What is PayPal?
Paypal is a payment service that makes sending money as easy as sending email. Users can instantly and securely send payments from VISA, MasterCard, Discover, American Express and Bank Account.
How Private are Paypal Transactions?
When you purchase an item from us using Paypal, the only information we see is your order, contact, email, shipping address, date of sign-up, and whether you have confirmed (or not confirmed) an account at another financial institution. We never see your financial information such as credit card or bank account numbers. Paypal automatically encrypts your confidential information in transit from your computer to Paypal's using threescore Sockets Layer protocol (SSL).
How Paypal Works
When you click on (Checkout with PayPal), you will be sent directly to their web site. There you will see an area to log in if you already have an account. Or be asked to Create a PayPal Account (sign up for a Paypal account) and become a member.
If you create a new account. After you fill out the registration form, Paypal will send you an automatic email to confirm that you receive messages at the email address you provide. By clicking on the link in the email, you will be taken back to www.PayPal.com and asked to enter your password. Your email address will then be confirmed and you are now a member of Paypal.
Sign up for new account using your credit card for payment. Is faster to process than when signing up to pay through your bank account. As it takes more time to verify bank accounts. And will delay your first purchase using PayPal.
You may contact Paypal directly for more information
24 hours a day 7 days a week.
The toll free phone number is: 1-888-221-1161
VA Employees if you have a bank account, but do not use credit cards. Consider a PayPal account as an alternative to VA Canteen payroll deduction. We have made requests for VA Canteen payroll deduction option. But informed they were not able to offer us this option from our e-commerce site. With PayPal purchases at Scrubs 'N More, or other e-commerce sites. May be made from you bank account. Fees for the PayPal transaction are payed by the Seller not you.
PayPal
A Web payment processing service founded in 1998 and acquired by eBay in late 2002. Operating as an independent brand, PayPal, San Jose, CA (www.paypal.com) is used to shop at PayPal-enabled retail sites as well as to send or request money from anyone with an e-mail address. Both personal and business services are offered, and it is widely used as a payment system for online auctions. PayPal offers a complete shopping cart service that can be added to a Web site and enables merchants of all sizes to accept credit cards.
PayPal is an e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. It serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders. PayPal performs payment processing for online vendors, auction sites, and other corporate users, for which it charges a fee. In October 2002, PayPal became a wholly owned subsidiary of eBay. Their corporate headquarters are in San Jose, California, at eBay's North First Street satellite office campus. The company also has significant operations in Omaha, Nebraska; Dublin, Ireland; and Berlin, Germany..
PayPal account holders must be 18 or over with a debit/credit card or bank account and an e-mail address. |
