Monitor simplifies access to its e-paper
PayPal is one of the largest online payment gateways in the world.
Since online traders fear for the security of their credit cards, many prefer to purchase goods with a secure system
What you need to know:
- Daily Monitor’s Executive Editor Charles Odoobo Bichachi said before, the process was long yet readers want information in real time.
Kampala. Daily Monitor readers can now access the online version of the newspaper (e-paper) easily using the PayPal system.
The use of PayPal implies that readers can make payments online for the services and receive their paper within minutes instead of cumbersome payment methods.
Daily Monitor’s Executive Editor Charles Odoobo Bichachi said before, the process was long yet readers want information in real time.
Mr Bichachi added that PayPal is to make access to the e-paper easier, especially for readers in the diaspora.
“The e-paper is in a Portable Document Format (PDF) and can be read on screen or printed so that people read information as and when it comes,” he noted.
The managing editor - digital, Ms Carol Beyanga, said: “It is exciting that we are able to provide faster ways of giving our readers a copy of the paper. This means less time and money is spent purchasing the product.”
How PayPal works
PayPal is one of the largest online payment gateways in the world.
Since online traders fear for the security of their credit cards, many prefer to purchase goods with a secure system because when you type in the credit card information you wish to use for purchases online using the PayPal website, you do not have to disclose your credit card information to the merchant website.
The integration of Daily Monitor with PayPal therefore allows a seamless harmonisation of data such that access to the e-paper is granted to the users or subscribers without human integration. With this in place therefore, it means one’s credit card information is kept private.
However, Monitor has options such as mobile money and Electronic Funds Transfer, which uses computer and electronic technology in place of cheques and other paper transactions, to pay for the e-paper.
Readers or subscribers will only have to use monitor’s PayPal website (https://epaper.monitor.co.ug) to access the paper.
Ms Beyanga said they plan to make other products available online and once that is done, clients will be able to pay up for them, again online.
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Daily Monitor’s executive editor Charles Odoobo Bichachi said before, the process was long yet readers want information in real time.
