How We Picked Between PayPal and Crypto for a $500K/Year Digital Product Launch
The article discusses the challenges faced by a company in managing payment systems for their digital product launch. After experiencing issues with PayPal and Stripe, they implemented a dual payment system using PayPal and Monero. This change significantly reduced frozen funds and increased revenue from Monero transactions.
- ▪The company launched a CLI toolkit for engineers and faced high PayPal fees and frozen funds.
- ▪They initially tried PayPal Payouts and Stripe but encountered significant issues with both services.
- ▪After implementing a dual payment system with PayPal and Monero, frozen funds dropped by 91% and Monero orders grew to 34% of revenue.
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