Meet the MCP Server Quickstart Guide: Your Fast Track to Building AI with PayPal

The world of payments is evolving fast, and developers are right at the heart of it. Whether you're building a new app, integrating intelligent checkout features, or exploring how AI can enhance financial interactions, having the right tools and clear documentation is essential.

To help developers build AI-powered commerce applications fast and with greater clarity, PayPal introduces the MCP server quickstart guide. Whether you're just exploring how to bring AI into your app or you're ready to scale intelligent features into production, this guide offers a structured path to get started with PayPal’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. This quickstart guide offers a clear, practical introduction to PayPal’s MCP server. 

The guide supports both local and remote MCP server configurations. The local MCP server option lets developers set up and test model compositions on their own machine to enable rapid prototyping, iteration, and debugging—all without needing to deploy to a remote environment. When the logic is sound, they can promote their work to the remote MCP server, which runs on PayPal’s production-grade infrastructure and supports high-scale, secure deployments for customer-facing applications. The complete catalog of PayPal's AI tools is available for both local and remote MCP servers.

PayPal’s MCP server offers a variety of helpful tools for performing many jobs. For example, a developer can use the create_order tool to initiate a new payment order—for instance, a $100 subscription purchase—and then follow up with the pay_order tool to capture the payment through PayPal. This enables seamless integration of payment processing directly into your AI-powered application workflows. Whether you're running locally or remotely, these tools offer consistent behavior, making it easy to test and deploy real commerce transactions with confidence.

Ready to Build?

If you're exploring how to bring AI-driven, conversational commerce to life, now is the time to dive in. Check out the MCP server quick start guide and start building agents with PayPal. For more information, visit PayPal.ai.