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I absolutely despise PayPal but... I sell stuff on Gumroad as a hobby (synth presets) and initially only had credit card payments via Gumroad. Maybe a year or
by pier25 4y ago
I absolutely despise PayPal but...
I sell stuff on Gumroad as a hobby (synth presets) and initially only had credit card payments via Gumroad.
Maybe a year or so after I started my Gumroad shop, a user complained they couldn't pay with PayPal. Not sure why I had assumed this was available... but anyway, I enabled PayPal. Now probably 50% of payments are done with PayPal and I'm selling more than before.
I'm also getting more "random" customers that I didn't get before. Before, probably 95% of sales occurred at the peak of a product launch. Since I added PayPal I get a couple of random sales every week with no promotion at all. And it's been like 6 months ago since I launched my last product. My guess is, I'm getting more impulse buys with PayPal.
- Paraesthetic 4y agoWhat synths do you sell for? Link to presets?
- pier25 4y agoU-He Zebra https://www.mercurysounddesign.com/ https://www.mercurysounddesign.com/
- mgbmtl 4y agoCould it be related to the age of buyers? Folks 16-25 usually have a bank account, but may not qualify for a credit card. In my work there was pressure to enable PayPal when Netflix became popular (and they accepted PayPal, but not direct debit, so all the kids had PayPal). These days it seems to have faded. As a payment option, it is really confusing to a lot of less technical people, and most banks here (Canada) offer credit-debit cards by default (except Desjardins).