Www.fsa.gov.uk/static/pubs/cp/cp12-12.pdf. Media.fsahandbook.info/Legislation/2011/2011_7.pdf. Www.fsa.gov.uk/pubs/international/approach_emoney.pdf. Introducing Adaptive Payments. The Adaptive Payments API enables you to send money in many different scenarios, from simple to complex. For example, you might build a small send money application for a social networking site or a robust payroll system. Adaptive Payments Actors and Objects Adaptive payments handles payments between a sender of a payment and one or more receivers of the payment. You are an application owner, such as a merchant that owns a website, the owner of a widget on a social networking site, the provider of a payment application on mobile phones, and so on. Your application is the caller of Adaptive Payments API operations. Note: The application owner must have a PayPal Business account.
Senders and receivers can have any PayPal account type. With many applications, you may be both the application owner and a receiver. You are not required to be a receiver. This diagram shows a payment in which the sender pays multiple receivers in a parallel payment. Simple, Parallel, and Chained Payments. Getting Started With The PayPal API. Advertisement PayPal is the most popular platform for receiving online payments today. The ease of opening a PayPal account and receiving payments compared to opening a merchant account with a traditional payment gateway is probably the number one reason for its popularity, with a close second being the comprehensive API that PayPal provides for its payment services.
In this post, I will break down some of the techniques and approaches to working with the PayPal API, in order to make integration and troubleshooting simpler and easier. Disclaimer: PayPal’s API is among the worst I’ve ever had to deal with. Inconsistencies, sometimes poor or conflicting documentation, unpredictable failures and account changes, and major differences between the live and sandbox versions all conspire to make the PayPal API quite a pain in the arse to work with. The Different Payment Options PayPal offers a variety of payment options, which might be confusing at first: Making API Requests Express Checkout 1. 2.