WorldPay vs. Paypal

Astaroth

In my option:

Worldpay - real deal, proper businesses use them. Expensive for low volume

Paypal - unprofessional, spotty student in a bedroom pretending to be a business. Cheap for low volume


I havent used them personally but NoChex gets a lot of good reports and fits somewhere between the two. I guess it depends what image you want your business to have.

Quincy_3

Astaroth wrote:

In my opinion:

Worldpay - real deal, proper businesses use them. Expensive for low volume

Paypal - unprofessional, spotty student in a bedroom pretending to be a business. Cheap for low volume

Thats my view of them aswell, I mean Paypal is the !!!!!! younger brother of Worldpay.

ts_aly2000

WorldPay are NatWest in disguise, owned by RBOS. Have full agreements and relationships with the card issuers across the globe.

In essence WorldPay are professional and serious, in that they're not messing about. They're essentially a bank in traditional terms.

BUT, the comparison in customers is dramatic. WorldPay had about 20,000 actual trading merchants in 2004 odd, as compared to PayPal's what must be ALOT. PayPal overshadows WorldPay in terms of customers. PayPal is also more widely known and recognised by the layman than WorldPay.

PayPal is easy wham bam thanks mam, WorldPay is the full package, on par with the amount of fuss and checking that you have to go through if you were opening a business account on the high street.

There's also NetBanx, which are WorldPay's arch rival and operate almost identical practices.

blinky

WorldPay are good but they are expensive. Another thing to consider is they used to hang onto your money for 6 weeks

It never hurts to have PayPal in additional to another PSP.

Protx are always worth a look but you might need a merchant number for processing credit cards.