Checkout with PayPal is a one-time payment checkout experience.

Invoking the Checkout with PayPal Flow

First, make sure you have registered your URL type and updated your app delegate. Then, use BTPayPalDriver and BTPayPalRequest to start the process. A transaction amount is required to invoke the one-time payment flow. An example integration might look like this:

Objective-C Swift 
// MyViewController.m
#import "MyViewController.h"
#import "BraintreePayPal.h"

@interface MyViewController () <BTAppSwitchDelegate, BTViewControllerPresentingDelegate>
@property (nonatomic, strong) BTAPIClient *braintreeClient;
@property (nonatomic, strong) BTPayPalDriver *payPalDriver;
@end

@implementation MyViewController

- (void)startCheckout {
    // Example: Initialize BTAPIClient, if you haven't already
    self.braintreeClient = [[BTAPIClient alloc] initWithAuthorization:@"<#CLIENT_AUTHORIZATION#>"];
    BTPayPalDriver *payPalDriver = [[BTPayPalDriver alloc] initWithAPIClient:self.braintreeClient];
    payPalDriver.viewControllerPresentingDelegate = self;
    payPalDriver.appSwitchDelegate = self; // Optional

    // Specify the transaction amount here. "2.32" is used in this example.
    BTPayPalRequest *request= [[BTPayPalRequest alloc] initWithAmount:@"2.32"];
    request.currencyCode = @"USD"; // Optional; see BTPayPalRequest.h for other options

    [payPalDriver requestOneTimePayment:request completion:^(BTPayPalAccountNonce * _Nullable tokenizedPayPalAccount, NSError * _Nullable error) {
        if (tokenizedPayPalAccount) {
            NSLog(@"Got a nonce: %@", tokenizedPayPalAccount.nonce);

            // Access additional information
            NSString *email = tokenizedPayPalAccount.email;
            NSString *firstName = tokenizedPayPalAccount.firstName;
            NSString *lastName = tokenizedPayPalAccount.lastName;
            NSString *phone = tokenizedPayPalAccount.phone;

            // See BTPostalAddress.h for details
            BTPostalAddress *billingAddress = tokenizedPayPalAccount.billingAddress;
            BTPostalAddress *shippingAddress = tokenizedPayPalAccount.shippingAddress;
        } else if (error) {
            // Handle error here...
        } else {
            // Buyer canceled payment approval
        }
    }];
}

@end

Shipping address

Shipping addresses may or may not be collected during the PayPal Vault flow. However, if you choose to collect shipping addresses yourself, it can be passed along with the your server side Transaction.Sale call. Look at the Server-side page for more information.

Country support

PayPal is available to merchants in all countries that we support and to customers in 140+ countries.

Currency presentment

The currency of the transaction is presented to the customer in the Checkout with PayPal flow. We support all currencies that PayPal REST APIs support.

See the server-side section for details on charging a transaction in a specific currency.

PayPal Credit

US and UK merchants can add PayPal Credit to a Checkout flow integration with a few additional lines of code. For full info on the availability and benefits of offering PayPal Credit, see the support article. For integration details, see the developer guide.

Next: Server-side →

Still have questions?

If you can’t find an answer, contact our Support team.