Ask HN: How do international web apps handle payment through Paypal?

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I am looking at Paypal's Website Payments Pro programme, and they require the business to be situated in the US.

How do I charge my clients - seamlessly without sending them to paypal's site, given that I am located in Jamaica?

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You may want to have a payment processor as a backup solution, they will provide their own APIs to their services. Relying on PayPal alone can be risky.

Can you recommend any that might work for me? I am international - Jamaica specifically.

I am yet to find a payment processor that will work for me, other than Paypal.

I am launching a SaaS app that bills monthly recurring.

Thoughts?

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