Sentence examples for instant payments from inspiring English sources
By knitting together a network of agents selling airtime into something akin to a banking grid, the scheme opened up cheap and instant payments to the masses.
Money in such an account can be used for instant payments to other PayPal accounts.Merchants who sell through PayPal pay two percentage points less than for credit-card transactions on the Internet.
In contrast to Snapcash and Venmo, Facebook's service does not make instant payments: the money only arrives after a few hours or even days, depending on how quickly users' banks act.
This means it is (theoretically, at least) anonymous, and that, unlike credit cards and PayPal, which block payments from a number of countries, it enables instant payments to anyone, from anywhere in the world.
Then Dwolla, arguably Square's biggest rival, announced Dwolla Credit, which means online retailers can receive instant payments from Dwolla users at a fraction of the price they were being charged by credit card companies.
That's still a rounding error compared with the $411 trillion in total global payments, but bitcoin is growing fast and increasingly important in contexts such as instant payments and foreign currency and asset trading, where the present financial system has limitations.
I have twice had callers threaten "to end it all" if I can't arrange instant payment.
Meanwhile, suppliers demand instant payment from companies with weak balance-sheets and equity investors downgrade the shares.Were there no voices for caution?
An instant payment feature, for example, might be attractive to users and carriers but less so to app providers or retailers because of required changes to an existing payment infrastructure.
This is what Amazon appears to have done with its test store in Seattle, integrating consumer product reviews on its shelf displays, stocking books that sell well online (including self-published titles), allowing for instant payment with Amazon technology, and offering unified online and in-store pricing.
Uber will also offer an Instant Payment feature through GoBank.
