Meet Your New Wallet: Mobile Payments With PayPal!

Guest Post By: Shaida K

Close your eyes and imagine living a wallet-free life – crazy right? K, maybe not SO far fetched if you have the PayPal mobile app (which I do and love). If you don’t already use the app, get on it asap: the 21st century awaits. Yup, you can now ditch your wallet and pay for the things you want with your mobile!

Not only is PayPal great for online transactions (it’s easy, secure and very convenient), but with the mobile app everyday purchases are now a breeze – all you need is a mobile phone! The folks at PayPal also rolled out some amazing new features recently. I had a chance to learn about some of them when I attended PayPal’s Apps & Snacks event in Toronto…

I was super excited to learn that many other popular mobile apps now accept PayPal as a method of payment – Uber, Starbucks, Beyond the Rack, Best Buy and Cineplex to name a few. The video below says it all, PayPal’s one-touch feature is amazing especially when you have a hectic, fast-paced life that most of us lead…

Here’s how easy it is to use: I wanted to purchase a snazzy bowtie for my beau from The Naked Tie at the event – to do that, I just had to decide which one I wanted (the hardest part), type PayPal.Me/NakedTie/22.60 into my mobile browser and follow the simple steps. C’est tout.

I also had a chance to make my own fragrance (um, ya! how cool is that?!). As soon as I was ready to pay for my new scent, I just typed in PayPal.Me/Aromachology/20.00, selected “next” and I was done. No fumbling around for cash or cards, just a quick transaction on the mobile — ah, I love technology!

But the feature I love most is the easy peer-to-peer transfer. Because we all have that friend who occasionally forgets their wallet, right? Well, PayPal gave a great demonstration on their new PayPal.Me feature. The feature is free and allows you and your friends & fam to deal with money matters on the spot. That way you don’t have to hound them down if they owe you for all those cab rides, dinners and road trip gas bills! All you need to do is create a link (here) and they can pay you back right away via PayPal. Yes, yes, yes!

I basically haven’t stopped raving about the new features since the event. I’m a huge fan of anything that will help make my life simpler and more efficient so I love this mobile app. If you haven’t already tried it, check it out and let me know what you think! You can learn more about the app and download it here. Also, be sure to follow the hashtag #PYPLMobile starting today (October 5th) to learn how you can win $500 from PayPal!

A special thank you to PayPal for inviting us to the event! All opinions are entirely my own.