PayPal API Profile

PayPal offers online payment solutions and have more than 153 million customers worldwide. The PayPal API makes powerful functionality available to developers by exposing various features of the PayPal platform.

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PayPal: Highlights

Summary: Online payments

Category: Payment

Tags: payment shopping finance sbweb

Protocols: SOAP, REST

Data Formats: XML

API home: https://developer.paypal.com/

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PayPal: Specifications

Functionality

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Example API Methods

Client Install Required

Signup and Licensing

Signup Requirements: API Key

Developer Key Required: Yes

Account Required

Commercial Licensing: Yes

Provider: paypal.com

Company: eBay

Non-Commercial Lic.

Data Licensing

Usage Fees

Usage Limits

Terms of Service

Security

Authentication Model

SSL Support

Read-only Without Login

Support

Vendor API Kits

Community API Kits

API Blog: developer.paypal-portal.com/t5/blogs/blogpage/blog...

Site Blog

API Forum: PayPal API Forums

Developer Support

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Comments

February 14, 2010 at 15:15: Comment by: ento
To get started quickly, I recommend you to just jump into the test site and create a button or two. Their documentation at www.x.com needs reorganizing to better meet the needs of a complete newbie to all of the paypal services.
https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/

August 31, 2008 at 03:47: Comment by: invadereki
You could receive payments to your site using the Paypal Merchant Account: https://www.paypal.com/j1/mrb/pal=79FL3VQ7FJTDW