PayPal Here is a “pay as you sell” payment processing and tracking software. It allows you to accept payments for your business via credit card, debit card, invoice, cash or check, all while on-the-go. We compiled PayPal Here user reviews from our website and around the web and determined that it has a mix of positive and negative ratings. We also shared its available pricing options.
Want to know the top mobile payment software for small business? Read our PayPal Here alternatives guide.
Summary of User Reviews
What PayPal Here Does Well
Users who gave PayPal Here a positive review said that they like the many payment options it offers, how easy it is to use, and how quickly payments are reflected in their accounts.
What PayPal Here Does Not Do Well
Users who gave PayPal Here a negative review cited issues with funds being withheld when transactions exceeded a certain amount. They added that customer service reps are not able to provide a clear explanation or solution to the problem.
Most Helpful Positive User Review
“PayPal Here has the best payment method in history. Its platform has a lot of possibility to send payments from anywhere and without any restrictions. It is really positive that when a payment is sent, the other person receives it in a matter of seconds. This has been a total trend in my company for the amount of insurmountable payments I have made to my employees.”
– Paula Rodriguez
Most Helpful Negative User Review
“If there are significant volumes of your transactions going through PayPal, it may be best to look at alternatives. The holds they place on certain amounts can be frustrating and difficult to understand, and the accounting for PayPal transactions can get complex depending on how the reporting ‘feels like working’ that particular day.”
– Tyler Hakesley
PayPal Here Pricing
Signing up for a PayPal Here account and downloading the PayPal Here app are free, but it requires users to purchase card readers to use the account*. Fees are charged for every accepted payment — US card swipe (2.7%/swipe), Key in cards (3.5% + $0.15), Invoice (2.9% + $0.30), and Cross-border transfers (1.5%).
PayPal Here Features
Check out the list below of some of PayPal Here’s features.
- Account Customization
- Manage Inventory
- Run Sales Reports
- Authorization of Users
- Tax Calculation
- Apply Discounts
- Add Tips
- Generate Reports
Helpful Mobile Payments Resources
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Best Payment Gateway for Small Business 2017: Stripe vs. PayPal vs. Authorize.Net — Payment gateways are the middlemen that connect your eCommerce shopping cart to your payment processor to enable online credit card payments. In this guide, we list three companies who covered the range for small businesses in terms of security, ease-of-use, payment processing options, and price.
How to Accept Credit Card Payments: In-Store, Online & Mobile — Accepting credit card payments is proven to increase in-store sales and is absolutely necessary for businesses selling online. If you’re searching for the right credit card processing solution, this guide shows you how to accept credit cards anywhere.
PayPal Here FAQ
Do I need an internet connection to use PayPal Here card readers?
Yes. An internet connection is necessary to process a payment transaction.
Do my customers need a PayPal account to make a payment?
No. With PayPal Here, customers can pay you via debit and credit card, check, and cash, as well as mobile payment solutions such as Apple Pay and Android Wallet.
PayPal Here Overview Video
This video provides a brief overview on how PayPal Here can help users achieve a smart and convenient payment experience for their customers.
Popular Integrations
When choosing a mobile payment solution, it’s important that the software integrates with other applications your business is currently using. Here is a list of some of PayPal Here’s popular integrations:
- WooCommerce
- Hike POS
- GitHub
Top PayPal Here Alternatives
Not sure if PayPal Here is the right fit for you? Read our reviews of all top mobile payments providers or check out one of these three PayPal Here competitors.
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Carlos Sanchez
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The main strengths of PayPal in my opinion are: The security it offers (which has a neat reputation, in the 3 years that I have been using this service I have not had any problems); The ease of use in different websites of purchases or services (among which we can find Ebay, facebook advertising, various hosting services, domain sellers (such as Godaddy) among many others); The speed of transactions; your customer service (which has always answered all my concerns correctly); And finally its universality, because it allows me to receive and send transactions to any person anywhere in the world with an active Paypal account.
The main defect of Paypal are its excessive commissions (which are 5.4% of its value + 0.3 US $), this is a factor that puts this service at a disadvantage compared to other similar services (such as Skrill, Uphold, Neteller, among others , which have much more acceptable commissions). Likewise, I have noticed that paypal has unfairly limited some accounts of known and established too long time lapses for the return of the money contained in these.
The considerable risk of an unfair limitation of the account, as well as its high commissions in comparison to other similar services.
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Norah Mutio
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Paypal is a payment gateway or a payment platform with advantages and disadvantages. The things that I like most about PayPal are: the transfers that are made usually take place immediately, regardless of the distance from which it is made, another advantage is the possibility of exchanging currencies from dollar to euro and vice versa with its respective change of moment and allows us to make transactions with people whose currency of use is the euro, another advantage is the convenience of opening an account that, except for a bank, you need an email, of course, when verifying the account to make movements older is necessary other requirements, and finally among the things I like is the ease with which the money is sent, only the mail that is associated with the paypal account is necessary and the amount to transfer with that is enough to make the transference.
Despite the advantages that paypal has, there are certainly disadvantages that must be taken into account when using this payment platform, both to make a payment and to receive it, the first thing I do not like is that to have sums of relatively large money is necessary to verify the account and this verification depends on entering a credit card of the currencies that are handled here, that is, someone without a credit card is deprived of taking full advantage of paypal, the second thing that sometimes is conditional to use this platform are the commissions that in my opinion are quite high, the commissions will always depend on the amount of money you want to transfer and is always deducted from the money transferred, if I spend $ 25 to a person, that person will receive $ 25 less commission for the transfer. And the third and last disadvantage in my opinion is the most important thing is that there is something called a dispute, and that is when someone who sent money wants to recover it for the same reason, but the problem is that sometimes this process is used by malicious people and The truth is that a high percentage of disputes always win the people who send the money.
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Michael Williams
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PayPal Here is excellent for making payments from anywhere I am, I like it too much because it has been useful since I implemented it, it has helped me to be able to pay my clients or my employees in a simpler way and they can have this money at your disposal in a matter of seconds.
PayPal Here takes a steeply high commission, I would like the commissions to be a little lower to facilitate transactions and make the money yield more.
Its implementation was simple, and we were able to make payments from the first moment.
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Robert Salman
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I love PayPal Here because it is an excellent way to process payments from anywhere I am, with this platform I have made payments in a matter of seconds and I have been able to establish excellent payment connections. PayPal Here is fast, safe and your money will never be at risk.
It has many problems with credit cards, several times my account has been blocked for no reason and then I unlock it when I send some files. It should not be so restricted.
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Paula Rodriguez
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Paypal Here has the best payment method in history, its platform has a lot of possibility to send payments from anywhere and without any restrictions. It is really positive that when a payment is sent, the other person receives it in a matter of seconds. This has been a total trend in my company for the amount of insurmountable payments I have made to my employees.
In Paypal Here you should reduce the high restriction that you have with credit cards, since many accounts are blocked daily for no reason.
Nothing at all, since I implemented Paypal Here, has fulfilled everything promised.
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