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Click Create App in the upper right corner, enter the name of your REST API app", "confidence": "high" }, { "field": "sla_published", "url": "https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/paypal/xdeveloper-full", "excerpt": "PayPal does not guarantee any minimum uptime for the PayPal website, Developer's Tools, and/or PayPal Services.", "confidence": "high" }, { "field": "supported_actions", "url": "https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/orders/v2/", "excerpt": "Create Order, Authorize Payment, Capture Payment, Update Order, Confirm Payment Source, Add Tracking, Void authorization", "confidence": "high" }, { "field": "categories", "url": "https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/subscriptions/v1/", "excerpt": "create subscriptions that process recurring PayPal payments for physical or digital goods, or services", "confidence": "high" }, { "field": "auth_methods", "url": "https://developer.paypal.com/api/rest/", "excerpt": "Exchange your client ID and client secret for an access token", "confidence": "high" }, { "field": "base_url", "url": "https://developer.paypal.com/api/rest/requests/", "excerpt": "Live. `https://api-m.paypal.com`", "confidence": "high" }, { "field": "api_version", "url": "https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/orders/v2/", "excerpt": "Orders v2 — the current production-recommended Orders API uses /v2/ path prefix", "confidence": "high" }, { "field": "versioning_scheme", "url": "https://developer.paypal.com/api/rest/authentication/", "excerpt": "exchange your client ID and client secret for an access token by calling … /v1/oauth2/token", "confidence": "high" }, { "field": "deprecation_policy_url", "url": "https://developer.paypal.com/api/rest/deprecated-resources/", "excerpt": "The resources listed on this page are deprecated, with information provided to support customers with existing integrations only.", "confidence": "medium" }, { "field": "idempotency_supported", "url": "https://developer.paypal.com/api/rest/reference/idempotency/", "excerpt": "PayPal recommends that you use the UUID standard for the `PayPal-Request-Id` header value because it meets the 38 single-byte character limit.", "confidence": "high" }, { "field": "error_format", "url": "https://developer.paypal.com/api/rest/reference/orders/v2/errors/", "excerpt": "Top-level error fields: name, message, debug_id, details (array with field, value, location, issue, description), links", "confidence": "high" }, { "field": "webhook_signing", "url": "https://developer.paypal.com/api/rest/webhooks/rest/", "excerpt": "The postback verification example references: `\"auth_algo\": \"SHA256withRSA\"` — indicating SHA256 with RSA asymmetric signing", "confidence": "high" }, { "field": "rate_limit_requests", "url": "https://developer.paypal.com/api/rest/reference/rate-limiting/", "excerpt": "While we do not publish a rate limiting policy, we might temporarily rate limit if we identify traffic that appears to be abusive.", "confidence": "high" }, { "field": "sdk_packages", "url": "https://github.com/paypal/PayPal-Python-Server-SDK", "excerpt": "pip install paypal-server-sdk==2.3.0", "confidence": "high" }, { "field": "mcp_url", "url": "https://docs.paypal.ai/developer/tools/ai/mcp-quickstart", "excerpt": "Production SSE: `https://mcp.paypal.com/sse`; Streamable HTTP: `https://mcp.paypal.com/http`", "confidence": "high" }, { "field": "quickstart_url", "url": "https://developer.paypal.com/api/rest/", "excerpt": "Get Started with PayPal REST APIs — exchange your client ID and client secret for an access token", "confidence": "high" }, { "field": "price_basis", "url": "https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/merchant-fees", "excerpt": "Percentage fee: 2.89%; Fixed fee: 0.29 USD — Pricing model: '2.89% + fixed fee' applied per transaction", "confidence": "high" }, { "field": "requires_verification", "url": "https://developer.paypal.com/api/rest/", "excerpt": "You'll need a PayPal Business account to go live or test outside the US.", "confidence": "high" }, { "field": "notable_customers", "url": "https://www.paypal.com/us/brc/resources/case-studies?page=1&segment=enterprise", "excerpt": "Enterprise case studies featuring: Ticketmaster, Grubhub, Southwest Airlines, HelloFresh, Ace Hardware, Adorama, Nuts.com", "confidence": "high" } ], "fields_not_found": [ "hipaa", "specific SOC 2 scope/report date", "exact list of 200+ supported countries", "published uptime SLA percentage", "rate_limit_requests", "rate_limit_window", "sla_url", "ga_date" ], "source_confidence": "high", "last_verified_at": "2026-06-21T00:00:00.000Z", "contribute": { "note": "This data is crowd-editable. Suggest corrections or leave a review via these endpoints - no auth required, requests are rate-limited, and every submission is reviewed before it goes live. For a field edit, {field} is any key in this response and a citation is required.", "endpoints": [ { "action": "review", "label": "Leave a review or comment", "method": "POST", "url": "https://apio.sh/api/feedback/paypal-payments", "example_body": { "kind": "review", "rating": 5, "body": "Your experience with this API…" } }, { "action": "field_edit", "label": "Suggest a correction to a field (cite a source)", "method": "POST", "url": "https://apio.sh/api/suggest/paypal-payments/{field}", "example_body": { "value": "corrected value", "citations": [ { "url": "https://source.example/page", "excerpt": "supporting quote" } ], "note": "what changed and why" } }, { "action": "new_api", "label": "Suggest a new API to add (only name is required - send as much as you can cite)", "method": "POST", "url": "https://apio.sh/api/suggest/api", "example_body": { "value": { "name": "Acme Email API", "website_url": "https://acme.example", "vendor_name": "Acme", "categories": [ "email" ], "pricing_model": "usage_based", "has_published_pricing": true, "free_tier_available": true, "price_points": [ { "plan": "Pay as you go", "item": "1,000 emails", "amount_usd": 1, "per": "1,000 emails", "source_url": "https://acme.example/pricing" } ], "soc2": "type_2", "docs_url": "https://docs.acme.example" }, "citations": [ { "url": "https://acme.example/pricing", "excerpt": "$1 per 1,000 emails" } ] }, "value_schema": [ { "field": "name", "type": "string", "label": "Product name (the only required field)" }, { "field": "website_url", "type": "string", "label": "Marketing website URL" }, { "field": "vendor_name", "type": "string", "label": "Company/vendor name behind the product" }, { "field": "vendor_description", "type": "string", "label": "One-line description, quoted from the vendor" }, { "field": "categories", "type": "string[]", "label": "Category/leaf slugs it belongs to, e.g. [\"email\",\"sms\"]" }, { "field": "primary_use_cases", "type": "string[]", "label": "What it's used for" }, { "field": "supported_actions", "type": "string[]", "label": "Concrete API actions/capabilities" }, { "field": "supported_regions", "type": "string[]", "label": "Countries/regions/data-residency" }, { "field": "supported_languages", "type": "string[]", "label": "Human/spoken languages supported" }, { "field": "input_types", "type": "string[]", "label": "Accepted input types/formats" }, { "field": "output_types", "type": "string[]", "label": "Produced output types/formats" }, { "field": "webhooks_supported", "type": "bool", "label": "Supports webhooks?" }, { "field": "sandbox_available", "type": "bool", "label": "Dedicated sandbox/test mode?" }, { "field": "sdk_languages", "type": "string[]", "label": "Languages with an official SDK" }, { "field": "mcp_server_available", "type": "bool", "label": "Official MCP server?" }, { "field": "pricing_model", "type": "enum", "label": "Pricing model", "values": [ "usage_based", "subscription", "seat_based", "hybrid", "contact_sales" ] }, { "field": "has_published_pricing", "type": "bool", "label": "Concrete prices published publicly?" }, { "field": "free_tier_available", "type": "bool", "label": "Recurring/perpetual free tier (not a trial)?" }, { "field": "free_tier_details", "type": "string", "label": "What the free tier includes" }, { "field": "minimum_commitment", "type": "string", "label": "Any stated minimum spend/commitment" }, { "field": "self_serve_signup", "type": "bool", "label": "Get an API key without talking to sales?" }, { "field": "requires_sales_call", "type": "bool", "label": "Does going live require sales?" }, { "field": "enterprise_plan_available", "type": "bool", "label": "Named enterprise tier?" }, { "field": "starting_price_usd", "type": "number", "label": "Lowest published paid entry price (USD number)" }, { "field": "price_basis", "type": "string", "label": "Unit the starting price is per, e.g. '1,000 emails'" }, { "field": "free_tier_limit", "type": "string", "label": "Free-tier ceiling in literal terms" 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"hmac_signature", "mtls", "session" ] }, { "field": "api_style", "type": "enum", "label": "Primary API style", "values": [ "rest", "graphql", "grpc", "soap", "websocket" ] }, { "field": "base_url", "type": "string", "label": "API root/base URL" }, { "field": "api_version", "type": "string", "label": "Current API version string" }, { "field": "quickstart_url", "type": "string", "label": "Quickstart / hello-world URL" }, { "field": "docs_url", "type": "string", "label": "Developer docs URL" }, { "field": "api_reference_url", "type": "string", "label": "API reference URL" }, { "field": "openapi_spec_url", "type": "string", "label": "OpenAPI spec URL" }, { "field": "changelog_url", "type": "string", "label": "Changelog URL" }, { "field": "status_page_url", "type": "string", "label": "Status page URL" }, { "field": "notable_customers", "type": "string[]", "label": "Named public customers" }, { "field": "launched_at", "type": "string", "label": "Launch date (ISO date or year)" } ] }, { "action": "token", "label": "Optional - raise your rate limit", "method": "GET", "url": "https://apio.sh/api/feedback/token" } ] } }