GoDaddy payments to Non US sellers - Poll

[Joe Styler]

I want to get a sense of how helpful it would be to open up payments to customers outside of the United States via PayPal for any domain sales revenue you earn. Understanding that you would have to still follow PayPal's guidelines, i.e. if they do not currently pay in your country this will not be an option for you.

Please vote in the Poll and beyond PayPal please list in the comments the #1 way you would want to be paid if you live outside of the United States.

 

[Abdullah Abdullah]

Additionally, I see NO reason why people can not recieve payments as little as $50 that is being tied in various godaddy account just because they do not meet the initial threshold. It is wrong, very wrong to hold people's money no matter how godaddy tries to justify their claims, especially where domain names have been transferred to buyers, while the seller is yet to get paid.

I had $120 sale and had to wait for than a year to get paid when I kept bugging Joe . I even told them give me as store credit which they finally did

 

[cloudguy]

Guys, take a look at the email message from GoDaddy saying 'You've been paid'. In that message they say for what domain names the payment is sent and next to the domain name it says 'METHOD - TIPALTI'. GoDaddy is using services of Tipalti which sends wire transfers to GoDaddy's customers. Then you go to Tipalti.com website or simply open this link http://tipalti.com/how-it-works/pay-methods/ and you can see various payment methods that are supported by Tipalti. One of them is Payoneer so GoDaddy can make agreement or whatever they need to do so Tipalti can pay their customers via Payoneer or there can always happen a direct agreement between GoDaddy and Payoneer.

Why Payoneer? Unlike Paypal, Payoneer is supported in every country in the world and you get an ATM card in the standard package so your available payoneer balance is always with you.

 

[cloudguy]

@Joe,

It's great you finally decided to add more payout options, but since Paypal doesn't offer their services in all countries worldwide, it would be much more effective to add Payoneer or Skrill since everyone from every corner in the world can be paid using atm cards issued by above mentioned services.

 

[jideofor]

I don't think all those you wrote up there is for me. I have my reason for requesting for payoneer or skrill and nobody is disputing Paypal's dominance. However, there is still a huge number of countries where paypal isn't fully operational. In Nigeria, we can only spend but can't receive paypal funds. How do you handle cases like mine, huh? Payoneer and Skrill are fully operational.

What I think is appropriate to say is compatibility with Godaddy's financial status.

 

[Abdullah Abdullah]

Flippa use Payoneer , the bank service , BB also.does..Just today I received $1500 from BB for domain I sold there. So @Joe Styler , perhaps you guys should strongly consider Payoneer too.

 

[Azwan Asban]

I think godaddy should focus to paypal first.

 

[cloudguy]

Already 10 votes for Payoneer but I'm sure there would be even more votes casted if payoneer was an option in the poll.

 

[cloudguy]

@Joe,

It's clear that people want PayPal as payee option on GoDaddy auctions but I'm quite sure they prefer Payoneer even more because it's a service convenient for millions in all countries without restrictions.

 

[MediaOmatic]

@Joe Styler
Hello I do prefer Paypal, as a payment method I sold my domain through auction at $20 with Godaddy but up to now there is no way I can get my funds so that money is still bending with you guys don't what to do just gave up.

 

[Abdullah Abdullah]

Hi JOE,

GoDaddy should implement Payoneer ...
(Way better than PayPal IMO)

Thanks.

Within ten mins my payment from BB arrived in my Payoneer account and after that I just went to my nearest ATM and withdrew the money in the same hour. How fast can it get? Payoneer is setting the par very very high

 

[donname]

@Joe Styler

First of all, welcome the initiative to do this survey.

In particular, I have received payment through Paypal a couple months ago, after several complaints and long time lost, in that long wait. But that is an old story

Undoubtedly include Paypal for non-residents is a great decision because it is an essential tool for investors in general. since the transactions take dynamism is more feasible largest trading volume since, it is certain to get paid on time. As in all businesses the cashflow is very important.

It would be fantastic to include a Skrill and Payoneer too.

 

[Serengeti]

@Joe,

Thanks for Following on the previous request we had asked for .. It would be Superb to have at least Paypal to begin with and later build on other payment methods and the sooner the better. It's appreciated.

 

[GBA]

Paypal + Payoneer

Europe

 

[London555]

It is not something we will be doing in the near future. We analyzed it and there is a good amount of work to be done to make it happen.

Thank you for the reply and could I please ask you to post this exact reply under the ".ch general discussion" thread so people know what to expect if they buy a .ch from GoDaddy. Most thought it would be straightened out by now. The fact that you say "it would require a lot of work" is amazing-it didn't seem to require that much work for GoDaddy to sell them to us. Thank you.

 

[CamMK27]

@Joe Styler

When will the PayPal option going to be implemented. I think we have enough votes here now in favor of PayPal option. How long does it take to get it implemented?

 

[nones70]

Add Payoneer, Skrill and PayPal as payee methods for every country in the world.

 

[jideofor]

Add Payoneer, Skrill and PayPal as payee methods for every country in the world.

like deez007 stated earlier, this isn't something that warrants creating a thread for; they should know what payment method appeals to the larger populace where paypal is not option. To the best of my knowledge, many, aside stubborn paypal, payment processor are widely available across the globe.

Skrill, Scripe, Payoneer (leader of all for convenience and easy access of funds) and Neteller

 

[Abdullah Abdullah]

Really? You had to wait 1 year until you got paid for your sale???? ?? ?

More than one year. Based on my country, I have check, and wire, Wire needs to have $1000 net before they can send .

 

[alcy]

I think Joe knows stats better than me.. but the reason they say they are working on adding paypal now is not something totally random as some may think, but because they have received more requests for it (and I don't mean this namepros thread only.. cause they got phone support, email etc) than for other payment methods.

paypal has ~200 million active users. and is by far the number one payment method on the planet. a company like gd has no choice but to take this into account whne trying to decide if they'll take paypal or some other thing like skrill. everything is always based on majorities. because it is impossible to satisfy all. and bad biz to satisify minority only.

which is not to say I don't understand what it means when a country does not allow paypal.
and I hope one day they do what is needed to accomodate the entire planet. or paypal does that by expanding their services to all places. last I checked they are not exactly decreasing the list of eligible countries... nor standing still with it... so the only way is up imo..

good luck.. and again, thanks for this well overdue but fantastic move godaddy!

 

[jideofor]

What you fail to understand is that 1 of the options accommodate everyone(payoneer) while the other segregates (paypal). So when you talk about stat, it does not hold water here.

I put it to you again alcy, which is better? one that covers the whole world (payoneer) and another that covers a section of the world (paypal)?

 

[alcy]

Payoneer is cheap, less fees, they also do bank transfer free of charge. That would also be nice if GoDaddy add it as payee.

and I'm sure payoneer would be what they'd be adding now instead of paypal. IF they got more requests for payoneer than paypal. but they didn't. unfair as this may sound to some.. it's also just that simple.. it's nothing but a number of requests received for one thing.. versus another.

sure there could be some technicalities and agreements involved.. bulk fees to pay.. discounts etc.. its things of which none of us are aware.. only gd+skrill or gd+paypal know the details... but.. I'm still betting its strictly based on what most people requested.

 

[jideofor]

Payoneer is cheap, less fees, they also do bank transfer free of charge. That would also be nice if GoDaddy add it as payee.

AND they have wider coverage than Paypal due to their mode of operation as opposed to Paypal. The only advantage paypal has is that their are the pioneer and have the US government backing them. I don't see anything much special about them.

 

[alcy]

What you fail to understand is that 1 of the options accommodate everyone(payoneer) while the other segregates (paypal). So when you talk about stat, it does not hold water here.

I put it to you again alcy, which is better? one that covers the whole world (payoneer) and another that covers a section of the world (paypal)?

I'm taking guess with results here a bit.. but which part of:

99% current gd clients requested paypal
1% requested payoneer

is not holding water?

 

[cloudguy]

We are not stopping at PayPal. I understand that there are many places that PayPal is not accepted as a payment method. We are looking at the other options as well and are exploring different options to help make payments easier for the non US based customers.

It's good to hear that.

E.g. I'm a regular seller on GoDaddy marketplace with to date 140 domains sold there. It's easy to calculate how much profit GoDaddy yields from my sales. Although I'm not from the USA, Paypal has always been available for me as GoDaddy payee. However that didn't help me at all since Paypal isn't fully operational in my country (we only have send option).

It happened many times for me that I accumulated $980 from my sales on GoDaddy but needed to wait to reach $1000 threshold in order to get my net proceeds via wire transfer. It's sometimes frustrating to know that you earned money but don't have it in your hands.

Hopefully Joe, you will add Payoneer next because they have millions of customers already (the most votes on this forum also) and provide their services without restrictions based on country of residence.

 

[Joe Styler]

I just wanted to circle back and say we Launched Payments Via Paypal this week for International Customers. There is a $25 threshold to pay - we have to owe you $25 or more for a payment to take place and there is a $1 fee per disbursement. We cover the Paypal fees for sending money but there may be an additional fee for currency exchange etc charged by PayPal or your bank.

If you want to be paid via PayPal make sure you go into your account and update your payee information to PayPal https://www.godaddy.com/help/change-your-payee-information-1369

There are other things we are considering that will also help with non U.S. payments in the future.