Dubai, 21 March 2021 — Today, Telr, the award-winning online payment gateway, and PayPal announced a collaboration that will enable Telr’s UAE merchants to accept PayPal payments online. This partnership opens up significant global opportunities for Telr's UAE merchants, allowing them to sell in over 200 markets worldwide. By integrating PayPal, Telr enhances its payment options and enables merchants to reach 348 million PayPal users globally, boosting their international market presence.

Furthermore, this comes to support the continuous efforts taken towards the transition to digital payments in-lined with UAE’s Vision to achieve a cashless society by 2021.

Commenting on the new collaboration, Telr’s CEO Khalil Alami, said: “merchants should look beyond their own borders for sales opportunities, Telr is one of the few payment gateways who enabled a grand collection of payment methods”.

Alami went on to add: “we strive to provide our merchants with the latest technologies and the best payment methods available in the market, which aim at enhancing their competitive position among other merchants and ease the online shopping process for their customers.”

“At PayPal our focus has always been to help businesses leverage global opportunity and in light of the digital adoption which the pandemic has brought us, cross-border selling has become ever more relevant. This collaboration should enable new opportunies for the SME, MSME & Large Corporates to go global and tap into our 348 million consumer base across 200 markets, and we are delighted to join hands with Telr to help local businesses grow and thrive.” Said, Matt Komorowski, Senior Director Channel Partnership.

About Telr

Established in 2014, Telr, the UAE-based award-winning payment gateway solutions provider, offers a unique platform that enables handling payments in over 120 currencies and 30 languages with the highest level of security. Through a single integration, Telr grants access to every payment method it offers, including Visa, Mastercard, American Express, mada UnionPay, JCB, Apple Pay, PayPal, SADAD, stc pay, urpay.

With its one-stop mindset, Telr extended its services even further, offering a complete solution for the e-commerce world, covering a wide range of financial and business services, including social commerce, QR Codes, digital invoicing, Telr Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL), Telr Finance a merchant financing program, and Telr Shops the easy-to-use tool for creating an online store in minutes.

TELR is the first PCI DSS Level 1 & NESA-certified company in MENA.

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