Last updated on December 11, 2025
Last updated on December 11, 2025
(Previously the separate PayPal Website Payments Pro and Virtual Terminal agreement and the Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments and Virtual Terminal agreement)
This PayPal Online Card Payments Services Agreement (“Agreement”) is a contract between you (“Merchant”, “you” and “your”) and PayPal Canada Co. (“PayPal”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) and governs your use of the Online Card Payment Services. You must read, agree with, and accept all of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement and the PayPal User Agreement to use any of the Products or Services set forth herein. By continuing to use any such Products or Services, you also agree to remain in compliance with all of the terms and conditions in this Agreement and the PayPal User Agreement, so please read all of the terms and conditions carefully.
This Agreement, the PayPal User Agreement, and any other applicable agreement(s) you have entered into with PayPal (collectively “PayPal Agreements”) shall apply to your use of the Services through the Products. If any inconsistency exists between the terms of the PayPal User Agreement and this Agreement, then, except for Express Checkout, the terms of this Agreement shall control in connection with your use of the Services through any Product. The terms of the PayPal User Agreement shall control for any inconsistency for Express Checkout.
We may amend or otherwise revise this Agreement and any applicable policies from time to time. The revised version will be effective at the time we post it unless otherwise noted. If our changes reduce your rights or increase your responsibilities, we will provide you with at least thirty (30) days' prior notice of such change (and a notice period of at least 30 and no more than 60 calendar days’ prior notice of any fee increase or the introduction of a new fee related to credit or debit card transactions which applies to you), by posting notice on the Policy Updates page of our website. If you would like to receive notification by email of new Policy Updates, then you may do so by logging into your PayPal account and selecting this option by going to My Account > Profile > Account Information > Notifications. By continuing to use our Services after any changes to this Agreement, you agree to abide and be bound by those changes. If you do not agree with any changes to this Agreement, you may, as applicable, terminate your use of the Services before such changes become effective and/or close your account.
You understand and agree that you are providing PayPal with your consent and authorizing PayPal to obtain your personal and/or business credit report from a credit reporting agency for the purpose of processing your application for PayPal Services. You further understand and agree that you are authorizing PayPal to obtain your credit report on an ongoing basis for account review purposes, including whenever we reasonably believe there may be an increased level of risk associated with your business account. You have the right to review your credit report file and correct errors by contacting the consumer reporting agency.
For certain Products (“Eligible Products”), you may choose to be charged under the Interchange Plus Plus Fee Structure (“Interchange Plus Plus” or “IC++”). If you elect to activate Interchange Plus Plus pricing for the Eligible Products in your PayPal account settings, then the following terms will apply to you:
Your customers’ Card Data is handled by PayPal if: (a) your Service is PayPal Payments Advanced, or (b) your Service is PayPal Payments Pro and you choose to activate the “transparent redirect” feature and integrate the feature properly per PayPal’s instructions.
If you are accessing the Products through a platform service partner, you acknowledge that your platform service partner may offer solutions that help you comply with certain of these Merchant PCI compliance standards. While the platform service partner may help you comply or perform certain obligations on your behalf, you remain liable for compliance with these Merchant PCI Compliance standards.
If you are using Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments and VT for payments received through a partner platform service provider, you may not be receiving Card Data, but may receive other confidential information about another PayPal customer in order to fulfill the transaction and you will continue to be bound by the terms of our PayPal User Agreement.
If you accept American Express cards pursuant to this Agreement, the following additional terms will apply to you:
If you choose to integrate eligible third-party wallets as Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments add-on features, you also agree to the following applicable third-party terms:
You acknowledge and agree that the third-party features and terms are provided, updated, and noticed solely by the relevant third party (not PayPal), and that PayPal will under no circumstances be responsible or liable for any damages, losses, or costs whatsoever suffered or incurred by you resulting from any use of such third-party features or acceptance of such third-party terms.
You may not perform dynamic currency conversion. This means that you may not list an item in one currency and then accept payment in a different currency. If you are accepting payments in more than one currency, you must separately list the price of each product or service in each currency.
By using the Services, PayPal permits you to directly accept Cards. With regard to your Card acceptance, you agree to the following:
You acknowledge that PayPal routes and processes transactions, as appropriate, through the Products via the relevant Card Company network(s) as remote (card not present) payments. If you accept a Card that is physically presented to you at the point of sale you acknowledge that the scope of your protection from chargebacks will be limited to the protection that is available for remote payments.
The Fraud Protection services may help Merchant screen potentially fraudulent transactions based on the setting the Merchant selects to adopt. For example, with the Fraud Protection services, you may set filter rules, i.e., to instruct PayPal which transactions PayPal will decline on your behalf based on abstract criteria.
PayPal may provide suggestions or recommendations regarding which filters and settings to use that may be appropriate for your business. These suggestions may take into account your profile and past transaction history.
If you are provided access to the Fraud Protection services, then it is your responsibility to set the filter rules. Please note: If you set these filter rules too restrictively, you might lose sales volume. We advise you to monitor your filter rules and settings on an ongoing basis. If you use PayPal Payments Advanced or PayPal Payments Pro, you may have the option to use the Fraud Protection services. If you use the Fraud Protection services, you are responsible for setting preferences for the Fraud Protection services. It is your responsibility to determine which transactions the Fraud Protection services will accept or reject based on the authentication information provided by PayPal.
You acknowledge and agree that you have all rights and authorities to share personal data with PayPal.
It is your sole responsibility to provide any necessary notices and disclosures to, and obtain any required consents from, your Customers on your website or mobile application relating to your use of the Chargeback Protection Tools. You acknowledge and agree that PayPal does not represent or warrant that its risk assessment as part of Chargeback Protection Tools will be error free or that it will identify or prevent all fraudulent transaction activity.
There are two types of Chargeback Protection Tools: “Chargeback Protection” and “Effortless Chargeback Protection”
(a) “Chargeback Protection”: requires you to provide proof of shipment or proof of delivery for goods or services for Eligible Transactions within two days of PayPal’s receipt of the Chargeback claim (or such other time period as otherwise specified by PayPal) and in the manner specified by PayPal in order to retain the Chargeback Costs.
(b) “Effortless Chargeback Protection”: does not require you to provide proof of shipment or proof of delivery for goods or services for Eligible Transactions in order to retain the Chargeback Costs unless the Chargeback claim alleges the product was not received by the buyer. If the Chargeback claim alleges the product was not received by the buyer, in order to retain the Chargeback Costs, proof of shipment or proof of delivery for goods or services must be provided within two days of the Chargeback claim (or such time period as otherwise specified by PayPal) in the manner specified by PayPal.
Chargeback Protection cannot be used simultaneously with Fraud Protection or Fraud Protection Advanced on a single merchant ID (“MID”). Upon enrolling in a Chargeback Protection Tool, your use and access to Fraud Protection or Fraud Protection Advanced will automatically be terminated.
(a) a transaction processed via PayPal; and
(b) a transaction that is payment for goods and services that are not excluded under the terms of the PayPal User Agreement, including but not limited to the Acceptable Use Policy;
“Eligible Transactions” do not include any of the following:
(a) transactions for goods or services which are ineligible for PayPal’s Seller Protection program;
(b) checkout transactions initiated by your agent or representative on the buyer’s behalf (for example, a payment transaction initiated via telephone by the buyer with the assistance of one of your agents); or
(c) transactions which are part of a pre-authorized subscription agreement or recurring billing agreement or other type of reference transaction arrangement between you and the buyer.
To the extent you submit an ineligible transaction for review through the Chargeback Protection tool, PayPal may, at its option, perform the CBT Risk Assessment for that ineligible transaction and charge you the agreed upon fee for the Chargeback Protection Tool. However, such ineligible transactions will not receive the other benefits of the Chargeback Protection tools.
In addition, where the item sold is a ticket(s) for an event that will occur at a future date (an “Event Date”), to be an Eligible Chargeback, the event cannot have been cancelled, and PayPal must receive (1) notice of the Chargeback no more than 7 days in advance of the Event Date or after the Event Date (“Eligible Chargeback Window”), and (2) at the time of the transaction, the "Days before the event date" as a custom field providing the days between the transaction and the event Date. The value for "Days before the event date" includes both the date of the event and the date of the transaction, except if the date of the transaction is the same as the Event Date, the "Days before the event date" is 1. The value in "Days before the event date" cannot be "Zero", "blank", "negative" or fractional values. By way of illustration, if an Event Date is August 12 and the event is not cancelled, to be an Eligible Chargeback, the chargeback must be received by PayPal on or after August 6, and the “Days before the event” custom field must be sent at the time of the transaction. If an Event Date is rescheduled to a later date, only chargebacks received in the new Eligible Chargeback Window will be considered an Eligible Chargeback, provided the event is not cancelled and the custom field with the revised "Days before the event date" is provided to PayPal within 1 business day of the rescheduling of the Event Date.
You may change your selected Chargeback Protection Tool option at any time from the product page. The change will take effect immediately but will only apply to Eligible Chargebacks received for transactions that occur on or after the date you change the Chargeback Protection Services option.
PayPal may also cancel or suspend use of a Chargeback Protection Tool, with or without notice to you, if:
If you use PayPal Payments Advanced, PayPal Payments Pro, VT (as a standalone Service), or Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments, you may be able to enroll in our Account Updater Service.
If you are using the Recurring Billing, Recurring Payments, or the vaulting functionality (including the Vaulting Tool or available third-party vaulting functionality), you agree that it is your responsibility to comply with Card Company Rules and applicable law, including but not limited to obtaining your customer’s consent to store their Card on file for future or recurring transactions and making available a mechanism for your customer to delete their Card on file.
You acknowledge and agree that third-party vaulting functionality is provided and updated solely by the third-party vault provider. You are solely responsible for your use of such third-party vaulting functionality. PayPal will, under no circumstances, be responsible or liable for any damages, losses, or costs whatsoever suffered or incurred by you as a result of any use of such third-party vaulting functionality.
This section applies to your use of Fastlane.
Any personal data provided to you by PayPal in connection with Fastlane will be used by you only to the extent it is necessary and relevant to Fastlane. It shall not be used for anything else (including marketing) unless you have obtained the prior consent of the customer. This excludes any personal data collected by you directly from the customer. You warrant that you will provide and/or obtain all necessary disclosures and consents in connection with any personal data provided to PayPal. You agree that you will only submit personal data coming from a genuine single customer transaction to PayPal through your use of Fastlane. Such transfer of data must be authorised by the customer.
You may not send any customer personal data provided to you by PayPal to a third party, unless such third party is your service provider (as defined by applicable law). You may not combine personal data provided to you by PayPal with any other data. You may not use any personal data provided to you by PayPal to send, or assist in sending, unsolicited emails to third parties.
The Data Portability part of the Agreement does not apply to the Fastlane services. Fastlane Card Information is not portable, including when you have been given consent by your customer to store data collected in connection with the Fastlane service.
You may terminate your use of Fastlane by turning off Fastlane in the control panel. If you no longer wish to collect additional Fastlane-required customer data, you will also need to remove your Fastlane integration when you turn off Fastlane.
Regardless of anything else in this section or the Agreement, Card Information originating from Fastlane transactions (“Fastlane Card Information”) will not be included in the Data Portability services offered under the Agreement. Any termination or suspension of Fastlane will not automatically result in termination or suspension of the Agreement. Even if Fastlane is terminated or suspended, your use of Fastlane Card Information will be controlled by this Agreement.
THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES AND ALL ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION ARE PROVIDED TO YOU ON AN “AS IS” BASIS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. PAYPAL MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE CONTINUOUS OR ERROR-FREE. PayPal does not guarantee, represent or warrant that the Services and related features that enable you to detect or minimize fraudulent transactions will discover or prevent all non-valid or fraudulent transactions. PayPal is not responsible for any non-valid or fraudulent transactions that are processed.
If, in our sole discretion, we believe there may be a high level of risk associated with you, your PayPal account, your business model, or your transactions we may take certain actions in connection with your Account and/or your use of the Services.
You represent and warrant to PayPal that each transaction that you process through the Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments, PayPal Payments Pro, or VT Services is solely in payment for your provision of bona fide goods and/or services to your customers (each, a “Payor”). You hereby designate PayPal, and PayPal hereby agrees to serve, as your limited agent for the sole purpose of receiving such payments on your behalf from your Payors. You agree that upon PayPal receiving payment from a Payor: (a) you shall be deemed to have received payment from such Payor, (b) such Payor’s obligation to you in connection with such payment shall be satisfied in full, (c) any claim you have for such payment against such Payor shall be extinguished and (d) you are obligated to deliver the applicable goods and/or services to the Payor, in each case regardless of whether or when PayPal remits such payment to you. PayPal will remit to you in accordance with this Agreement or apply as an offset to any obligation you may have to PayPal, any such payments it receives on your behalf. Any receipt provided to the Payor shall be binding on you and shall satisfy all applicable regulatory requirements. This paragraph states the entirety of PayPal’s duties as your agent for receipt of payment, and no other duties shall be implied by PayPal’s undertaking to act in that capacity.
“Account Updater Service” means the Service which may be offered by PayPal to Merchant (if available) in which PayPal may update applicable customer Card Data of eligible Cards using information and third-party sources available to PayPal, as further described in Section 12. In providing this Service, PayPal may obtain, on Merchant’s behalf, applicable updated customer Card Data of eligible Canadian-issued Cards from participating Canadian card issuing banks and other third-party sources for use in the processing of Merchant’s Recurring Billing, Recurring Payments, or other eligible transactions using the Services.
“Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments Services” means the Services provided or made available by PayPal under this Agreement in association with Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments, as described in more detail on the PayPal website.
“Acquiring Bank” means each of the financial institutions PayPal partners with to process your Card payments, including your Direct Payments and VT Payments, and each of your Card funded Express Checkout payments, and with whom you entered into a Commercial Entity Agreement.
“Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments” means the suite of functionality consisting of the Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments API (as the standard online interface) and the Fraud Protection services (as an optional additional Service). This suite of functionality may also include optional add-on features (e.g., integration of eligible third-party wallets) that require your acceptance of additional third-party terms before such add-on features may be used. We may also choose to offer you other PayPal Online Card Payment Services functionality as part of the Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments suite of functionality.
“Agreement” has the meaning provided in the first paragraph of this Agreement.
“American Express” means American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. and its affiliates.
“API” means PayPal’s proprietary application programming interfaces used to interface with the PayPal systems in order to use certain Services.
“Card Company(ies)” means a company or group of financial institutions that promulgate rules to govern Card transactions via bankcard and payment networks including, but not limited to, MasterCard, Visa, Discover, Diners, American Express, and Interac.
“Card Company Rules” means the rules and regulations governing acceptance of Cards, each as updated from time to time. Rules for Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover are available here:
https://usa.visa.com/support/consumer/visa-rules.html
https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/merchants/get-support/merchant-learning-center.html
https://icm.aexp-static.com/content/dam/gms/en_us/optblue/us-mog.pdf
www.americanexpress.ca/merchantguide
https://www.discoverglobalnetwork.com/en-us/partner-with-us/business-owners
“Card Data” means a cardholder’s account number, expiration date, and CVV2.
“Card Information” has the meaning provided in Section 3(g).
“Card(s)” means payment cards branded with the logos of (i) Visa, MasterCard, American Express, JCB, Discover; and (ii) debit networks, including Interac.
“Chargeback Protection Services” means the optional service that provides protection for eligible Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments from “unauthorized” and “item not received” chargebacks, as further described herein.
“CVV2 Data” means the three or four digit number printed to the right of the Card number in the signature panel on the back of the Card. On American Express Cards, it is printed on the front of the Card above the Card number.
“Data” has the meaning provided in Section 3.a.
“Data Recipient” has the meaning provided in Section 3.g.
“Direct Payment” means a payment processed by PayPal through the Direct Payment API that is funded directly by a Card and not through a PayPal account.
“Fastlane” means the optional Fastlane by PayPal Service that allows you to prepopulate payment card and shipping data of Fastlane consumer participants.
“Express Checkout” means the Service where PayPal is a payment option on a Merchant’s website at checkout, with payments being processed by PayPal through the Express Checkout API and funded directly from a User’s PayPal account.
“Fixed Fee” means the portion of the Transaction Fees that is a fixed monetary amount and not a percentage of the payment amount, as identified on the Fees page.
“Fraud Protection” means the optional Services associated with Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments and PayPal Payments Pro that allows you to access additional risk management features that may help protect you from potentially fraudulent transactions, as described in more detail on the PayPal website and in Section 10.
“Fraud Protection Services” means the optional Services associated with PayPal Payments Advanced and PayPal Payments Pro, that allows you to access additional risk management features to help protect you from fraud and chargebacks.
“Interchange Pass-through Costs” means interchange, Card Company fees and bank foreign handling fees passed through to Merchant at cost. Any increase to, or new, interchange fees or other fees introduced by the Card Networks (including, for the avoidance of doubt, assessment fees, brand fees, scheme fees, and card association fees) will be passed through at cost in addition to all current fees. Learn more about Interchange Pass-through Costs here.
“Monthly Sales Volume” means the total payment volume processed by you through any Service using any payment method, which is used for determination of fees as set forth on the Fees page.
“Online Card Payment Services” means the suite of payment processing services offered by PayPal which provide merchants with the ability to accept and receive credit and debit card payments on a website or mobile application where cardholders enter their own Card Data, or by merchants manually entering Card Data given to them by a cardholder. For purposes of this Agreement, these services include the Products.
“Payments Pro Services” means the Services provided or made available by PayPal under this Agreement in association with PayPal Payments Pro, as described in more detail on the PayPal website.
“Payor” has the meaning provided in Section 18.
“PayPal Agreements” has the meaning provided in the second introductory paragraph of this Agreement.
“PayPal Credit” means an open-end, consumer credit account. In jurisdictions where it is offered, it is available to consumers who are of legal age and is subject to credit approval.
"PayPal Payments Advanced" means the suite of Services consisting of Express Checkout and Direct Payments services as standard, and that provides PayPal-hosted checkout, as described in more detail on the PayPal website. Optional additional services include Fraud Protection Services and Recurring Billing, which are all more fully described on our website.
"PayPal Payments Pro" means the suite of Services consisting of Express Checkout, Direct Payments, and Virtual Terminal services as standard, and that provides full checkout page customization, as described in more detail on the PayPal website. Optional additional services include Fraud Protection Services, and Recurring Billing, which are all more fully described on our website.
“PayPal Services” or “Services” means the Online Card Payment Services or other offerings identified or otherwise provided pursuant to this Agreement. Such services may be described more fully on our website.
“PayPal User Agreement” means the online agreement you entered into with PayPal when you opened your PayPal account, as it may have been amended from time to time. The PayPal User Agreement currently in effect can be accessed via the Legal Agreements link in the footer of nearly every page on the PayPal website.
"Products" means (i) Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments, including the Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments Services, (ii) VT, including the Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments Services if you’ve integrated with Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments or the Payments Pro Services if you have not so integrated, (iii) PayPal Payments Advanced, including the Payments Pro Services, (iv) PayPal Payments Pro, including the Payments Pro Services, and (v) Website Payments Pro, including the Payments Pro Services, in each case as described in more detail on the PayPal website.
“Recurring Billing” means the optional feature associated with PayPal Payments Advanced and PayPal Payments Pro that, with the consent of your customer, enables you to set up payments that recur at specified intervals and frequencies as described in more detail on the PayPal website.
“Recurring Payments” means the optional feature associated with Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments, Website Payments Pro and VT that, with the consent of your customer, enables you to set up payments that recur at specified intervals and frequencies, as described in more detail on the PayPal website.
“Risk Data Acquisition Service” includes but is not limited to the Fraudnet, Magnes, and STC ingtegrations.
“Risk Factors” has the meaning provided for in Section 2.g.
“Transaction Fees” means the fees provided in Section 2.a.ii. of this Agreement. Note, if you use certain optional Services, certain additional fees may apply to your transactions on a per transaction basis, as outlined in Section 2.a.iv; however, these are not included in this definition.
"Vaulting Tool” means API-based technology provided by PayPal to enable you to store and retrieve card details for payments that recur at specified intervals or frequencies with authorization from the payer. See the PayPal Website and product documentation for further information.
“Virtual Terminal” or “VT” means the Service that enables you to receive a Card payment by manually entering Card Data given to you by a customer through the Virtual Terminal flows.
“VT Payment” or “Virtual Terminal Payment” means a payment processed by PayPal through the Virtual Terminal flows that is funded directly by a Card and not through a PayPal account.
"Website Payments Pro" means the suite of PayPal services consisting of Express Checkout, Direct Payments and Virtual Terminal as standard, as described in more detail on the PayPal website. Optional additional service include Recurring Payments, which are all more fully described on our website.