{"id":315,"date":"2007-09-28T08:45:56","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T15:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/28\/paypal-now-in-the-philippines-for-real\/"},"modified":"2007-09-28T08:45:56","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T15:45:56","slug":"paypal-now-in-the-philippines-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/28\/paypal-now-in-the-philippines-for-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Paypal Now in the Philippines (For Real)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paraz.com\/\">Migs<\/a> twittered that Filipinos can now receive payments through Paypal.  That led me to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinoymoneytalk.com\/2007\/09\/28\/paypal-philippines-can-now-receive-payments\/\">blog post on PinoyMoneyTalk<\/a>.  Indeed, after checking it out myself, it&#8217;s now possible!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nTalk about killing two birds with one stone.  Yesterday, Google allowed Filipino Adsense publishers to receive their earnings with Western Union Quick Cash.  It was greeted with cheers and a few faint jeers.  But overall, these developments prove that Filipinos are now a major force to be reckoned with, at least online.  With <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paypalnow.com.ph\/blog\/\">Paypal enabled<\/a>, there&#8217;s a ton of opportunities for Pinoys to do business online.  Before, the best option around was Xoom, but its exorbitant fees are a major turnoff.  Furthermore, Yehey&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/kaban.com.ph\/\">Kaban<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/yespayments.com\/\">YES Payments<\/a> just aren&#8217;t feasible for small sellers.  How will our local merchant service providers (and Xoom) hold up against Paypal?<\/p>\n<p>To sign up for an account, you&#8217;ll need a major credit card (Mastercard or Visa) and it may take a few weeks before you can begin to send money.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/paypal.com\/\">Paypal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Migs twittered that Filipinos can now receive payments through Paypal. That led me to this blog post on PinoyMoneyTalk. Indeed, after checking it out myself, it&#8217;s now possible!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-news","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJQs-55","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}