Participants in SME Outsource use a variety of payment mechanisms to pay for services. Credit cards afford greater protection to buyers and several online payment services have been established that enable individuals to make credit card payments to one another. At SME Outsource we currently recommend using PayPal for money transactions between Project owners and Service providers, mainly because of its ease of use. However, this is only a recommendation and members are free to choose whichever payment method is most convenient to them.

A service provider must be registered with PayPal in order to receive payments through the PayPal service. If the buyer is also a registered user, he or she may initiate a payment by logging into PayPal’s web site and entering information about the purchase, including the amount and the seller’s e-mail address. The payment is deducted from the buyer’s PayPal account if it contains sufficient funds; otherwise, the buyer may charge the payment to a credit card.

Online payments enable transactions to be completed more quickly and thus the service provider can ship the goods promptly rather than waiting a few days to receive payment or possibly much longer for a check to clear. Click on the PayPal link to register.