Top 7 Paypal Alternatives For Bloggers and FreeLancers

I have been a Paypal user for almost five years, and I love it to the core. When I was starting online, I had no idea how to receive money from people outside my country, and Paypal made it so easy to receive money from foreign countries.

In my homeland (India) due to PayPal and RBI dispute, I can no longer use PayPal same as others users from countries like U.S.A, U.K., Australia.

For example, one Indian PayPal user cannot send or receive money from another Indian PayPal user. This is one big limitation of PayPal, and so I started digging down some of the best alternative sites to PayPal.

There are many sites that are similar to PayPal with more or fewer features. I will list down some of the best money transfer sites like PayPal, which I have found which researching for an alternate mode to receive payments, and if you know of any other feel free to suggest via comments.

Note: This article is updated on 25th April 2016 to feature new services.

Best 7 Alternative sites to Paypal: 2016 Edition

I’m making this list exclusive for Bloggers and Freelancers, and if you are a small business; I would love to know what tool you are using to send or receive payment from overseas. So, let’s start with our grand list of best PayPal alternatives:

1) Payoneer:

Payoneer is one of the oldest services for global payment, and now they are available in countries like India, Pakistan and many more. Payoneer will let you receive money from U.S. based & European countries. The best part about Payoneer is, the transaction fees are lower, and you will save a lot of money in between. Signing up for Payoneer is free, and once you have done a transaction of $100 using Payoneer, you will get a bonus of $25.

Sign up for Payoneer

2) Transferwise:

 Many of you might not be knowing this popular money transfer website which is created by people behind Skype & backed up by Richard Branson. One of the reasons you might like Transferwise over PayPal is low transaction fees & currency conversion charges are standard here. That meant you won’t lose money in currency conversion.

3) 2CheckOut.com

Many of my online have resorted 2CO for all their online money needs. 2CO has a lot of positive reviews and is considered as a great alternative to Paypal. Here at ShoutMeLoud download store, 2Checkout is used to collect payment from all over the world.

The only downside of 2Checkout is high transaction & transfer fees. If you use 2Checkout, I would suggest keep your Payment release level high so that you save on money transfer fees. Getting onboard with 2Checkout is easy & their supoprt is pretty awesome.

Signup for 2Checkout

Supported currencies for FOREX:

US Dollars, Argentina Peso, Australian Dollars, Brazilian Real, Canadian Dollars, Danish Kroner, Euro,GBP-Sterlings, Hong Kong Dollars, Indian Rupee, Japanese Yen, Mexican Peso, New Zealand Dollars, Norwegian Kroner, South African, Rand, Swedish Kroner, Swiss Francs

4) Skrill

Skrill is a popular alternative for PayPal & Payoneer, because of the Currency conversion rates (they are the best).

I have tried it myself a couple of times and MB transfers works great. They also offer prepaid master card that works on millions of shop worldwide. They also have iPhone & Android app to make transactions from your mobile.

Createfree Skrill account

5)   PayZa.com

Payza is another popular money transfer service that you might have heard of. A great alternative to PayPal & better than PayPal in many cases. Here are few highlights of Payza that I personally like:

• Offers Prepaid card (Master card) that you can use as a Credit card, withdraw fund at ATM. Pretty useful for every netizen.
• Accept payment & withdraw using Bitcoin (Haven’t used it but it will be handy for many of us)
• Supports personal & business account.
• Offers Android app
• Free to set up an account & no monthly or yearly fees.
• Supports Nigeria, Pakistan & 190+ other countries.

You can create a free account or business account depending upon your need. They  have taken great measures to ensure safety of our account & this is something which anyone who is paranoid about safety would love.

Createfree Payza account

6) Remitly

Remitly is another popular service to send money to India & Philippines. This service is cater towards Indian &Philippines freelancers. They are running great promotional offer & one of them is no charge on transfer over $1000. When sending money via Credit or Debit card, the transfer will happen automatically at the flat rate of $3.99. You also have an option to send payment without any fees but that would take 3 days. I believe when you are not in hurry, free is good.

Checkout Remitly 

Few more services:

• Worldremit

These are the top alternatives for Paypal.  if you are an Indian. Frankly, compiling this list was a bit of a pain because all the above-mentioned services have something unique about it. I enjoy using Transferwise & Payoneer due to their credibility & great service.

Do let us know which service do you prefer as PayPal alternative?