People Per Hour now accepting Paypal

Posted by Andy Roberts on 18/9/07 • Categorized as London, Microjobs

People per Hour, the London based freelance jobs market startup launched last week has just announced that they are now able to accept that most popular of web currencies, paypal.

Paypal Payments introduced « People Per Hour :: Community
Buyers will be able to use Paypal to pay for posting a project, as well as for depositing funds to their peopleperhour.com account (to be used for paying providers for work done).

It’s amazing. They didn’t announce beforehand that they were about to make an announcement, and then leave everybody to wait for a while. They just announced it as a new facility which already works. But the question is, will companies and entrepreneurs be willing to pay to post projects or is it expected that everything should be free?

Some have ventured the opinion that free jobs posting boards are worth exactly what you pay for them, and will always fill up with spammy scams. On the other hand, freelance workers want some assurance that they will actually get paid, and handling the transactions through an intermediatory can help to build confidence in a fair marketplace.

Have you Registered for your hour on the Fourth Plinth?

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Frankie Roberto
September 18, 2007 • 9:03 pm

Google Checkout is currently quite a lot cheaper…

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Andy Roberts
September 19, 2007 • 11:43 pm

I’m glad you mentioned Google Checkout, Framkie, because over on the peopleperhour blog at wordpress.com Simos Says:

Just to add/clarify on Andy’s blog post in case my previous posting was not 100% clear; there were no extra fees introduced yesterday on our site.

Yesterday, we introduced Paypal as an additional payment method on the site since it is the preferred method of payment for some buyers i.e. in addition to the secure online credit card payments we have been offering so far.

Also in the pipeline, is to introduce/offer a 3rd way of payment processing on the site, namely Google Checkout.

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