POLL: Does Your Hosting Company Accept PayPal?

[FastCheapServer]

Im just curies about how many hosting companies out there accept PayPal payments and if they are completly automated.

[Robert]

Your POLL Question is directed to clients, yet in your post you ask it to HOSTS, so I'll goahead and answer it.

The answer for us is "YES", except, we frown on it because our billing system (MB) does not support paypal subscriptions. The newest version of MB does, however, that's in BETA and we'd be insane to place a beta script in production on our site!

[Curtis H.]

One of my providers does accept PayPal while the other does not. I personally never have had a PayPal account and prefer to stay away from them. If a host ONLY accepts PayPal, I will not use or recommend them.

[striker]

I tried to sign up with PayPal but they said I did something wrong and they disabled 2 of my credit cards. I don't like the service. If your gonna use your credit card, you have to make sure it's safe and serious. I don't take PayPal seriously at all. It tells me that the person taking payment isn't willing to spend extra money on a merchant account.

[FactoryNet1]

We use WHM Autopilot as our billing system and it is very easy for us to accept paypal payments. But planning to add 2checkout or paysystems soon so it is more convenient for our customers. :D

[Wojtek]

i hate paypal, but enjoy bidpay.com, only for auctions :)

[JodoHost]

We offer PayPal and its pretty popular with US and Canadian customers. Brought in alot of new business since we introduced it.
Our system is semi-automated. Customer is emailed invoice every month with a Paypal payment URL. All they have to do is click it and pay.

[FastCheapServer]

The reason im having this poll is because making a new billing system for WHM/cPanel made from the ground up for PayPal. Its is a cheap alterative to WHM Autopilot, this will work with PayPal and money orders and its easy to add other paying systems to it, the reason I started this project is because I buy reseller hosting accounts to resell, I have to add accounts by hand every time I get an order, but this new software im makeing will take care of every thing for me. Im going to be selling it at about 40-50 dollars a license.

[bright-byte]

Originally posted by JodoHost
We offer PayPal and its pretty popular with US and Canadian customers. Brought in alot of new business since we introduced it.
Our system is semi-automated. Customer is emailed invoice every month with a Paypal payment URL. All they have to do is click it and pay. :) Same experience here, we were told not to use PayPal as it gives an unprofessional appearance to potential clients, however due to the incredibly high number of clients that were asking for us to use PayPal we decided to give it a trail to see if in fact it would cause our sales to drop, as every body was saying.

That was a year ago and it has increased sales rather than decreased them, there are now over 42,000 websites that accept PayPal so you work it out. I'm not saying that PayPal is great and that you all should use them in fact just the opposite don't use them and we will take all the customers that will only use PayPal to purchase their hosting accounts.

BTW we have always excepted Credit Cards and E-Check as a payment method and will in special circumstances except other forms of payment like wire etc, that way you cover all forms of payment that customers would like you use, so my advice is to except as many forms of payment as possible that way your sales can only increase.

P.S. in that year that we have been excepting PayPal we have only had one email complaining that we use them as an alternate payment method.

[Robert]

Whoever told you accepting paypal would decrease your sales was a complete idiot. You should never only accept paypal and hosts that only accept paypal I'd stay away from. But a host that accepts Credit Cards via a merchant or a 3rd party merchant (besides Paypal), and accepts paypal at the same time not only increases sales but also increases means of income.

[Vegs]

Paypal is just another method of accepting payment, much like credit cards, online checks or money orders.

[Trel]

Paypal is smart for hosts that are just starting out: low cost/risk, easy to accept, widely used by people looking for small shared accounts.

With sites like 2checkout.com, I'm stunned every host doesn't accept credit cards.

50 dollars and a credit/background check then your up and running. Easy enough if you ask me.

:D

[Robert]

Originally posted by LifelessHost
Paypal is smart for hosts that are just starting out: low cost/risk, easy to accept, widely used by people looking for small shared accounts.

With sites like 2checkout.com, I'm stunned every host doesn't accept credit cards.

50 dollars and a credit/background check then your up and running. Easy enough if you ask me.

:D

Because $50 dollars is tooo much for a host to start out with. Or that's what everyone says at WHT when they want to start a host, that they can't afford $50 dollars!

[Martie]

We too offer Paypal but its not our main source.
We simply added it because certain clients requested it as thats how they wanted to pay.

[vanitha@accuweb]

We offer PayPal and its pretty popular with US customers.

Brought few new business since we introduced it.

Our system is completely automated.

All they have to do is click it and pay.

[blutek]

PayPal is essential to have as many people perfer it. Have had an account with them for 4 years and never had any problems.