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And check out PayPal’s video tutorial on the topic below.PayPal Holdings, Inc. If you have any questions or feedback, be sure to reach out to us by tweeting to on Twitter or via our developer support page.
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Feel free to try out other requests in the collection. That’s it! Great job on making a transaction API request to PayPal using Postman. You should receive a 201 response with transaction details: The HTTP method should be set as POST to the /v2/checkout/orders URL:
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How to explore PayPal collections in Postman To support that mission, this blog post will now walk through the steps for how to get started with our collection. Now, we’re excited to release the PayPal Public APIs collection to the public and hope that it’ll help developers integrate PayPal payments seamlessly. PayPal Senior Product Manager Deepa Goyal leading our API Usability exercise The feedback from this exercise helped us improve the collection tremendously. Our team was able to receive perspectives from code-intensive developers and address the needs of low-code and no-code developers who are also a key audience for us at PayPal. Hundreds of developers, as well as people from other functions within PayPal, came together as part of a usability exercise to explore this collection before it was publicly available. Postman allows us to meet the varied skillsets of our diverse developer community while also providing an interface to interact with our API seamlessly.

So, creating a public Postman Collection was a no-brainer for our team. Developers are not all the same.Ī PayPal developer can range from anyone who uses our product to add payment functionality to their website using no-code/low-code platforms (such as Shopify), to coders who build web experiences from the ground up. While APIs are considered to be code-intensive, our team understands that developers who build with PayPal are not all coders.
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Our community provided us with feedback that it can be difficult for developers to get started with our API and that they encounter friction in their experience.īased on these insights, PayPal Senior Product Manager for API Experiences Deepa Goyal collaborated with PayPal Software Engineers Swapnil Sapar and Ankur Tiwari (and other PayPal engineers) to build a solution. This is a guest post written by Travell Williams, software engineer at PayPal.Īt PayPal, we’ve been working hard behind the scenes to make our application programming interfaces (APIs) more accessible to developers of all backgrounds and experience levels.
