The Ultimate Guide to PayPal Alternatives

This is a living post that will be updated regularly with PayPal alternative options for making and accepting payment online. I need your help to make this the very best listing anywhere online of all PayPal alternatives and the pros and cons of using them. If you have experience with any of the services listed here or know of another one that belongs here, please let me know. Let’s make this the ultimate guide to PayPal alternatives and PayPal competition.

Maybe you’ll find something here that works for your business better than PayPal, maybe not, but it’s always nice to have alternatives.

Note: This is not intended to be a forum for bashing PayPal. Let’s keep the comments focused on the alternatives listed.

PayPal Competitors

Intuit Payment Soluntions – offers credit card processing online, with a terminal, or within Quickbooks

All Merchants Welcome – credit card processing, ability to accept payment via cell phone number

SWREG – value added services such as order fulfillment and customer service

FastSpring – designs order page to blend with the look of your website for greatest visit-to-sale conversion

National Merchant Bancard – appears to compete on price

Globill.net – manages multiple currencies

Payoneer – online mass payroll, pays to a prepaid MasterCard

Authorize.net – boasts over 238,000 merchant customers

PaySimple – can process via something called echeck or credit card, also provides email invoicing

2Checkout.com – focus on fraud protection and building community among merchants

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