PayPal Complete Payments Platform for Marketplaces and Platforms
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PayPal Complete Payments Platform offers multiparty payment processing solutions for marketplaces and platforms. With these solutions, you can onboard global sellers by applying local regulations and compliance rules.
Key features include:
- Accepting multiple payment methods
- Customizing pricing with partner fees
- Handling foreign exchange for global currencies
- Making payouts
- Managing disputes and chargebacks
Test the integration in the PayPal sandbox with a standard developer account. Apply for live credentials and go live after your platform or marketplace has been approved.
PayPal Solutions Overview
Packaged solutions
PayPal's multiparty packaged solutions include features that support your business needs. These packaged solutions include standard or advanced checkout and provide instructions for integrating with PayPal Complete Payments Platform.
Fill out this form to get started, and we will recommend a solution for your business model.
Our packaged solutions work for platforms such as:
- Marketplaces
- Ecommerce and shopping carts
- Sharing and gig economy
- Technology partners
- Payment service providers
- Crowdfunding
Standard checkout
Integrate standard payment on your checkout page so your buyers can pay with:
- PayPal branded checkout
- Pay Later
- Venmo (US only)
- Alternative payment methods
- Credit or debit cards
Standard Checkout
Advanced checkout
Advanced checkout includes all offerings from standard checkout and card field customization with your business branding. Integrate advanced payment on your checkout page so your buyers can pay with:
- PayPal branded checkout
- Pay Later
- Venmo (US only)
- Alternative payment methods
- Credit and debit cards with custom branding
Advanced Checkout
Partner fees
Partner fees enable partners to charge commissions or brokerage fees for each transaction they facilitate on behalf of a seller. The seller will see the platform fee in their transaction details as
- The currency of the platform fee must be the same as the transaction currency.
- To receive the money, the platform fee payee must add a bank account to their PayPal account.
- Partner fees are settled into the bank account attached to the PayPal account. This settlement is done once daily, so transactions with partner fees completed today will be consolidated into one payment and settled tomorrow.
- If a partner chooses to receive partner fees from their integration, their partner/live API-caller account cannot have a PayPal balance.
- Partner fees will be paid out to the bank account associated with the partner account. If the partner wants to transact with this account as a seller or collect payments directly from buyers, it will cause issues. In that case, the partner must make another account.
- Platform fee is not supported for first-party integrations.
Use the following endpoints to set the fees and refund amounts:
- Set fee using
/v2/checkout/ordersinPURCHASE_UNITS.PAYMENT_INSTRUCTION.PLATFORM_FEES.AMOUNT.IfPURCHASE_UNITS.PAYMENT_INSTRUCTION.PLATFORM_FEES.PAYEEis not set, the fee amount will go to the live API caller account. - Set the refund amount during refund transactions using
/v2/payments/captures/capture_id/refundinPAYMENT_INSTRUCTION.PLATFORM_FEES.AMOUNT. Partner must be enabled by PayPal to use this feature.
Compare our packaged solutions
Features included in standard checkout and advanced checkout.
| Standard checkout | Advanced checkout | |
|---|---|---|
| Client and server side integrations |  | |
| Accept PayPal, Venmo and Pay Later offers | | |
| Accept alternative payment methods | | |
| One-time sales transactions | | |
| Auth and capture transactions | | |
| Void and refunds | | |
| Advanced credit and debit card payments | | |
| Custom user experience | | |
| Customizable fraud protection tools | |
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