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Can someone's Venmo/PayPal balance be approved to show up in a 3rd party app?
10 points by makingdecisions on Aug 24, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments
If I create my own app, can I get a user to authenticate their Venmo/PayPal OR allow access to their Venmo/PayPal, so that their balance shows up on their account on my app?

I want to be able to pay users within my app, and have their Venmo/PayPal balance reflect that change. Without them needing to leave my app to check their Venmo / PayPal app to see if the payment arrived.



You can use PayPal's API to get the balance assuming the user authenticates: https://developer.paypal.com/api/limited-release/balance-acc...

Venmo might have a similar API: https://venmo.com/docs/users/ (this shows a access_balance permission). Not familiar with it though.

PayPal's API also provide you with their transactions to search through so you might be able to actually verify/highlight your payment directly.


> Without them needing to leave my app to check their Venmo / PayPal app to see if the payment arrived.

They'd get a notification anyway?


But many ppl don't have notifs turned on, that's why


oh this is a https://plaid.com/ use case I think


Isn't that just for banks though? And not Venmo & PayPal?


Or any of the other like 500 Banking as a Service company’s :D




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