PayPal has updated its smartphone application by radically changing it, making it easier to use, more modern and with new features. In particular, the PayPal app, which is among the safest online payment methods, allows you to use the money from your credit card or associated bank account to pay anything, even theoretically in physical stores.
Since payments with PayPal are instantaneous, you could pay with your mobile phone and the app, safely, without using cash or credit card.
The only problem is that, in this case (only in purchases with shops and not in transfers to friends or family), whoever receives the money must pay a commission (and perhaps for this reason a real and not online shop can hardly accept the payment with Paypal).
However, to send money to friends, even if it were 2 Euros to be returned or money to be shared for a gift, you can use PayPal for free and with extreme convenience.
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The new app connects to the phone's address book and allows you to send money ultra-fast to friends or relatives just by touching their name.
With the same ease, you can request money from people who will receive a payment notification.
Remember that with PayPal payments are free if they are not international and if you use the associated bank account or the PayPal balance itself.
In order not to have any surprises, it is better to keep some money on the PayPal balance, maybe a hundred Euros, to be used only for micro-transactions, that is to exchange some money with friends or other people, at a distance, without necessarily having to meet them .
Those who already had the PayPal app will notice that the most obvious difference is the user interface, now much more essential and orderly, straight to the point.
From the home screen it is much easier to check your balance, manage payments and settings.
It is also easy to check all past transactions from the past three years.
The app can be protected with a PIN, so that every time you open it, you will not need to enter your password but only your PIN, faster and more secure.
As mentioned above, you can also pay the shops with PayPal, if possible and you can add other credit cards from many countries, in addition to the one already registered in the account.
The app can then be used all over the world, making it a convenient travel companion when you don't have cash or don't want to pull out the ATM.
Download PayPal from the stores for Android and for iPhone .
From this page you can find all the required information and activate the PayPal security PIN to use the app and pay for anything from your mobile phone .
