By accepting PayPal as a payment method, you can connect with an engaged global network of over 400 million active accounts.

Yes, PayPal can help you acquire new customers. A 2021 study in the US by Forrester found that for the composite merchant, 5% of transactions that come from the PayPal family of payment options (compared to non-PayPal payment methods) are brand new customers to the merchant.⁵

Showing shoppers that they can use their preferred payment method helps conversion and the streamlined PayPal checkout experience help to avoid the friction that can cause shoppers to abandon carts.

Yes, by using the vault flow you can store the PayPal account info and use it for one-off or recurring payments. Our Vault securely stores customer information – including payment method information – so you can safely keep customers on file. It is used to process payments with our recurring billing feature, and can also be used for non-recurring transactions so your customers don't need to re-enter their information each time they make a purchase from you.