Paypal is by far the most popular payment processor worldwide and no other payment procesor comes closer. Unfortunately however PayPal was not available to Kenyans until very recently. You could only send but not receive cash with Paypal.
I first tried setting a Paypal button on my other website in January 2009 to sell an informational product. Every ebook I had read on selling online recommended using PayPal to receive payments and as far as I had until then known (or at least PayPal had made me believe), I could sell anything online and receive payments using PayPal.
I built the web page and went ahead to set a PayPal button. Everything seemed to be going on well until I tried to pay myself using a Visa branded debit card I owned only to be notified that I couldn’t receive payments from my country. I cursed heavens but there was nothing I could do.
My heart leaped a few weeks ago when I saw this ad by Paypal on the Google Adsense ad program:
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