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BigCommerce expands PayPal Credit for e-commerce merchants

By Kate Fitzgerald

Published November 17, 2017, 2:07 p.m. EST

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Updated November 17, 2017, 2:36 p.m. EST

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BigCommerce has added PayPal Credit as a payment option for merchants using its e-commerce platform.

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Austin, Texas-based BigCommerce merchants may include a standalone PayPal Credit button to offer consumers flexible financing, which is particularly appealing for merchants selling higher-ticket items like furniture, BigCommerce said in a Friday press release.

PayPal signage is displayed in front of eBay Inc. headquarters in San Jose, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014. EBay Inc. is spinning off its PayPal division, heeding demands by activist shareholder Carl Icahn and giving the business independence it can use to contend with rising competition from Apple Inc. and Google Inc. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

The e-commerce company has offered PayPal as a checkout option since 2013 and earlier this year BigCommerce added Amazon Pay as another option for its merchants.

Separately, PayPal this week announced it’s selling $5.8 billion in credit receivables to Synchrony Financial, which has been a partner since 2004 for PayPal’s private-label credit cards.

Kate Fitzgerald

Senior Editor, Payments

Kate Fitzgerald is an Arizona-based senior editor for American Banker and longtime payments reporter. Fitzgerald began her journalism career at the... Read full bio

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