PayPal REST SDK

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The PayPal REST SDK provides Python APIs to create, process and manage payment. The Paypal REST APIs are fully supported by the sdk.

Before starting to use the sdk, please be aware of the existing issues and currently available or upcoming features for the REST APIs. (which the sdks are based on)

The REST APIs are getting closer to parity with older merchant APIs. Check out https://github.com/paypal/PayPal-Python-SDK#explore-further-payment-capabilities

If deploying on Google appengine and running into issues since requests is a dependency, see #66 for workaround.

System Requirements

PayPal SDK depends on the following system libraries:

• libssl-dev
• libffi-dev

On Debian-based systems, run:

apt-get install libssl-dev libffi-dev

Installation

Install using easy_install:

easy_install paypalrestsdk

Install using pip:

pip install paypalrestsdk

Configuration

Register for a developer account and get your client_id and secret at PayPal Developer Portal.

import paypalrestsdk
paypalrestsdk.configure({
  "mode": "sandbox", # sandbox or live
  "client_id": "EBWKjlELKMYqRNQ6sYvFo64FtaRLRR5BdHEESmha49TM",
  "client_secret": "EO422dn3gQLgDbuwqTjzrFgFtaRLRR5BdHEESmha49TM" })

Configure through environment variables:

export PAYPAL_MODE=sandbox   # sandbox or live
export PAYPAL_CLIENT_ID=EBWKjlELKMYqRNQ6sYvFo64FtaRLRR5BdHEESmha49TM
export PAYPAL_CLIENT_SECRET=EO422dn3gQLgDbuwqTjzrFgFtaRLRR5BdHEESmha49TM

Configure through a non-global API object

import paypalrestsdk
my_api = paypalrestsdk.Api({
  'mode': 'sandbox',
  'client_id': '...',
  'client_secret': '...'})

payment = paypalrestsdk.Payment({...}, api=my_api)

Create Payment

import paypalrestsdk
import logging

# Include Headers and Content by setting logging level to DEBUG, particularly for
# Paypal-Debug-Id if requesting PayPal Merchant Technical Services for support
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)

paypalrestsdk.configure({
  "mode": "sandbox", # sandbox or live
  "client_id": "EBWKjlELKMYqRNQ6sYvFo64FtaRLRR5BdHEESmha49TM",
  "client_secret": "EO422dn3gQLgDbuwqTjzrFgFtaRLRR5BdHEESmha49TM" })

payment = paypalrestsdk.Payment({
  "intent": "sale",
  "payer": {
    "payment_method": "credit_card",
    "funding_instruments": [{
      "credit_card": {
        "type": "visa",
        "number": "4417119669820331",
        "expire_month": "11",
        "expire_year": "2018",
        "cvv2": "874",
        "first_name": "Joe",
        "last_name": "Shopper" }}]},
  "transactions": [{
    "item_list": {
      "items": [{
        "name": "item",
        "sku": "item",
        "price": "1.00",
        "currency": "USD",
        "quantity": 1 }]},
    "amount": {
      "total": "1.00",
      "currency": "USD" },
    "description": "This is the payment transaction description." }]})

if payment.create():
  print("Payment created successfully")
else:
  print(payment.error)

Get Payment details

# Fetch Payment
payment = paypalrestsdk.Payment.find("PAY-57363176S1057143SKE2HO3A")

# Get List of Payments
payment_history = paypalrestsdk.Payment.all({"count": 10})
payment_history.payments

Execute Payment

Only for Payment with payment_method as "paypal"

payment = paypalrestsdk.Payment.find("PAY-57363176S1057143SKE2HO3A")

if payment.execute({"payer_id": "DUFRQ8GWYMJXC"}):
  print("Payment execute successfully")
else:
  print(payment.error) # Error Hash

Subscription

Create subscription payments i.e. planned sets of future recurring payments at periodic intervals. Billing plans serve as the template for a subscription while billing agreements can be used to have customers subscribe to the plan.

Create a billing plan

from paypalrestsdk import BillingPlan

billing_plan = BillingPlan({
    "name": "Fast Speed Plan",
    "description": "Create Plan for Regular",
    "merchant_preferences": {
        "auto_bill_amount": "yes",
        "cancel_url": "http://www.paypal.com/cancel",
        "initial_fail_amount_action": "continue",
        "max_fail_attempts": "1",
        "return_url": "http://www.paypal.com/execute",
        "setup_fee": {
            "currency": "USD",
            "value": "25"
        }
    },
    "payment_definitions": [
        {
            "amount": {
                "currency": "USD",
                "value": "100"
            },
            "charge_models": [
                {
                    "amount": {
                        "currency": "USD",
                        "value": "10.60"
                    },
                    "type": "SHIPPING"
                },
                {
                    "amount": {
                        "currency": "USD",
                        "value": "20"
                    },
                    "type": "TAX"
                }
            ],
            "cycles": "0",
            "frequency": "MONTH",
            "frequency_interval": "1",
            "name": "Regular 1",
            "type": "REGULAR"
        }
    ],
    "type": "INFINITE"
})

response = billing_plan.create()
print(response)

Check out more samples. The Subscription REST APIs are fully supported by the sdk.

Also, check out a flask application demonstrating the use of subscription APIs from both merchant and customer points of view.

Future Payments

Check out this sample for executing future payments for a customer who has granted consent on a mobile device.

Orders

Create and manage Orders, i.e. getting consent from buyer for a purchase but only placing the funds on hold when the merchant is ready to fulfill the order, have a look at samples

Payouts

For creating batch and single payouts, check out the samples for payouts and payout items. The Payouts feature enables you to make PayPal payments to multiple PayPal accounts in a single API call.

Create a synchronous payout

from paypalrestsdk import Payout, ResourceNotFound

payout = Payout({
    "sender_batch_header": {
        "sender_batch_id": "batch_1",
        "email_subject": "You have a payment"
    },
    "items": [
        {
            "recipient_type": "EMAIL",
            "amount": {
                "value": 0.99,
                "currency": "USD"
            },
            "receiver": "[email protected]",
            "note": "Thank you.",
            "sender_item_id": "item_1"
        }
    ]
})

if payout.create(sync_mode=True):
    print("payout[%s] created successfully" %
          (payout.batch_header.payout_batch_id))
else:
    print(payout.error)

Explore further payment capabilities

For exploring additional payment capabilites, such as handling discounts, insurance, soft_descriptor and invoice_number, have a look at this example. These bring REST payment functionality closer to parity with older Merchant APIs.

Customizing a PayPal payment experience

Customizing a PayPal payment experience is available as of version 1.5.0 enabling merchants to provide a customized experience to consumers from the merchant’s website to the PayPal payment. Get started with the supported rest methods and samples.

Webhooks - Receive notifications about PayPal Payments

To receive notifications from PayPal about Payment events on your server, webhook support is now available as of version 1.6.0.

• For creating and managing Webhook and Webhook Events, check out the samples to see how you can use the Python sdk to create and manage webhooks and webhook events.
• See this sample for verifying that the webhook response is unaltered, from PayPal and targeted towards the intended recipient.
• See this sample for parsing webhook payload and getting the resource delivered via the webhook event.

Invoicing

Create, send and manage invoices.

Create an invoice

from paypalrestsdk import Invoice

invoice = Invoice({
  'merchant_info': {
    "email": "[email protected]",
  },
  "billing_info": [{
    "email": "[email protected]"
  }],
  "items": [{
      "name": "Widgets",
      "quantity": 20,
      "unit_price": {
        "currency": "USD",
        "value": 2
      }
    }],
})

response = invoice.create()
print(response)

OpenID Connect

import paypalrestsdk
from paypalrestsdk.openid_connect import Tokeninfo, Userinfo

paypalrestsdk.configure({
  "mode": "sandbox",
  "client_id": "CLIENT_ID",
  "client_secret": "CLIENT_SECRET",
  "openid_redirect_uri": "http://example.com" })

# Generate login url
login_url = Tokeninfo.authorize_url({ "scope": "openid profile"})

# Create tokeninfo with Authorize code
tokeninfo = Tokeninfo.create("Replace with Authorize code")

# Refresh tokeninfo
tokeninfo = tokeninfo.refresh()

# Create tokeninfo with refresh_token
tokeninfo = Tokeninfo.create_with_refresh_token("Replace with refresh_token")

# Get userinfo
userinfo  = tokeninfo.userinfo()

# Get userinfo with access_token
userinfo  = Userinfo.get("Replace with access_token")

# Generate logout url
logout_url = tokeninfo.logout_url()

Check out more samples. The Invoicing REST APIs are fully supported by the sdk.