Skrill

If you’re looking to allow your customers to pay for your porn services online quickly and easily, then Skrill might be the solution for you. The first thing most people do when they see that Skrill is an online payment service is to compare it with PayPal. The two services are similar in what they accomplish when it comes to easy online payments, but they are much different in key areas where you might find that Skrill might be a better option for you. Skrill doesn’t just allow you to set up payment methods for users with a Skrill account exclusively, which is what PayPal focuses on, but rather it has other integration methods as well that you can leverage in order to have a more flexible approach to online payments.

Various online payment options to choose from

Skrill was founded on July 27th, 2001. It has its HQ in London, United Kingdom, and it provides services worldwide. The company gives businesses the ability to offer payments and money transfers made through the Internet, and it allows the same thing to end-users too. End-users can pay and get paid through their private accounts. The focus of Skrill is on low-cost international money transfers, and they are known for their competitive fees and transfer rates. In 2015, Skrill was bought out by Paysafe Group, which is now its parent company. They provide payment gateways, wallets, prepaid cards, and PSP.

So, Skrill allows you to integrate different payment methods on your porn platform. I think that this is a much more flexible solution if you want to have a credit card payment method, a digital wallet checkout, or something like a bank transfer instead. There is even an option for integrating Skrill with eCommerce ready solutions out of the box. Each of the solutions has its pros and cons, and I will outline all of those as we go through the solutions one by one. There are four of them in total to check out, and they are: Quick Checkout, Digital Wallet, Rapid Transfer, and finally, Shopping Carts.

Quick checkout is the classic online payment solution

First off, we’re going to check out quick checkout (see what I did there?). One of the things that makes Quick Checkout one of the best options is that it looks the most professional. It’s the most basic form of payment where the person simply puts in the card details and pays the displayed price on your website. The payment goes through a secure system and it’s all managed by a Skill Merchant account. It’s really good, and it’s effortless to set up as well. You just have one contract and one API to integrate into your app or website and you’re good to go! Everything gets set up quickly if you have a good dev team.

You can probably figure out how to set this up yourself if you’ve got half a brain. The benefits of this system are really numerous. Apart from being simple to integrate, it also has great chargeback protection. That way, someone can’t just pay for your porn subscription or camgirl tokens or whatever it is you’re selling, use them, and then get their money back. Also, it’s fully certified with both Visa and Mastercard processing and there are over 100 local payment methods to choose from, which gives you a lot of flexibility. There’s also the benefit of it being really quick. Your porn site consumers don’t have to register for a Skrill account; they just use their card. Over 40 currencies are supported, and you’ve got great fraud and risk management as a service from Skrill, so you don’t have to worry about any of that.

Digital wallets are great for people who already have Skrill

Digital wallets are more tied into Skrill. A person has to have a Skrill account with an open wallet that they are going to put money in. Then they can use that wallet to shop anywhere that supports Skrill. There are plenty of sites that support Skrill in this way, and it’s also becoming more popular with many people, so many of them already have their Skrill accounts set up and ready to use. This is great because it means it will be less of a hassle for those people to pay. However, it might seem like more of a hassle for people who don’t have a Skrill account since they need to open a Skrill account and add money to their digital wallet on said account. This might mean less people will be ready to use your porn services.

That being said, this form of payment also comes with many amazing benefits. For one, you also have just one contract and one API to integrate to your app or website. Then, just like quick checkout, over 100 local payment methods are available for you to choose from. You will also see improved conversion rates from people who already have a Skrill account and digital wallet set up with funds in it. They can pay with just one tap and that’s as quick as it gets. Chargeback protection, a multicurrency account, and enhanced fraud management are all things that you will get with this method as well.

Rapid transfers for instant direct bank wiring

Rapid Transfer is a pretty different solution than the two that we just looked at. This is a form of instant bank transfer, and it supports over 3000 banks, mostly in Europe, and more specifically mainly in the European Union, with some exceptions that you can check out on Skrill’s website. Users will be able to transfer funds directly from their bank account without leaving your website, which is amazing. Skrill also has various discounts for fees made with Rapid Transfer transactions from time to time. Depending on when you’re reading this, they might still offer just 0.5% fees on direct bank transfers, which is nuts!

The benefits of Rapid Transfers are also different from the first two methods, but there are also similarities such as chargeback protection. Now, when it comes to some more specific benefits to Rapid Transfers, you have things like the fact that payments are instant, they’re secure because of the banks’ rigorous security measures, then you also have higher customer conversion rates because people trust this form of payment. Your users also don’t have to register anywhere, which is better for them, and the refunds are automated, so you don’t have to worry about all that legal stuff in the background.

Out-of-the-box ecommerce plugin support solution

Skrill has also teamed up with various out-of-the-box e-commerce solutions such as WooCommerce, Magento, Shopify and many others to make it easier for you to integrate an online payment method with those services. This form of online payment is good if you have some kind of online sex shop, or you have online escort services that you want people to pay for through your website as well. So, with that in mind, you just have one plugin to install and you’re ready to start selling! And remember, you can combine the plugin with the various eCommerce solutions that I already mentioned and many more.

If you’re worried about whether this plugin from Skrill is PCI compliant, don’t be! It’s fully PCI compliant, so you don’t have to worry about security problems and fraud. It’s also a plugin that is optimized for mobile, and has worldwide coverage. Again, over 40 currencies can be managed with one merchant account and credit and debit cards are accepted with over a hundred local payment options. And if you ever get stuck anywhere, you have Skrill’s amazing customer support, which speaks a hell of a lot of languages. I called them up just to see how responsive they are, and I was quite satisfied with them.

Finally, if we’re looking at Skrill from a designer’s point of view, their website is very clear and concise, so you can easily just follow their instructions and see what they need from you to get the ball rolling! Just go to their website and start implementing one of their solutions so that you can finally start selling your porn services and start making some money, damnit! Stop wasting your time, and start cashing in!