Using PayPal with Upmind

PayPal offers a variety of payment solutions for businesses, from simple payments to subscription-based models.

Upmind supports a variety of PayPal implementations. By default, we recommend using PayPal Billing Agreements which will work whether or not you have reference transactions enabled.

We’ll walk you through the different types of PayPal services available for businesses.

Types of PayPal Services

Here are the main types of PayPal services you can use as a payment method:

PayPal Billing Agreement
PayPal Express
PayPal Pro
PayPal Pro (REST)

We also support a PayPal subscription function which lets you map existing subscriptionids to record incoming payments (but does not support adding new PayPal subscriptions).

Each of these services comes with different functions, APIs, and credentials for integration.

PayPal Type	API Type	API Credentials	Function
PayPal Billing Agreements	NVP/SOAP	Requires API username, password, and signature	Allows you to automatically charge a client’s PayPal account for payments (just like charging a card on file)
PayPal Express	NVP/SOAP	Requires API username, password, and signature	Fast checkout with PayPal, redirects users to PayPal for payment
PayPal Pro	NVP/SOAP	Requires API username, password, and signature	Full payment gateway solution supports credit card processing
PayPal Pro (REST)	REST API	Requires API client ID and secret	Advanced integration for PayPal Pro services via RESTful API
PayPal Subscription Agreement	REST API	Requires API client ID and secret	Manages recurring payments with subscription agreements
PayPal Legacy Subscriptions (Callbacks)	NVP/SOAP	Requires API username, password, and signature	Manages subscription payments with callbacks