PayPal Releases Agent Toolkit to Accelerate Commerce

Building on the release of PayPal’s MCP servers, PayPal is excited to introduce the PayPal Agent Toolkit*. This toolkit empowers developers to seamlessly integrate PayPal’s comprehensive suite of APIs—including those for managing payments, invoices, disputes, shipment tracking, catalog, subscriptions, reporting and insights —into various AI frameworks. With PayPal Agent Toolkit, developers can now build sophisticated agentic workflows that handle financial operations with intelligence and efficiency.

Overview of PayPal Agent Toolkit

The PayPal Agent Toolkit is a library designed to simplify the integration of PayPal's core commerce functionalities into AI agent workflows. By providing a structured and intuitive interface, the toolkit bridges the gap between PayPal’s powerful APIs and modern AI agent frameworks, allowing agents to perform tasks such as creating and managing orders, generating and sending invoices, and handling subscription lifecycles. It eliminates the need for developers to manually integrate with API calls and data formatting by offering pre-built tools and abstractions to streamline these interactions.

Key Features of the Toolkit

• Easy integration with PayPal services, including functions that correspond to common actions within the payments, invoices, disputes, shipment tracking, catalog, subscriptions, reporting and insights APIs, eliminating the need to delve deep into each API endpoint.
• Compatibility with popular frameworks and languages, including compatibility with leading AI agent frameworks, such as Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and Vercel's AI SDK, ensuring broad applicability. The toolkit currently supports the Typescript programming language with Python support coming soon.
• Extensibility, allowing developers to build upon core PayPal functionalities, and enable use with 3rd party toolkits that allows for complex, multi-step operations tailored to their specific agentic use cases.

Merchant Use Cases

The integration of PayPal APIs with AI frameworks through the Agent Toolkit enables developers to empower businesses with their own agents, facilitating seamless connections to PayPal services for process workflows and task generation for use cases. These include:

• Order Management and Shipment tracking: AI agents can be designed to create orders based on user requests, handle payments and track their shipment status. Developers could design a customer service agent to leverage the PayPal toolkit to process an order and complete a payment via PayPal with buyer authentication. For example, an agent could create an order in PayPal when a user clearly confirms their purchase through a conversational interface, and the user authenticates the payment by logging in to their PayPal account.
• Intelligent Invoice Handling: Agents can generate invoices based on predefined templates or dynamically created parameters, send them to customers, track their payment status, and send reminders for overdue payments. Imagine an AI assistant that generates invoices upon completion of a service, using natural language instructions to define the invoice details. For example, an AI assistant could generate a PayPal invoice based on the details of a service provided and email it to the client.
• Streamlined Subscription Management: AI agents can manage the entire subscription lifecycle, from creating new products, subscription plans and processing recurring payments via PayPal supported payment. A membership management agent could use the toolkit to enroll new members (with their consent) in a PayPal subscription plan. For example, a membership agent could use the toolkit to set up a recurring PayPal payment when a new user signs up for a service and approves the payment.

Get Started

Go to our public GitHub repo to try out all the use cases offered by PayPal toolkit, refer to the details for installation and usage here.

*Disclaimer: PayPal Agent Toolkit provides access to AI-generated content that may be inaccurate or incomplete. Users are responsible for independently verifying any information before relying on it. PayPal makes no guarantees regarding output accuracy and is not liable for any decisions, actions, or consequences resulting from its use.