PayPal is a digital wallet that enables buyers to pay using their PayPal balance, bank accounts, or cards. It provides a trusted payment experience with buyer protection and is widely recognized by consumers worldwide.
To allow customers to tokenize their PayPal account for future payments, you need to contact PayPal and request that your account be enabled for Vault.Once Vault has been enabled on your PayPal merchant account, you can toggle the tokenization feature on within the PayPal connector settings in the dashboard.
By default, billing, and shipping details received from PayPal are not imported. To enable this feature, head over to Connections → Configured and select your PayPal connector. Next, go to Credentials and toggle Import billing details and/or Import shipping details.When Import billing details is enabled, any of the user’s name, email address, and billing address are automatically imported into your transaction, merging it with any data already present on the transaction. Linked buyers are not updated, but only the snapshot of the buyer on the transaction.When Import shipping details is enabled, the user’s shipping address is automatically requested and imported into your transaction, merging it with any data already present on the transaction. Linked buyers are not updated, but only the snapshot of the buyer on the transaction.
The ingestion of billing and shipping details is not available for tokenized payments.
By default, PayPal only settles payments automatically if the payment is in the primary currency of the PayPal merchant account. If you need to accept payments in additional currencies, you need to open a PayPal account balance in each of the currencies you intend to accept. Alternatively, you can configure your PayPal merchant account to automatically convert payments into the primary currency.If you receive a payment in a currency that your PayPal merchant account is not configured to accept, the payment enters a pending state and you need to log in to the PayPal merchant dashboard to trigger settlement, either by opening the required currency balance, or converting the payment into the primary currency of your PayPal account.
Payments left in a pending state are eventually reversed by PayPal.
FraudNet is a PayPal-developed JavaScript library that collects browser-based data to help reduce fraud. Upon checkout, the FraudNet library sends data elements to PayPal Risk Services for fraud and risk assessment.When creating transactions, the PayPal FraudNet library must be included on the checkout page for all transactions. When using Embed, the PayPal FraudNet library is included automatically. If you are using the API directly, you need to use the device fingerprinting library which includes the PayPal FraudNet library.
For PayPal, the default integration is through a redirect to PayPal’s hosted checkout page.Start by creating a new transaction with the following required fields.
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var transaction = await client.Transactions.CreateAsync( transactionCreate: new TransactionCreate() { Amount = 1299, Currency = "USD", Country = "US", PaymentMethod = TransactionCreatePaymentMethod.CreateCheckoutSessionWithUrlPaymentMethodCreate( new RedirectPaymentMethodCreate() { Method = "paypal", RedirectUrl = "https://example.com/callback", } ), });
After the transaction is created, the API response includes payment_method.approval_url and the buyer_approval_pending status.
Redirect the buyer to the approval_url so they can log in to PayPal, review the transaction, and approve the payment. After approval, the buyer is redirected to the redirect_url you provided when creating the transaction. Do not rely solely on the redirect - either poll the transaction or (recommended) rely on webhooks to detect the final status (for example capture_succeeded or failure states).
PayPal provides a sandbox environment for testing transactions. After setting up your sandbox PayPal developer account, you can create test buyer accounts in the PayPal Developer Dashboard.Use these test buyer accounts to log in during the redirect flow and approve test transactions. The sandbox environment simulates the production flow without processing real payments.For detailed testing instructions and test account setup, see the PayPal Developer documentation.
