How to save PayPal-Account for future Payments with PayPal REST API and PayPal PHP SDK

Question

I know that it is possible to save the paypal information of a user for future payments. For example: When a user orders food at an online delivery service, the user can save his paypal information and the next time he orders food he must not login to paypal again.

I think what I am looking for is called “Billing Agreement” within the PayPal REST API. What this does not work without a “Billing Plan”, which seems to be for subscritions (recurring payments with the same amount in certain time intervals).

Is Billing Agreement the thing I am looking for?

Thank you very much!

Answer 1

I had the same question and when I asked PayPal Support, they replied that we cannot save PayPal Account details for future with a different amount via Rest API. It was only possible with Express Checkout and now it is deprecated. Reference link of Express Checkout is given bellow

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/express-checkout/integration-guide/ECReferenceTxns/