7-Eleven Stores to Sell PayPal Prepaid Cards

The PayPal Prepaid MasterCard card will be available at roughly 5,500 7-Eleven 7-Eleven stores nationwide once its rollout is completed this year.

Customers will be able to reload cash onto their cards at these locations, prepaid card marketer NetSpend Holdings says.

Here's the tie to mobile payments and banking. As with the M-Pesa service, retail agents are often the places users load cash and receive cash, even if the mobile device supplies the messaging function. Also, the way cash will be loaded onto many mobile payment accounts is by linking to an offline prepaid account of some kind, as with the Starbucks mobile app.