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I don't get it? Wepay and Paypal are different. Paypal markets itself as a sort of online bank account, whereas Wepay markets themselves as a place to get money
by citricsquid 16y ago
I don't get it? Wepay and Paypal are different. Paypal markets itself as a sort of online bank account, whereas Wepay markets themselves as a place to get money from your room mates. Their comparison page includes DonorsChoose, why would I (assuming I'm an online retailer looking to accept payments) care for DonorsChoose?
They need to change their product and/or marketing direction if they want to compete with Paypal... Paypal are not a place to pay your room mates.
They should have somewhere I can compare them and Paypal like for like, feature to feature.
edit: oh and it gets worse, they ONLY allow US payments. Seriously who thought they're anything like Paypal or are suitable as a replacement? https://www.wepay.com/about/faq#thirteen https://www.wepay.com/about/faq#thirteen
- lsc 16y agobut paypal /is/ a way to pay your roommates. The draw of paypal is that it's a merchant account that is so easy to set up that anyone can have one. They are actually doing a big marketing push in that direction right now. "paid out of pocket for tickets?" the paypal screen said earlier today, "Collect via paypal" hell, I've paid employees, and yes, even roommates via paypal in the past. So yeah, while paypal seems to have a superset of the features and capabilities of WePay, there is a lot of overlap.
- citricsquid 16y agoWepay is to Paypal what Hackernews is to reddit. It has a small subset of features, but not everything and it's everything that makes Paypal so appealing. Sure Wepay and Hackernews work for some people, but the majority they do not.