We at mobikwik.com had briefly stopped the usage of paypal as a payment option on mobikwik.com for online recharge of Indian mobile operators. This was done to beef up some of the changes that happened as a result of paypal changing its policies in India. Also, paypal does not treat Indian merchants too kindly in terms of digital goods, so we had to reinforce in terms of security measures.
As of now, paypal mobile recharge is working at mobikwik.com with option to pay upto Rs 300. However, if you have never paid via Paypal on mobikwik.com, we will hold your first paypal transaction until we can verify your details. While we did not want to do this in terms of user experience, some of the trolls lingering around on wap forums were hell bent on mis-informing users how to get free recharge using paypal on mobikwik.com. Hence, we are forced to flag first time paypal transactions. Once cleared, however, the mobile recharge via paypal will happen instanteneously.
The exchange rate and paypal fees remain the same, so no change there. A Rs 100 recharge will cost 3.20 USD and so on.
Please do send any questions you have in the comments here.