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People use PayPal all of the time, for what ever reason it is a simple way to transfer money to other people. The application I am going to review for you today is GaragePay. It is designed to work with your PayPal account to show you, in a simple interface, your current balance, transactions and the ability to send money to other people. It takes the hassle out of using the website and puts it in a simple to use Mac interface that we are all used to.

Send Money, Receive Money

The application is very simple. At the core it will show your latest transactions on your PayPal account. Before you can begin using the application you do need a PayPal account and you need to find the API key. The API key can be found in your PayPal account, use the help function to find it. This program works best if you have a PayPal account with some activity so you can see how it works, if you have a fresh account you can use the default database to show you how it works.

Once you set your PayPal up with this app, the main activity is shown in the centre. This includes you most recent transactions, including the quantity, payee, plus the date. All of the columns can be ordered so you can easily see where and when you money was flowing. Each option is also click able to get a more detailed view. This gives a lot more information in the form of a sidebar. Such as payment name, status, plus all of the different bits of information such as messages and mailing address. Its a good method of to see what is exactly happening. I find this is a lot quicker than using the website.

The app does more than just enabling you to view your recent transactions. To can also send and refund money. This is the most useful if you do a lot of transactions and want a quick an easy way to make payments. You can also make and use smart folders, so you can easily organise your payments. This is actually very useful for keeping track of large or small payments over time. You can easily see when payments are going out.

The app also has security features, as you would expect, such as encryption and the ability to use more than one account. Overall its a very good application which is very useful for the type of user who uses PayPal a lot to send and receive money. It also works well with the other application the developers have, these integrate with ebay. The program is not very useful for the PayPal user who just uses PayPal occasionally. The price of the application may not be worth it.

Try the app out and see what you think. It might be the type of application you really need.