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

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.