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Use PayPal to Go Premium

Posted by Andrew Sinkov on 28 Jan 2009

Posted by Andrew Sinkov on 28 Jan 2009

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You can now upgrade to Evernote Premium via PayPal. PayPal allows you to pay via credit card and a number of other methods. It’s particularly useful for those living outside the United States.

Prefer not to use PayPal? You can always use Google Checkout. We’re easy like that.

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What are the Evernote Premium goodies?

Evernote Premium gives you a bunch of great features for only $5/month or $45/year:

  • File sync: Synchronize any file type across all your computers and devices
  • Increased monthly allowance: 500MB each month
  • Faster image recognition: Get front-of-the-line image recognition
  • Stronger security: SSL encryption everywhere
  • Better support: Premium level support
  • No ads in public notebooks

And stay tuned for more, great premium-only features coming soon.

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  • Shanti —

    I’m goin to upgrade my free evernote Account, but I’ve trouble with paypal. I’m from Europe, and have no creditcard. My PayPal Account has enough Money to pay for the next years ;-) and there were no problems with checkout in other shops.. Can you help me with that?

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  • Shanti —

    Okay, no answer… if you post your paypal Email-Adress, i would send you the money directly via paypal. Please fix this problem!! :-(

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  • Koen —

    I’m going to upgrade my free evernote Account, but I’ve trouble with paypal. I’m from Europe, and have no creditcard.

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  • Peter —

    Still the same for me. PayPal does not work here in Germany with Evernote only it seems.
    This way you will have to live without my money. Maybe you can keep up with yet another round of VC funding instead of getting money from us.

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  • Rainer —

    Same here, paypal does not work in germany… not with 5 usd / month, or with 45 usd / month… on this way, no money of my account.

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    • Heather —

      PayPal has different acceptance rules for one-time purchases (e.g. buy a scarf on ebay) versus recurring subscription payments. They are much more strict for a recurring payment. In particular, they require that you have a “real” credit card number on file with them that can be used for future payments. I.e. you can’t pay for a recurring $5 subscription even if you have a $10k balance in your PP account unless you also have a linked credit card.

      We’ve found that Germans in particular frequently have problems with this PayPal policy because their PP account does not have an acceptable credit card linked to it. Whatever cards they may have associated with their PP records do not meet PP’s threshold for anti-fraud. It is a unique problem to Germany – we haven’t seen it in any other country.

      We have no control over this policy; PayPal gives us very limited visibility on their anti-fraud policies. We’ve asked specifically for them to make our account as permissive as possible (since the cost of fraud for us is low).

      We suggest you use your credit card for direct payment or via Google Checkout, as those are much less stringent.

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  • André —

    Hey Heather,

    I DO have a valid credit card on file with paypal – I got a lot of other subscribtions that run smoothly trhough paypal. Just evernote does not.

    It is not a Paypal Policy thing – but more a “How I set up my paypal for recurring payments” thing.

    Paying directly with a credit card is not so popular in Germany because we are always concerned about our data … ;-)

    You lose a lots of customers. I mean paying customers. If you keep the attitude – “It is their fault.” There are ways to work this out – I mean I personally do accept paypal recurring payments in my business and it runs smoothly. Yes, even in Germany. ;-))

    What do you think?

    Greetings,

    André

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