PayPal will charge inactive accounts in Canada a $20 annual fee

Photo by Brett Jordan from PexelsIf you have a PayPal account, make sure to use it sometimes. The payment platform quietly added a $20 account inactivity fee in the country. The change was spotted in PayPal's Canadian User Agreement, which was updated on August 11. The note simply stated, "We are introducing an annual account inactivity of $20 CAD," effective November 20, 2021. Beyond this update, PayPal hasn't mentioned this upcoming change elsewhere. It hasn't said what it considers an inactive account, either.

If it follows the policy it implemented on UK accounts back in December, the criteria is you need to use your PayPal at least once within 12 months to avoid the charge. You can also take out any PayPal wallet balances you have because the payment platform won't charge credit or debit cards linked to your account. In the UK, the accounts approaching the one-year inactivity mark are warned via email. It isn't known if that will be the case for Canadian account holders, too. 

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PayPal will soon support single sign-in across all Google services

As it stands, you need to input your PayPal credentials separately every time you make a payment on any Google service. But that’s about to change. In a blog post, PayPal says it’s working on “deepening” its relationship with Google and one of the ways they plan to do that is allow for a single sign-in into all Google services. This means, if you input your PayPal details into YouTube, for example, these can be accessed on all the other services without needing to login again. There is no specific timeline yet for when this feature will come. But PayPal says “soon.” One other thing this method would allow is to let users choose PayPal as an option for peer-to-peer payments using Google Pay Send.

PayPal is now a payment option for Nintendo eShop accounts

If you own a Nintendo Switch and use the Nintendo eShop, there’s now one more payment method you can use. PayPal just announced that the option will be available in select countries (including Canada) for funding Nintendo eShop accounts and buying games and other content on the Nintendo Switch. Aside from that, it can also be used on Nintendo’s official website to add funds for buying software for Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, and Nintendo Switch.

The other countries the PayPal payment option will be available for include: Japan, USA, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, France, UK, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Slovenia, and Slovakia.

You can now use PayPal with Apple services

PayPal just announced that its payment service is now coming to Apple’s major services. You can now use it for the App Store, Apple Music, iTunes, and iBooks on both iOS and Mac devices. It’s available in Canada, the US, the UK, Mexico, Australia, Austria, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain. Setting it up is similar to how you would a credit card. PayPal now shows up as a payment option. So when you select that, any purchases you made on that Apple ID will be charged to your PayPal account.