Global payment processing

PayPal Braintree. The end-to-end payment platform built for growth.

Deliver seamless checkout experiences with proven and connected solutions.

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Integrated payments solutions

Accept cards, digital wallets, PayPal, Venmo, installment payments, and 20+ local payment methods.

Accept preferred payment methods

Offer all the ways your customers want to pay, including debit and credit cards, digital wallets, PayPal Pay Later and local payment methods—in-store and online.

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Optimize payments

Approve more orders with tools that accelerate revenue, including Account Updater, Network Tokenization, and Smart Retries to increase conversion, minimize costs, and reduce latency.

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Manage risk

We help you protect your business with an integrated and customizable suite of fraud tools, including risk services like Fraud Protection and Dispute Automation.

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Orchestration made simple

Work with multiple payment providers, acquirers, and banks to optimize your customer experience.

Make payouts at scale

Securely send payments to 200+ markets in 135 currencies, supporting bank transfers, direct-to-card transactions, prepaid cards, digital wallets, and more.

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Secure credential storage

Vault your customer's payment info to reduce friction for return shoppers and enable subscriptions.

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Innovation that drives results

20 billion transactions
PayPal processed over 20 billion global payment transactions, totalling trillions of dollars, last year.1
200+ markets around the globe
Scale into new markets and accept payments in 135 currencies.
4% lift in auth rates
PayPal Braintree has shown a rise in transaction authorization rates of 4 percentage points globally.2

Global businesses driving growth with PayPal

PayPal + Pressed

How Pressed grew conversion rates nearly 70% with PayPal Braintree

Read the Pressed case study  

PayPal Braintree helped reduce our efforts and allowed us to focus more on the customer.

— Blaine LaBron, Vice President of Digital Commerce and Technology, Pressed

  • Easy to accept alternative payment methods across online and in-store checkout without costly development time

  • Simplified process without introducing friction to the customer experience

Set yourself apart with a payments platform that brings it all together

Help improve security and approvals

Leverage dynamically updated network tokens to drive conversion and reduce churn.

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Optimize routing

Route transactions to global acquirers and networks that offer the fastest, most reliable, and cost-effective processing.

Retry declined transactions

Intelligently retry declines to increase the chance of transaction success while reducing retry fees.

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Keep data fresh

Use Account Updater to securely make batch and real-time updates for Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover.

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Global card processing that’s built for scale

Accept popular credit and debit card brands and wallets.

  • Offer alternative payment methods including digital wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay
  • Accept local payment methods, PayPal, Venmo (US only), and PayPal Pay Later
  • We will make sure you are compliant with the ever-changing network rules, so that you can focus on running your business

Offer PayPal

and Venmo

Grow your business by connecting to a network of 400+ million active accounts.

  • Meet new shoppers by tapping into one of the world's most popular digital wallets⁴
  • Deliver a seamless checkout that lets customers complete their purchase 43% faster⁵
  • Boost conversion with a payment method that can help increase auth rates by nearly 5%, and nearly 8% for retail purchases⁶
  • Learn more about how to easily offer PayPal, Venmo, and installment payments
33 %
PayPal can help increase checkout conversion by an average of 33% with large enterprise merchants.7

Choose your

integration path

SDK or API

Integrate with our flexible and powerful developer tools.

  • Integrate with our Client SDK for Android, iOS, and JavaScript, and Server SDK for Java, .NET, Node.js, PHP, Python, and Ruby
  • GraphQL, our next-generation API, offers an efficient, flexible integration with the freedom to use any programming language you want without having to update an SDK

Drop-in

or custom UI

Customize your buyer's experience

  • Use our ready-made UI or tailor your own to create a checkout experience that fits your brand
  • Create a seamless, secure checkout flow across all devices
  • Keep your website compliant with PCI standards

PayPal Braintree offers the features you want

Accept

Accept Table
Payment methods Checkout experiences Integrations
Accept payments in 200+ markets, 135 currencies Online web Drop-in UI
Acquiring in 48 markets Mobile web Custom UI (Hosted Fields)
Cards (credit, debit) Mobile app SDK (server and client)
PayPal Payments (PayPal, Venmo, Pay Later, PayPal Credit) In-context API
Wallets (Apple Pay, Google Pay, others) Omnichannel and in-store Third-party integrations
Alternative payment methods (iDEAL, SEPA, and others)

Process and optimize

Process and optimize
Optimized processing Vaulting & orchestration Manage risk
Account Updater Extensible, PCI-compliant vault Intelligent Authentication and 3DS
Network Tokenization
Payments orchestration
Fraud tools
Smart Retries Data sharing with third parties
Advanced fraud tools
Dispute automation

Settle and payout

Accept Table
Settle Payouts
Reporting and reconciliation Multicurrency, multi-payment method funding
Pay in/pay out ledger Streamlined KYC and onboarding
Next day funding8

Grow and manage

Grow and manage
Grow Third party integrations Support
Interchange pricing Partner integrations White glove support
Recurring billing Enterprise plug-ins Global support center
Store Offers 24/7 monitoring
PayPal Rewards
PayPal Shopping
PayPal Honey
Return Bars
Returns Interface

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1
PayPal Earnings Report, FY 2022, based on PayPal internal data.
2
Major global payments network data and PayPal internal data analysis from transactions over a 12-month period from Q4 2020-Q3 2021 in 8 markets (US, UK, DE, AU, FR, IT, ES, CA) across 12 verticals. Does not include transactions from domestic schemes (e.g. Cartes Bancaires, EFTPOS). Composite results weighted across countries (excluding CA) based on size of 2021 digital commerce markets, sourced from Euromonitor.
3
Data is sourced from Pressed, 2021. These results may not be typical and may vary substantially by business. This content is provided for informational purposes only. You should always obtain independent business, tax, financial, and legal advice before making any business decision.
4
Digital Commerce 360 research, September 2021. North America Top 1000 and Europe Databases. PayPal is the most-accepted digital wallet, with more than 75% of the top 1,500 largest online retailers across North America and Europe utilizing PayPal at checkout.
5
PYMNTS.com, The 2022 Buy Button Report: Accelerating Checkout Optimization, August 2022. N=636: Merchants that accepted at least one buy button in Q2-2022, fielded May 23, 2022–June 5, 2022.
6
Comparative analysis of major global payments network and PayPal internal data from transactions over a 12-month period from Q4 2020–Q3 2021 in 8 markets (US, UK, DE, AU, FR, IT, ES, CA) across 12 verticals. Does not include transactions from domestic schemes (e.g. Cartes Bancaires, EFTPOS).
7
Nielsen Study, Commissioned by PayPal, Nielsen Media Behavioral Panel of USA with 408K large enterprise desktop purchase transactions, from 25K consumers between January–December 2022. Checkout conversion measured from the point at which the customers starts to pay.
8
Next day funding varies by market, is available to select merchants, and actual settlement time can vary.