Skrill and PayPal are two electronic payment systems and accumulation platforms. They are two virtual wallets. With PayPal you can receive sums of money in real time from other PayPal accounts or if you pay in cash at one of the many top-up points through a connected top-up card (for example a Postepay). If, on the other hand, I want to top up PayPal from my bank account, I can do it, but in that case it works with the times of a bank transfer, so we'll have a few days of difference to have the money available.
To have immediate cash top-up on the PayPal account we must have a PayPal card which is a Mastercard debit card and which is issued upon request by PayPal. This card is convenient in case you expect to have a lot of cash top-ups, but to withdraw you charge two euros for each withdrawal. Not a little compared to other withdrawal systems such as ATMs or Postepay. The withdrawal fee, on the other hand, is quite in line with other credit cards.
The Skrill system, on the other hand, is always a virtual wallet, it works in a very similar way to Paypal as regards top-ups and spending methods, but it also works with cryptocurrencies and is specialized in online games, so much so that it even has a dedicated section on the homepage and offers very low commission rates on online gambling sites. With Skrill we can pay money through dedicated cards, in cash through the physical top-up points indicated on the site, through the purchase and subsequent deposit of cryptocurrencies.
Skrill casinos are now 90% of the casinos, among the advantages of the Skrill account we certainly have low withdrawal and transfer commissions, on the contrary with Paypal for each movement that is not made by PayPal accounts we must consider having a commission percentage very high (about 6-7% of the deposit or the amount we move).
For real online casinos – depending on the casino – these commissions are sometimes absorbed by the casino, so we players don't pay them, but the commission falls on the casino. However, for transactions and top-ups the commission is applied and with Paypal if we win we have the money won available only 2-3 days after winning.
With Skrill, which was born dedicated to gamers, we have secure and very fast, almost instantaneous payments, many special offers from Skrill Casinos with promotions and bonuses, we can always use it thanks to the app with the digital recognition system and thanks to the Vip Skrill program we have lowest commissions for players and super bonuses, 24/7 support.
Probably whoever created Skrill, which was born long after PayPal, essentially created it to play and to allow players to have advantages – PayPal seems to us more oriented towards online purchases and shopping (even if, for example, a platform like Amazon does not accept these payment systems except with cards issued by Mastercard or Visa which are connected to their circuit).
If we had to choose to play today, we would certainly open a Skrill account, especially if we want to keep house expenses separate from the account we play with and for these expenses we usually use PayPal.