumers can now make simple Read more
Etsy sellers are still dealing with a major payments issue that began on Friday, and nearly a week later Etsy said Worldpay was the cause of the problem. While Worldpay apologized to buyers and sellers through an Etsy message, it downplayed Read more
eBay sellers are generous, but they like to give their permission before their money is donated to charity. This week, some eBay users discovered that PayPal was making unauthorized donations to charities through eBay Giving Works, taking the money right Read more
eBay sellers may be in for some changes around payment processing. While PayPal remains eBay’s main payment-processing engine even after last year’s breakup, eBay must now manage its own risk and payment processing practices, and last week announced it has Read more
EcommerceBytes has received several reports from longtime sellers that PayPal is placing holds on transactions – the first time in their selling history – and tell us the targeted transactions do not appear to be any more risky than the Read more
