How was your Christmas? For most sellers, Christmas is a busy time. Between one fifth and one third of UK retail sales occur in the lead up to the festive season. Imagine achieving that every...
With just over two weeks left until Christmas, the rush for last minute gifts will be starting for many. However, new research commissioned by PayPal has revealed how the traditional shopping dash...
Now Black Friday and Cyber Monday have both been and gone, it’s a non-stop, break-neck run up to Christmas. You’ve done so much preparation already – after all, between one fifth and one...
Welcome to 60 seconds with... where we interview a great business every month. This month, we met with Tony Jackson, E-Commerce Manager & Developer for Pretavoir, to get his best business advice...
We’ve all been there. Wondering how everyone’s going to chip in for a colleague’s leaving gift. Working out how to split the deposit and pay for a group holiday. Or spending weeks chasing...
Here’s a stat that might surprise you. Last year, Singles Day sales were higher than Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined. In just 24 hours, Chinese consumers spent a massive £14.2 billion on...
Welcome to 60 seconds with... where we interview a great business every month. This month, we met with Sana Ali Aamir, managing director of bloomon UK, to get the low-down on her best business...
Welcome to 60 seconds with... where we interview a great business every month. This month, we met with Alexia Inge, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Cult Beauty, to get the low-down on her best business...
After just a few years, Black Friday is firmly set in the minds of UK shoppers as a major reason to buy. And, with clear evidence of customers bringing their Christmas shopping forwards in the...
“Fun, funky and family-oriented,” OLPRO are specialists in colourful and technical camping and caravanning gear designed to meet the demands of Britain’s wilderness and its ever-changing...
Whether it is the phone alarm waking you in the morning or that last minute Whatsapp to a friend before you go to bed - the smartphone is central to most people’s lives. And now we’ve seen the...
Welcome to 60 seconds with... where we interview a great business every month. This month, we met with WeGotTickets.comCEO and co-founder, Dave Newton, to get the low-down on his best business...
Every day is both precious and pressured for a young adult living with life-threatening illness. The long grind of diagnosis, treatment and recovery takes its toll on the individual and their family.
Partnering with small businesses may be in PayPal’s DNA, but our technology is equally at home in the stores of larger, more established retailers as well. For example, global eCommerce consultancy,
Welcome to 60 seconds with... where we interview a great business every month. This month, we met with GardenSite.co.uk's Partner, David Coton to get the low-down on his best business advice and...
Halloween is closer than you think and, as Game of Thrones fans will tell you, winter is coming. As the clocks go back, UK shoppers will spend more time on after-dark, online shopping. Already, 1...
"These days, people want more than to just walk into a box that sells clothes,” explain Jake Patterson and James Wright, co-founders of surf lifestyle retailer Watershed. Which explains why...
This month, upstart watchmaker and PayPal business Omologato launches its James Hunt Official Chronograph, honouring the famously maverick Formula 1 champion. It’s a milestone for founder Shami...
Thyngs, the mobile proximity platform, has announced the addition of PayPal to its payment options for charities taking cashless mobile donations via its platform. Thyngs will add PayPal as a new...
We know running a business is time-consuming and you don’t always have time to call up to ask or search the web looking for help with your PayPal Business account. So we’ve developed some...
With 400 high street shops and an active presence on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, TheWorks.co.uk has become part of our everyday. The retailer – which sells toys, games, crafts, stationery...
Overseas exporting is estimated to be worth £43.7 billion[i] to British businesses by 2020. However, for small businesses who are looking to establish an international presence, getting started...
Welcome to 60 seconds with... where we interview a great business every month. This month, we met with MH Star UK's Area General Manager, Arvind Panchmatia to get the low-down on his best business...
Partnering with small businesses is in PayPal’s DNA. For years, we’ve been working closely with hundreds of thousands of the UK’s most innovative, enterprising companies – offering faster,...
PayPal are working with KRCS to help support the Nottingham Street Food Club within the Intu Victoria Centre, Nottingham, which launched at the end of April 2017. An industrial style setting with...
Welcome to 60 seconds with... where we interview a great business every month. This month, we met with BorrowMyDoggy's founder and CEO, Rikke Rosenlund to get the low-down on her best business...
Last Monday and Tuesday, PayPal attended Retail Business Technology Expo (RBTE) 2017 at London Olympia (May 8-9) in the UK. RBTE is Europe’s fastest growing trade event for the retail and...
Welcome to 60 seconds with... where we interview a great business every month. This month, we met with Prezzybox’s founder and MD, Zak Edwards to get the low-down on his best business advice and...
At PayPal, we understand that staying on top of everything when you’re a small business owner can be enough to give you sleepless nights. Invoices, payments, refunds, withdrawals, customer...
“It’s really hard to imagine not being able to put a sock on a child” explains Mel Thomsett, but this was the challenge that inspired her to start her business. After her son was diagnosed...
Welcome to 60 seconds with... where we interview a great business every month. This month, we met with Looking4Parking’s commercial director, Martin Mansell to get the low-down on his best...
While 2016 proved to be a year of surprises, both at home and abroad, it was also an extremely successful one for British business, especially if you happen to be one of the UK’s 5.4 million...
Welcome to 60 seconds with... where we interview a great business every month. This month, we met with Lash Inc.'s founder and owner, Louise Tierney, to get the low-down on her best business...
Jaguar drivers can now use their car’s touchscreen to pay for fuel with PayPal through a new cashless payment app at Shell service stations in the UK. Rather than using a card at the pump, or...
New research from PayPal UK, Google and OC&C Strategy Consultants has revealed that mobile shopping is growing faster than anyone could have predicted. The Mobile Mandate report is based on an...
Wondering how you can expand your business internationally? Looking to discover what customers in other countries are buying? There’s a world of potential customers out there, just waiting to...
Welcome to 60 seconds with... where we interview a great business every month. This month, we met with Depop's CEO, Maria Raga, to get the low-down on her best business advice and highlights in a...
In today’s busy world, convenience is king. Successful businesses need to adapt their services to ensure that from the first moment to the last, everything is tailored to enhance the customer...
Hi Ted, how was the trip? Life changing. Personally and professionally it pushed me all the way and to be honest even now, a few months later, the sheer enormity of it all is still processing. So...
Meet Luis, who works as part of our communications team in Dublin as a Creative Designer. Luis used his PayPal sabbatical to take a trip which had been in planning for over a decade. A trip which...
Our latest study has revealed that many small British businesses are missing out on sales by limiting the number of ways they can get paid by customers. Stuck in the 20th century We spoke to 2,000...
One year on after Tempcover integrated PayPal, we caught up with their CEO, Alan Inskip, to see how they were getting on. PayPal (PP): Tell us a bit about your business. Alan Inskip (AI): We are...
As more people expect to pay for goods and services without cash, many businesses have adapted quickly to cater to this. Whilst shops and restaurants offer a variety of payment methods, many taxis...
This July marks one year since PayPal started publicly trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange as an independent company again. Or put another way, it’s our first anniversary! The traditional theme...
Distinctive Chesterfields is a furniture company known for its hand-crafted sofas, from its fabric Chesterfield sofa to its brown leather bestsellers. Founded in 2006 by husband and wife team,...
On Wednesday evening in a packed room at the Hilton Park Lane, digital pioneers and influencers from both the public, private and non-profit sectors gathered to find out who would triumph at the...
Aisling! You made it ! Congratulations — how was your experience? It was absolutely incredible; a different world. It was such a culture shock. I was really taken aback from the moment I arrived...
Hi Paola! What do you get up to at PayPal? Hi! I am the Leader for the EMEA Senior Customer Service group in PayPal (ICA). My team supports other internal customer departments as well as the...
Internet Fusion is a UK-based online retailer specialising in sports clothing and equipment. Founded by action sports enthusiasts Ian Bristow, Martin Brailsford, and Dominic Scott, the company...
Skippering a dinghy solo around Ireland on the icy Atlantic and Irish Sea, Ted Sargent, a Manager of Global Employee Communications, is in for the sail of his life in just a few days, all for a...
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