A PayPal application that lets people deposit checks by scanning them with cameras built into iPhones was considered a budding success.

More than $100,000 worth of cheques were handled by a Mobile Check Capture feature in the 36 hours after it was added to a PayPal application for Apple’s popular smartphones. “There must have been a lot of people with checks waiting for the new PayPal mobile check capture to come out,” PayPal Mobile senior director Laura Chambers quipped in a blog post.

“We knew that this would be popular but we had no idea just how much pent up demand there was for a quick, easy way to deal with checks.” The service, powered by BankServ, enables people to deposit money into PayPal accounts by using iPhone cameras to take pictures of cheques made out to them.

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