In a brief email message with no prior warning, PayPal have announced the closure of their Online Merchant Network site, which required specific registration, and have moved the content into a new open-to-all section of the main site, called the Business Resource Centre.

In a notification by email, wishing all merchants a Happy New Year, UK-based P2P online money transfer service MoneyBookers have announced they will soon be collecting fees from both the sender and the receiver.
In the short two paragraph footer to the Merchant Notification email, which revealed that over 60,000 merchants have integrated the MoneyBookers eWallet [...]

It’s not often that I have a buyer use Google Checkout, although I know many sellers claim that it’s nearly as popular as PayPal for them.
A recent transaction, the first in over a year since eBid blocked acceptance of it for merchants registered on their sites other than the UK & US ones, raised my [...]

I’ve noticed a flurry of announcements from the Amazon Payments team lately, so decided it was time to go have a nosy around. Here’s my initial impressions from a drive-by visit …
The first thing I noticed about the Amazon Payments website was, “What a lot they got”.  It’s big, it’s complicated, it’s highly confusing, [...]

From Press Release -
Paymate announced 29 October 2009 the opening up of the US Service to micro-merchants, with the removal of minimum volume requirements and the relaxation of other qualification criteria.  This change is of particular interest to thousands of eBay sellers and small website merchants.
Specific changes announced, effective immediately were:
* No minimum volume: [...]

I received an email invitation today to participate in a heavyweight survey from PayPal UK.
The survey is in 3 parts, which I’ve posted in full in BuildaSkill’s PayPal discussion board.  Completing part 3 allows you the option to enter yourself into a GBP 1,000 prize draw (did that but doubt I’ll win – I never [...]

Quietly added to the list of major currencies in which PayPal users can hold funds within their account, as well as withdraw to bank, is the Thai Baht and Philippines Peso.
These currencies have very recently appeared without any English language announcement that I can find.  I learned of the additions only because of a [...]

Newly released data shows that PayPal is up to five times more fraud-prone than regular credit cards, based on statements made by eBay to the Australian ACCC last year.
Financial Fraud Action UK, the voice of the industry in the UK for financial fraud matters, (previously known as APACS) has published the latest payment industry fraud [...]

I have two PayPal accounts – one in the US and one in the UK.  Previously, I have been able to transfer funds between them via personal payments with no sending or receiving fee.  Since 1st July I have not been able to do so.
All month I have been battling my way past a chain [...]

PayPal recently released a new survey that found nearly half (45 percent) of online shoppers had abandoned their carts multiple times in the previous three weeks due to high shipping costs, security concerns and lack of convenience.
According to PayPal’s survey, the average cost of abandoned goods in U.S. shopping carts is $109.
The results of this survey [...]

The story below caught my eye due to a project I’m working on, this month, to shorten and simplify the checkout process over at GazLanNaThai.com
GazLanNaThai.com uses the highly popular osCommerce Online Merchant website software, and unfortunately the checkout flow runs to 6+ pages, therefore I want to condense that to around two or three to [...]

Forrester Research predicts the number of US households paying bills online will grow from 48 million this year, to 63 million by 2014, in a new report titled “US Electronic Bill Payment And Presentment Forecast, 2009 To 2014″.
A 5.4 percent annual compound growth rate reflects a maturing market, where growth will shrink in years to [...]

Several times last year, and the year before, eBay raised the topic of Community Courts to mediate in feedback dispute resolution cases.
During 2007, on eBay UK, the idea even went as far as to solicit registrations from would-be jurors, particularly amongst PowerSellers.  Last year, simultaneous with most of the world getting the new dispute resolution [...]

Robbert de Haan, Marketing Director of PayPal Benelux has posted in the official PayPal blog, providing proof positive that eBay Corporate’s much derided culture of surviving targets reset quarter-to-quarter, has been revised to a much shorter monthly redirection phasing.
Registered members of the BuildaSkill forums can read and discuss his post in our eBay Buyers Rules [...]

MoneyBookers, who recently became one of eBay.com’s approved payment providers, and has long been a favourite on third tier auction sites, is making a move for additional mainstream venues to adopt them.
To achieve this, they are leveraging the advantage of their large user base by providing branded payment buttons for use in auction descriptions and [...]