Using PayPal for your Quilting Business

Getting paid from customers who live some distance away, or with whom you do business online or by mail, can be a lengthy process and occasionally leave you with a check that isn’t good.  PayPal has become one way to make doing business easier. 

Many home businesses doing business online utilize the PayPal banking services for receiving payment and purchasing.  This is a quick way to undertake these transactions.  You also can transfer payment deposited into PayPal to another bank.  Or you can withdraw money from PayPal by having them send you a check, for a fee.

PayPal does charge slight fees for their transactions, but you generally have to pay fees for other types of banking, too, especially when they involved other countries. 

PayPal continues to expand its services so that more and more companies are using it, making international banking and business less difficult.

Mark at Digital Money World informs us that PayPal just announced its partnership with GPShopper, enabling it to offer Mobile Checkout.

“Mobile Checkout is a simple payment mechanism for consumers on-the-go and merchants with online storefronts. ”  Through Mobile Checkout, consumers (in your case your quilting and fabric art customers) in the U.S., U.K. and Canada can purchase items securely through PayPal by using their mobile phones!  Has the world just become easier?

Although I’ve not used PayPal to pay for purchases, I’ve found it great way to receive payment promtly, especially from companies and individuals in other countries.

Also, PayPal is being utilized by the travel industry…something to consider when you travel to quilt shows. 

 Northwest Airlines announced it will begin using PayPay as a way passengers can pay for their tickets, opening up the area of airline flight to this method that’s recognized internationally.  Mark at Workboxes has more on this topic and PayPal’s new look.