iPhone App - PayPal

Are you an iPhone user? And, do you use PayPal? I am the user for both and I just love how people had became so innovative and creative, the existence of iPhone - or iWhatever really had change so many things including lifestyle.

I am a faithful believer of "Law of Attraction", and I believe staying positive attracts more things that you would like to be attracted to - things changed after I installed PayPal application on iPhone (you can install this application by going to AppStore > Categories > Finance > Top Free) and I will tell you how.

Since the day I had this application installed, this is what had happened..

When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I see from my phone when I shut the alarm, I see notification pushed by PayPal... 

When I am accessing Facebook during lunch time, people are buying stuff during lunch time too!!!

And when I am talking with my family member in the middle of the night... the pushed notification just reminded me that U.S market is wide awake!!!

When I read mails while brushing teeth....

ANNOYING!!!
BUT HELL I LURVEEEE IT! LOL!!!

I smile every time I am notified with payment received, it doesn't matter where I go and what was I doing, from the amount I could roughly guess from which online venue I've got my product sold, if I want to view the detail of the payment received I can touch the "View" button - and then I get to choose to login with PayPal E-mail address or pin:

 The interface for logging with Password:

The interface for logging with Pin - all you need to do is register your mobile number with PayPal, there is no right or wrong of which login method you should be using, just personal preference.

Then...

 Tada!!! You are in!

 Touching the arrow down button will reveal more details of the transaction, including Payment Type, Status, ID, and Item. You get to choose to view full details of it (but they lied, the full details is not "full", just whatever you can see from the arrow-down button plus Shipping address, which is just enough for you to know things you need to know for the transaction.

Last but not least, remember to log out!!! :) (Getting out of the app directly would do the trick too. :P )

The only downturn of this application is that if you have transaction piling up and the notification is triggered before you close the current notification that's occupying your screen, you won't get the new notification, of which I think PayPal might never implement - remember sometimes we just won't get E-mail notification when we receive fund? Yeah that's because the notification function will only be triggered ONCE when you get the fund and it will not wait in queue, so if PayPal's push notification service is busy or down when the feature was supposed to be triggered, too bad, you won't get it - So the same concept applied here too, I think.

Overall I rate this application 5 stars, for making me so happy so immediately LOL. I think you should try it out soon too. :)

Corra @ de Cor's Handmades

TUTORIAL - STEP BY STEP BLOG STORE, DCHTOOL001

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TUTORIAL - STEP BY STEP BLOG STORE

This lesson shows:
1. How to create a PayPal Buy Now button.
2. How to insert the PayPal Buy Now button to your blog.
3. How to modify the default PayPal Buy Now button code to include product description URL and product image.

DISCLAIMER:
1. This tutorial does not guarantee sales of your product on your blog.

2. This tutorial only covers the steps and procedures to create a PayPal’s buy single item button, i.e. Buy Now Button. Add to Cart button is not part of this tutorials scope.

3. The code is proven to be workable for Blogger blog. Other blogging platform(s) may or may not be supported. Please consider prior purchase.

4. The information, steps and procedures presented in this tutorial are Blogger.com and PayPal.com specific as of 18th November 2008. Should PayPal or Blogspot.com or both changed their user interface, the author of this tutorial is not obliged for both information update and code upgrade. Please consider prior purchase.

5. All information delivered in the tutorial is gathered and composed base on the author experience with Blogger.com and PayPal.com. This tutorial has not been proof read nor endorsed by neither Blogger.com nor PayPal.com. Please consider prior purchase.

6. Tutorial(s) sold cannot be refund nor exchanged.

Total Steps: 8
Number of pages: 14
Total File size: 826KB

Tutorial: Step-by-step Registering PayPal

It's been a month now so I would like to make a short recap of the whole thing.

I paid my first visit to the beadshop in December 2007, and I start making jewelry since then. Wired jewelry is my favorite at the moment, and I would like to try some of the other techniques too.

Nonetheless, I am composing this Step-by-Step To Register PayPal Guide for those who would need it, though many of you might already have the experience. The information was meant to help the poor souls out there (like myself), I thought it would be very nice if had I this information then. :)

Step 1: Registering PayPal (Step-by-step)
It was a big struggle to me to register my credit card information with PayPal, it took me good 2 weeks just to finally click on the "Confirm" button, here is how it worked:

1) First, register an account at PayPal without providing credit card information if you're not ready, and by the way, in order to sell at Etsy you need a Business type account.

2) Bookmark www.Paypal.com, login and save your password so you don't need to supply your password again on your re-visit. (remember to clear this after this you verified your account with Credit Card)

3) Go sleep if you can't decide, remember to leave your computer on, and place your credit card right next to your computer. (I assume no one would steal your card in your own room)

4) Set your alarm clock to wake you up at very early in the morning, so you will be so blur and grouchy when you wake up. (I assume you are not sharing bed with somebody)

5) Go to your computer, and launch the PayPal website.

6) Tell yourself "Just do it, you have got nothing to lose anyway.",

Here's how you get your account verified:
a) Click on the "Profile" tab.
b) Click on the "Credit Cards" link in the "Financial Information" column.
c) Add a new credit card to your account and then click "Complete Expanded Use Enrollment."
d) You will receive the "Enroll in PayPal's Expanded Use Program" page: please read this page and click "Get Number."
e) On the "Expanded Use Number Sent" page, click Continue.

6) Now you can go back to sleep.

Your Expanded Use Number will be printed on your credit card statement in the transaction description field, next to the Expanded Use Fee. In the item description section of your credit card statement, your four-digit Expanded Use Number will be printed next to or near the PayPal Expanded Use Fee ($1.95 USD). The number will be posted in the following format: four-digit Expanded Use Number, the word "PAYPAL", (no space between the numbers and the word "PAYPAL") followed by two dashes (--), followed by *EXPUSE, (example, 1234PAYPAL--*EXPUSE).

Once you have received your 4-digit Expanded Use Number:
1) Log in to your account at https://www.paypal.com/
2) Click the "Profile" tab.
3) Click the "Credit Cards" link in the Financial Information column.
4) Click the "Complete Expanded Use Enrollment" button.
5) Enter the 4-digit Expanded Use Number in the box provided. If there is more than one credit card listed, you must choose the credit card by using the pull-down menu.
6) Click "Submit."

You're now done verifying your account at PayPal, have fun! :)

Additional Information:
For Malaysian, if you want to withdraw your fund from PayPal, PayPal will charge USD$5 for financial charges. And in order to withdraw your money from your credit card, you will need to negotiate with your Credit Card bank. To date, HSBC is the only bank that can do a FREE fund transfer from your credit card to your HSBC savings account, in short, you will have to have a savings account with them.