Hi @upgradebot,
we tryed 2 times, one during the spring of 2019 and another during the summer o 2019 but we had the same identical experience with the application (from the official application page) to the commerce platform. Our business has almost 700.000 euros in volume now and it grows by a 40% y/y buy probably it is not enough to be interesting for paypal. Talking with a paypal executive in Italy, he said me that they consider businesses for a partner application when they have at least a cash flow volume over 20 millions, so we're surely too small to be considered.
However, an answer is always important, even to smaller business because they could be the biggest of tomorrow. As you said, it seems that paypal prefers to stay in a more comfortably and effortless zone, with few big partners to manage instead to bother itself with a lot of medium sized businesses.
We're looking around as you're doing but it is more a techinical need on our side, because till now, we even have ANY guidance from paypal about the future of adaptive payments APIs on which our platform completely rely and this is getting every day more urgent because of the PSD2 changes and the impact that those directive, in Europe, will have in the short term. Infact, the "grace period" is going to end in the next months and some decisione will be needed. The same person that talked to me about the 20 million target to be taken on board for the partner system, also told me that they're working on a new solution to replace adaptive but till now we - the involved businesses and application owners - have received no guidance at all.
Sorry to say because we work great with paypal from 7 years but this is another signal on the care quality that medium sized or small businesses deserves from this great company.
Cheers, Fil
