Comments on: Did the 4½ hour PayPal outage impact you? http://billingonmobile.com/2009/08/05/did-the-4%c2%bd-hour-paypal-outage-impact-you.html What matters in mobile billing Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:49:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: TPM http://billingonmobile.com/2009/08/05/did-the-4%c2%bd-hour-paypal-outage-impact-you.html/comment-page-1#comment-178 TPM Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:25:57 +0000 http://billingonmobile.com/?p=408#comment-178 Whilst I was not affected by the PayPal outage, I think Premium SMS billing has many challenges particularly for publishers. The main one, which I feel cause the most resitance is the time it takes to receive revenue. Most operators require at least 90 days before you receive revenues, and whilst this is logical creates a cash flow problem for businesses, as you are always at least one quarter behind in receiving the revenue. PayPal as a payment method is only still succesful because it has reached critical mass, and users have not adopted other payment methods as readily as they have PayPal. Whilst I was not affected by the PayPal outage, I think Premium SMS billing has many challenges particularly for publishers. The main one, which I feel cause the most resitance is the time it takes to receive revenue. Most operators require at least 90 days before you receive revenues, and whilst this is logical creates a cash flow problem for businesses, as you are always at least one quarter behind in receiving the revenue.

PayPal as a payment method is only still succesful because it has reached critical mass, and users have not adopted other payment methods as readily as they have PayPal.

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