PayPal

API

Payments API for PayPal, Venmo, cards, invoicing and payouts

Price: Fee per transaction
Access: Client ID and secret

About

Payments platform whose REST APIs take PayPal, Venmo, Pay Later and card payments, run subscriptions, send invoices and pay out to many recipients at once. Buyers and sellers can use it in most countries; fees depend on the payment type and country.

What you can do with it

Accept PayPal, Venmo, Pay Later and card payments with the Orders API
Send invoices and charge customers on a schedule with the Subscriptions API
Send money to many recipients in one batch with the Payouts API

Get started

Log in to the Developer Dashboard and open Apps & Credentials
Copy the sandbox client ID and secret
Exchange them for an access token

Example

curl -X POST https://api-m.sandbox.paypal.com/v1/oauth2/token \
  -u "$PAYPAL_CLIENT_ID:$PAYPAL_CLIENT_SECRET" \
  -d "grant_type=client_credentials"

curl -X POST https://api-m.sandbox.paypal.com/v2/checkout/orders \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PAYPAL_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"intent": "CAPTURE", "purchase_units": [{"amount": {"currency_code": "USD", "value": "100.00"}}]}'

Details

Hosting: Hosted service
Available in: Worldwide
Official SDKs: C#, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, Kotlin
MCP server: Remote