Tuesday, May 05, 2009

PayPal to launch local developer/partner programme

PayPal has announced it will be launching a new Certified Developer and Partner Programme down-under.

The announcement, dated 28th April 2009, released by PR company - the De Wintern Group, said that the programme would "recruit developers and solution providers to help meet the growing demand for online payments outside of the retail sector."

I'm not sure what this says about the four local Certifed PayPal developers already listed on the company's website at
https://www.paypal-portal.com/developer/directory/#Asia%20Pacific

Maybe they don't work outside of the retail sector. Or maybe PayPal feels a new special breed of payment gateway developer is needed to deal with non-profit businesses.

In any event PayPal is also promising new tools and resources specifically for local non-profits.

Apparently a localized version of the web-site template service offered by US company, Blackbaud will be released down under later this year. It will be called BlackBaudNow.

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