When will ebay (Australia) be intrtoducing Adyen

[affordablequalitybrandedproducts]

Does anyone know, with absolute certainty, when ebay (Australia) intends to include / intrtoduce Adyen?

[wide-world-of-stamps]

I've seen it when scrolling through the site preferences section.

[brerrabbit585]

That's what I thought but I couldn't see it when I checked before. Maybe I was looking in the wrong place this time.

[digital*ghost]

It'll most likely happen here a season or so after full roll-out in the US, so I'd keep an eye on things over there to try and gauge when that will be. 

I'm pretty sure things are still in the opt-in only stage over there, though, 

https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/service-and-payments/managed-payments-on-ebay.html

[brerrabbit585]

I can see a couple of potential problems (or issues) after reading your link. At the moment we don't have to trust that a buyer has paid if the dollar sign is showing, but we can check whether the money is showing in our paypal account so we have a back-up. No doubt they'll send us an email to say the buyer has paid, but that could be subject to tampering by scammers.

I really don't want a deposit in my bank account every single day that I get sales. I can manage my paypal account with multiple payments showing but I like to keep my bank records separate - and a lot simpler. I won't be able to pay my fees from my paypal funds either. It all makes for more complicated record-keeping for me.

Going back to their statement about paypal being available until 2023 but most payments will be through Adyen by 2021, how do they figure this? Are they going to find a means to push their own system, eg. discounts or the like?

[brerrabbit585]

From the link digital*ghost has in her post:

We are planning for the next wave in 2019 (US), and full global roll out starting 2020.

[digital*ghost]

At the moment, aside from the info available from eBay, I'm just modeling my assumptions or expectations on how it's handled on the other site - eg I believe sellers who have opted in on eBay can't accept PayPal at all, so credit / debit card payments is all their buyers can use, and that may be the same when it's introduced here, but there are some countries where the version of managed payments (on the other site) still isn't available, so PayPal is the only option for sellers in those countries, which might account for the statement about most payments being through eBay's system when the system rolls out further, i.e. for a while there might be some countries where PayPal is the only payment option. (I was able to keep PayPal separate from their payment system but that's changing in a couple of weeks, buyers can still use PP, but it will go to my shop account, not my PayPal account, so I initially thought eBay might try integrating PP with their system as well, but if it won't be available to buyers after 2023, it seems like they don't plan on doing that ). 

On that site, payments are accessible the day after they're made, with sellers able to select daily, weekly, fortnightly or monthly deposits (daily has a minimum amount before the deposit will activate, though), plus the option to request earlier deposits before the next one is scheduled, so I was expecting eBay to do something similar. Not sure I like the idea of daily deposits, either, as it seems a bit messy. I have one shop set to weekly and another set to monthly on the other site, and i have a set routine for those payments, with most of it being transferred to other accounts on a weekly basis, to account for GST, income tax , postage supplies that I buy in bulk etc, while everything that goes into PayPal is used for my stock purchases and other expenses, so I am not looking forward to having this system ruined. 😞 

I notice eBay mention protection against chargebacks in the above link, but not in their seller protection policy  I have a feeling that means the same requirements will apply (proof of delivery). 

[affordablequalitybrandedproducts]

I might be "thick" but I have looked at digital*ghost's link and I see the timeframe being stated as ...

"We are planning to expand the experience to more sellers in mid 2019. By 2021, we expect to have transitioned a majority of our customers." 

I cant find find where they say ... "full global roll out starting 2020"

I hope that ebay have people who monitor this discussion board and that they can post here, an intended start date for Australia.sothat I/we can properly plan the future for our businesses too.

[enigmabear]

I'm afraid eBay staff do not read here and do not respond to people here

Every so often they will post a YouTube video about how much they support and reward sellers (sic) but that's it

[brerrabbit585]

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@affordablequalitybrandedproducts wrote:

I might be "thick" but I have looked at digital*ghost's link and I see the timeframe being stated as ...

"We are planning to expand the experience to more sellers in mid 2019. By 2021, we expect to have transitioned a majority of our customers." 

I cant find find where they say ... "full global roll out starting 2020"

I hope that ebay have people who monitor this discussion board and that they can post here, an intended start date for Australia.sothat I/we can properly plan the future for our businesses too.

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Under FAQs, fifth question down.

[affordablequalitybrandedproducts]

Thank you so much for the update.

It is most important to me that this change being rolled out by ebay is not unexpectedly dumped on me by way of a message at 8AM on a Monday morning, as then being a "fait accompli".

As a related consideration, I note that when I have significant sales through my ebay listing, the relevasnt listings are simultaneously being promoted by ebay in Google.

My post-sale communications with each of those customers indicate that many of those sale opportunities have originated from my Customer conducting a Google search rather than "en ebayer" simply shopping exclusively on ebay.

I have tried ebay's "promoted lsitings" offering but stopped doing that some months ago as the cost was killing me.

So, while I appreciate ebay paying for my listing/s to be promoted on Google, it is sad that we appear to have a declining ebay family dedicated to shopping in our stores.