PayPal Adds Markets, Language Support
May 10, 2007 | by Geoff Duncan
PayPal has extended its reach to include 190 national markets around the world, and its main site is now available in Spanish, French, and simplified Chinese.
Online payment service—and eBay subsidiary—PayPal has announced it has expanded its reach to 87 new national markets, and had finally made its primary site available in three new languages. The new additions make PayPal available in 190 markets around the world.
As of today, users will also be able to access the main PayPal site—and all online transaction processes—in Spanish, French, or simplified Chinese. Users with Internet browsers configured to prefer any of those three languages will automatically be offered to view the site in their preferred language when they first visit the site.
"We are thrilled to expand our services to 190 markets worldwide, and introduce three new languages to the PayPal.com site," said Dana Stalder, PayPal senior VP, in a statement. "By enabling customers to view PayPal.com in Spanish, French and simplified Chinese, we now offer customers in 46 markets the ability to transact in their native language, making domestic and cross border trading secure and simple for millions of customers around the globe."
PayPal is a leading online transaction processor, and is particular popular with users of online auction sites like eBay, although PayPal can be used to purchase a vast array of goods and services from non-eBay sites and merchants.
The 87 new markets PayPal now supports are listed below; PayPal also offers a complete list of supported markets around the world.
Albania
Algeria
Angola
Antigua and Barbuda
Armenia
Azerbaijan Republic
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Chad
Colombia
Comoros
Democratic Republic of Congo
Republic of Congo
Cook Islands
Djibouti
Dominica
El Salvador
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Faroe Islands
Gabon Republic
Gambia
Greenland
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Honduras
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Lesotho
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Federated States of Micronesia
Mongolia
Morocco
Mozambique
Nauru
Nepal
Nicaragua
Niger
Niue
Norfolk Island
Oman
Palau
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Peru
Romania
Rwanda
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
Sri Lanka
Suriname
Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Swaziland
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Yemen
Zambia
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anas126 on May 12th, 2007 at 9:37 PM:
Hello,
What a nice news...to see paypal available in all over the world!
@Hans,
I don't agree with you, internet is so popular in almost of the countries listed above, but paypal was depriving them from their service...
Indeed, from my country, we had wrote many times to Paypal, signed many petition asking them this...it was impossible to make an online payment from here (apart from societies, agencies...)
Anyway, i am so happy to see paypal available in this new list (my country included), and give a paypal access right to more people around the world!
Greetings from Morocco,
Hans on May 13th, 2007 at 12:11 PM:
@anas126
sorry, I didn't mean to offend, I have just been very frustrated during the past few years explaining to people why I cannot accept paypal payments and now seeing that a lot of new countries have been added, but they aren't even working on expanding full services to countries that have been in send only list for years just makes it worse. Most people just seem to think that everybody can use paypal and when you try to explain that you cannot accept payments via it they automatically think you are some kind of scammer or something.
Also you should know that if your country has been added send only then you still need credit card to make payments (I presume not having credit card was the problem why it was impossible to make online payment from your location before because visa is accepted almost everywhere with or without paypal)
anas126 on May 18th, 2007 at 9:01 AM:
Hello Hans,
Personnally, what i can't take, is why such limitation in such service ?
Many guys runs many business from here, but we have to pass through our society. As a particular you build your own business online, but when you want to install the payment processing you will block up...
Right now, we can pay but we can't receive nor withraw money through paypal!! And, for to use it, as you have mentioned there is a need of credit car..so the people (ecpcially students and under 18 years ) how they will have credit card to add it to their paypal account, the visa card is not available for ALL people!
On the other hand, i think that it will be a great deal for many online companies (registrars, hosting...) to enter to the market of many countries listed above and i am sur that it will make a gain of an important number of local consumers...the online payment still faces a big obstacle here!
Wishing you all the best Hans,
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Hans on May 10th, 2007 at 3:37 PM:
So they add bunch of countries where almost no one uses Internet, while countries, like Estonia, where basically everyone use Internet every day still have to settle with send only accounts. I am not sure what ebay is trying to do, but I am starting to like the less day by day.