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PayPal to Retire Pay Later

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Josh

For those of you who are using PayPal, and loved that PayPal offered a "Pay Later" service, you'll be sad to hear that PayPal Pay Later is being discontinued.

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Today, we received a notice from our account rep:
...we have just been notified that PayLater, effective February 20, 2010, will be retired and no longer marketed.
 
We are removing PayLater as part of an overall strategy to optimize our credit product offerings.

 
As a merchant using PayLater today, you will be required to remove all PayLater marketing, including: banners, PayLater learn more product pages and “No Payments for 90 Days” Pay Buttons no later than February 20, 2010.
 
Please let me know what questions you have or how I might help you with the removal process.  We were delighted that PayPal offered the service, since most of the development had already been done when we integrated with PayPal.

Now we have to figure out if we even want to offer a comparable service from another vendor such as BillMeLater. One troubling note, though, is that PayPal reporting doesn't include data on the effectiveness of the PayLater campaign in our PayPal accounts. We wish we had the data, as it would help us to make a decision about how to prioritize a replacement product.

At least they gave plenty of notice...



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Comments

November 17. 2009 23:19

Did you know that Paypal owns BillMeLater? Maybe they are replacing PayLater with BillMeLater.

Will Emerson

November 18. 2009 01:28

Thanks Will. Someone mentioned to me that PayPal owns BillMeLater shortly after this post. That could certainly be the case. I know when we put in the PayLater option, it was a sort of "no brainer" since the development work was 99% complete with the PayPal dev work. I hope, if they do decide to simply replace it, that we don't have to redevelop a whole new solution for BillMeLater.

Josh

February 16. 2010 12:34

I've been using paypal for a long time now. Your right about Paypal giving us some reports about its effectiveness that way we will have some information that will allow us to pick what is best next to Paypal.

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May 1. 2010 17:46

I'm disapointed, it was a great service.

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May 4. 2010 14:12

That sucks that Pay Later from Pay Pal was retired.

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August 10. 2010 06:44

we have learned the hard way to live without Pay Later

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August 26. 2010 15:03

it would be great if you added some more information

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