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PayPal.com Gets a Makeover [UI]

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Re: PayPal.com Gets a Makeover [UI]

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Post by oneplusone »

trg2 wrote: post #22

Hi. I work at PayPal. Really good feedback from everyone, so thanks for that. This redesign has been a long time coming, and the team that launched it are some of the most brilliant I've ever been lucky enough to work with. As for the internal UI, that's changing soon too. If you're interested in checking out the beta, activate in-store checkout with your PayPal account at paypal.com/anywhere and you'll see the new a…

Any chance you can post a screenshot? /anywhere is restricted to only certain locations or accounts.

Also does this internal UI change also mean the adaptive payments checkout UI will be changing? Will you guys still try and force everybody to create paypal accounts?

Re: PayPal.com Gets a Makeover [UI]

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Post by v33ra »

moe wrote: post #38

The title is misleading. Paypal's homepage got the makeover. The rest of Paypal.com (i.e. the actual application) is still as terrible as ever...

it's not just the homepage redesign - the US customers should be able to see the complete redesigned site [As per the official PayPal blog: https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2012/06/paypal-com-gets-a-make... ]

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Post by fredoliveira »

veb wrote: post #6
TheKidCoder wrote: post #3

Great, they redesigned the side of that site that is useless to an actual user of PayPal.

It's a lot of work to redesign a website, especially one with lots of weird pages. Makes me wonder of how much of an undertaking that would be... perhaps it would be easier to rebrand, build the same thing in a better way, with their API.

They've had several years to do it already. It is a big undertaking, yes, but it's not like they don't have the resources.

Re: PayPal.com Gets a Makeover [UI]

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Post by tmcw »

rurounijones wrote: post #2

"When it came to updating our website, we brought in an expert: You." As soon as I read that I closed the tab. I thought it was pretty much agreed by now that relying on the "wisdom of the crowd" is useless when it comes to things that require specialised skills like design. Honestly, I wouldn't trust me to design a nice UI, why on earth would paypal.

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Re: PayPal.com Gets a Makeover [UI]

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Post by ppalavilli »

Ygg2 wrote: post #29

Nice to see someone from PayPal here, so I have a question that is of interest to me. Why doesn't PayPal accept payments from countries that are outside of its PayPal networks? I understand that in the past you could choose to pay even if you don't have PayPal account.

Hi - 2 separate things I guess. One can still pay with a credit card directly without requiring a PayPal account (we call it guest payment) but in most cases it depends on how the merchant has configured his payment options. But that said there are a few corner cases where we cannot allow direct credit card payments (eg. Preapprovals in Adaptive Payments) due to credit card policies.

Regarding accepting payments from countries that are outside of PayPal networks, it really comes down to what is allowed by the local govt authorities around cross border transactions.

Re: PayPal.com Gets a Makeover [UI]

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Post by josscrowcroft »

da_n wrote: post #39

"When it came to updating our website, we brought in an expert: You." I'm confused, is this a sneak peak or something? If not this seems pretty disingenuous. All they have done is put a lick of paint on the front door. I would rather they spent their resources speeding up and streamlining the site, it is painfully slow and confusing to navigate.

I think you mean "sneak peek"

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