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How commerce gets connected

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Help maximize conversion throughout the shopping journey

Cart page

Give your customers a better experience by letting them go straight to payment with one click.

Product page

Show an option to use PayPal earlier in the shopping journey to let customers skip ahead when they're ready to buy.

Mobile app

Take advantage of the shift to mobile commerce by displaying the PayPal button in your own app.

Capabilities that provide security, scalability, and performance

More choice for shoppers. Drive revenue for your business.

Drive conversion by letting your customers use the payment options they prefer.

PayPal Wallet

Your customers can conveniently pay with their preferred payment methods, all safely stored in one place.

71%
of PayPal users surveyed are strongly agreed that they more likely to buy when PayPal is present at checkout5

Merchant deals and cashback

Customers can search thousands of coupons and cashback deals via the PayPal app or PayPal Honey browser shopping extension

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Help fuel your growth with PayPal

Reach an engaged and loyal network of 426 million active accounts ready to pay with PayPal.1

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Performance that drives results

Attract loyal customers

Offering PayPal as a payment method can help bring more buyers, because of the trust, speed and security of our product.2

Acquire more shoppers

PayPal can help increase unplanned purchases by 20% for large enterprise merchants.3

Accelerate checkout

In Canada, Card payment completion rates through PayPal Checkout are up to 5 percentage points better than market average for businesses.4

Drive conversion rates

PayPal can help increase checkout conversion thanks to our fast way to pay.2

1
PayPal Earnings-FY, 2023, based on PayPal internal data.
*Active accounts are accounts that have completed a transaction within the past 12 months.
2
Nielsen, commissioned by PayPal, September 2022. Nielsen Media Attitudinal Survey of Canadian purchasers (July 2022) with 4,006 recent purchasers (past 2 weeks) from large enterprise merchants, including 2,016 PayPal transactions & 1,996 non-PayPal transactions. Typical checkout includes credit / debit cards, digital wallets, electronic transfers, cash on delivery, and others.
3
Nielsen, commissioned by PayPal, September 2022. Nielsen Media Attitudinal Survey of Canadian purchasers (July 2022) with 4,006 recent purchasers (past 2 weeks) from large enterprise merchants, including 2,016 PayPal transactions & 1,996 non-PayPal transactions. Typical checkout’ includes other mobile wallets, credit/debit cards, BNPL, prepaid /gift cards, and other.
4
Comparative analysis showing average auth rates of major global payments network and PayPal internal data, from online transactions over a 12-month period between Oct 2022 – Sept 2023. Among SMBs. Excludes transactions from Amazon and Meta.
Delta (arithmetic difference) between PPCP (card processing) and market authorization rates based on number of transactions.
LEs: Merchants with estimated annual revenue over $20M in CA.
5
Available on eligible purchases. Limits apply.