Today I have received this email: Improved Skrill payment gateway, increased conversions The first changes you will see is in the Skrill gateway, which will be rolled out and seamlessly replace the current version during February. The new Skrill gateway has been designed with state of the art Service Oriented Architecture, supported by user-friendly front-ends that improve performance and increase conversion at your checkout pages. We have also added functionality allowing your customers additional chances to pay in the event that their first payment fails. For example, insufficient funds on a selected credit card can be retried with a bank wire or another payment method of their choice. The roll out of the new gateway starts this month You do not have to do anything. It will look a little different (with the new Skrill logos) and perform much faster, so your customers have an even slicker checkout experience with Skrill. The new Skrill gateway has been thoroughly tested over the past few months, so both you and your customers will be pleased with the improved experience.
I'd like to see Skrill become a competitive alternative to PayPal, specially on US websites where Paypal still dominates as a payment processor. Skrill (Moneybookers), on the other hand, has gained steady ground among European and Asian users.
Skrill still doesn't offer invoicing like Paypal. They really need to step up their game and offer more competitive services similar to Paypal if they really want to take off in the U.S. and internationally. Only offering limited payment processing services (e.g. customer makes payment through merchant's website) simply doesn't cut it, imho.