The best way to pay online is either through credit card or paypal.com
If you’re using paypal, you don’t have to share your credit card number everytime you make a payment online and since paypal is the most stable way of accepting payment online from advertisers or merchants that you refer (if you don’t want to wait for checques to be mailed to your home). It truly is a must have account. However, in order for you to activate paypal, you will need to have a credit card and if you don’t have one. It’s a real problem. Don’t have a credit card yet? or don’t want to have one ever?
A Debit card is your finest solution. It works much like a credit card with a (cvc) card verification code and all but you’ll have to fund it before making payment online.
Yes, you may use it too to activate your paypal account.
BDO and smart has partnered to bring us SmartMoney. However, it’s not accepted online as of now. I have called their customer service but the answer was… “we still have to partner with paypal in order for it to be accepted”. Now, even if they partner with paypal, you may still encounter problems should you need to make other payments without using paypal.
In the Philippines, UnionBank now has a debit card that is accepted in online payment transactions and yes you can use it to activate your paypal account too!
Union Bank has recently introduce the new EON cyberaccount. It’s an internet based deposit account that answers your online cash transaction needs. Now they even have a paypal guide to take you through the activation process of you paypal account.
Union Bank EON Debit Card for Online Transactions
Visit UnionBank here to apply for an eon card, it only costs Php350.00.
