Paypal Here
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has anyone tried the new paypal here app? its a separate app from paypal itself.
if so can anyone tell me what model phone and what android version they have? many thanks.
if so can anyone tell me what model phone and what android version they have? many thanks.
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Unless the app is actually ran by Paypal I would stay well clear.
It is an official Paypal app.
It should work on the majority of phones, but does need a companion card reader to work IIRC.
Other fees: 3.40% + 20p for card payments made by swiping the magnetic strip or manually entering the card details. These fees apply to domestic transactions. If the payer’s card or PayPal account is from outside the United Kingdom, our standard cross-border fees also apply. PayPal Business account fees apply to all other payments received using PayPal Here.
They don't seem to show what they mean by "all other payments"...
Also, if all your funds go into your "central PayPal account", surely when you withdraw those funds, you get charged again?
Oh, and the app...no one seems to be able to log in, including me. I just tried it, using the same details I logged in on the laptop with, yet the app says the details are wrong!
lol Good start to help small businesses.
Artanda, once you have been paid via paypal here the money is in your normal paypal account and can be withdrawn just like normal.
You are charged when you make a transaction (as you would be when someone buys something from you off ebay and pays via paypal for example) after that, you aren't charged anything to withdraw your money.
At the end of the day it has gotten me sales I would otherwise have lost from people not having cash and is much cheaper than renting a card reader from a bank.
Paypal don't charge for withdrawals to your bank account.
keep em coming, btw I already have my card reader
Do we have any reason to think it won't work with any phone.
I used an S2 before I got the S4 which worked fine. You should be able to pick one of them up cheap. Or an S3.
Android 2.3.3 and up.
You of course need phone signal and data or a wireless network connection to make transactions
screen size, android version etc etc. then you have the apps requirements such as Bluetooth SPP as well.
however there is no definitive list. They say just to 'try' it. however im not going to order a phone on contract and find I will not work so will be seeing what definitely works
you say that, but my sony Tipo, which is bluetooth 3, and android 4.0.4 Ice cream sandwich, wont install the app.
So no not every modern phone.
You out of storage, ram?
It could just be an error.
Thanks for that.
The app wasn't accepting my password, but it seems to have, accepted it...maybe, almost, but not quite because now, I cannot log in due to the app saying "Paypal needs your location bla bla bla"....
My GPS, Location and everything else to do with location is ON, yet it still will not let me log in fully. >:( See pic HERE
These are the errors I keep getting. (pics edited to remove personal info)
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If it is this frustrating just to log in and set up, how bad is it going to be when I actually come to use the bloody thing? Grrrr.
To be fair that is not a representative sample. most app reviews are people moaning about problems.
if the app has 1m downloads you would expect for any app ~1000 complaining that it wont install etc.
Regarding the app, near obviously it will not install on Rooted devices.
paypal is no more expensive than any of the other methods of accepting payment. or at least not significantly.
The charges are the same 2.75%, but this goes down the more you take.
I've decided to go with iZettle. Way too many problems just signing up with PayPal Here.
I bought the card reader [earlier] from Maplin (£59.99) and have it all set up and on the go.
My charges will be 2.75%, but that's fine by me. If ever I go above a certain amount of income, I know the charges will actually drop in comparison to PayPal, which it seems stay at 2.75% no matter how little or much you take.
My new card reader purchase. I like the little LCD on it. Good for the customer to see their purchase is correct and approved.
The app is so simple to use too. Would be nice to be able to text a receipt too, like the PayPal app, but hey ho, the email option is just as good.
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nice.
what is it you're doing out of curiosity? i'm wondering if i could use one when i'm prostituting myself.
The Izettle device is a rebraded paypal here unit + the LCD. Infact theyre all the same. However whats interesting, whilst I was reading the logs I saw it say apple processor.
As for flagpoles answer, it was indeed the screensize that stopped it installing on the Tipo. However my rooted Ace i, it installed perfectly yet according to paypal its an unsupported phone? it took payments fine. it is running Cyanogen mod 7 so perhaps the original 2.3.6 gingerbread and drivers might have issues whereas the Cyanogen mod 2.3.7 might well have updated the bluetooth and the like because it works flawlessly. I may for the time being just stick with a data plan enabled sim and use this. Then get paypal here when the phone shuts off.
By the way if you plug in the reader via usb into your PC its internal storage opens up, theres only a few log files but make interesting read.