How do I transfer money from one account to the other using PayPal

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I need to transfer money form an accountant to some employees using PayPal, from within an internal application. On PayPal website it is specified that a transfer of money is free(inside USA) or that the fee is smaller than for payments (outside USA).

The scenario is:

  1. login as accountant in the internal application
  2. click a button: pay employee
  3. if the accountant is not logged into PayPal, he should be redirected to the PayPal page and login
  4. only after the accountant has logged in, he can do the money transfer
  5. the accountant goes to PayPal and approves the money transfers

I saw the options of using Classic API or Rest API.However, I did't find a call for "transfer money" I have found only "create payment" options and succeeded in implementing the "pay" call using Classic API credentials.

So, how do I transfer money from one account to the other using PayPal. What it's better to use: Rest API or Classic API? How exactly to I use any of the two opetions?

Thanks

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Possible duplicate of: stackoverflow.com/questions/1559808/… – Cᴏʀʏ
I've seen that question. However, it doesn't answer my question about how to use 'transfer money' and not 'pay money' – Gabi

1 Answers

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Looks like what you are looking for (based on your fee requirements) is "Personal Payments". You can implement Personal Payments using the classic API called "Adaptive Payments". All you need to do is set the PaymentType as "PERSONAL" if your payment use cases qualify as personal payments. You can find out how to use Adaptive Payments APIs here: https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/adaptive-payments/gs_AdaptivePayments/