2Checkout Expands International Reach Adding Five New Currencies

Oct. 12, 2009 - PRLog -- Columbus, Ohio:  2Checkout.com, a full-service e-commerce solution and worldwide leader in third party online payments, added five new purchase currencies and one remittance currency to its lists of payment options for international customers.

As of today, the Argentina Peso (ARS), Brazilian Real (BRL), Indian Rupee (INR), Mexican Peso (MXN), and the South African Rand (ZAR), are available for online shoppers to choose from and for existing 2Checkout vendors to set as default currencies in 2CO’s hosted purchase routine.

These recent additions boost 2Checkout’s available international purchase currencies to 17.  In addition, 2CO added the Rand (ZAR) to its remittance currency list, making it possible for the company’s South African-based merchants to be paid in ZAR by wire transfer, raising 2CO’s overall payout currencies to 25.

According to Vic Cleary, 2Checkout’s E-Commerce Strategy Manager, “Requests for access to additional currencies continue to come in from international vendors, indicative of the robust growth of online, internationally-based businesses.  The addition of these five currencies and one additional remittance currency is just one step in our continued efforts to help international businesses simplify the online buying process for their customers.”

Established in 2000, and headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, 2Checkout.com (2CO) is a full service e-commerce solution servicing tens of thousands of web-based businesses throughout the world.  2CO provides online businesses a merchant account alternative and a fully automated suite of backend services.  In addition to a fast and secure checkout system accepting a wide variety of payment methods, 2CO offers built-in, world-class fraud protection, 24-hour customer care, full PCI compliance, and easy to use plug-n-play code.  For more information visit http://www.2checkout.com/campaigns/ga1.html .

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2Checkout.com is an authorized online reseller providing a merchant account alternative for online retailers. 2CO provides services for 30,000 vendors offering over 1 million tangible and digital products and generated over $220 million in sales in 2008.