Last updated on November 18, 2024
Last updated on November 18, 2024
(Previously the PayPal Online Card Payment Services Agreement)
This PayPal Online Payment Services Agreement (“Agreement”) is a contract between you (“Merchant”, “you” and “your”) and PayPal, Inc. (“PayPal”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) and governs your use of the Online Payment Services. You must read, agree with, and accept all of the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement and the PayPal User Agreement to use any of the Online Payment Services set forth herein. By continuing to use any such Online Payment Services, you also agree to remain in compliance with all of the terms and conditions in this Agreement and the PayPal User Agreement, so please read all of the terms and conditions carefully.
This Agreement, the PayPal User Agreement, and any other applicable agreement(s) you have entered into with PayPal (collectively “PayPal Agreements”) shall apply to your use of the Online Payment Services. If any inconsistency exists between the terms of the PayPal User Agreement and this Agreement, then, except for PayPal Checkout, the terms of this Agreement shall control in connection with your use of the Online Payment Services. The terms of the PayPal User Agreement shall control for any inconsistency for PayPal Checkout.
We may amend or otherwise revise this Agreement and any applicable policies from time to time. The revised version will be effective at the time we post it unless otherwise noted. If our changes reduce your rights or increase your responsibilities, we will provide notice of such changes in accordance with the terms of the PayPal User Agreement. By continuing to use our Online Payment Services after any changes to this Agreement, you agree to abide and be bound by those changes. If you do not agree with any changes to this Agreement, you may, as applicable, terminate your use of the Online Payment Services before such changes become effective and/or close your account.
For purposes of this Agreement, “Online Payment Services” means services offered by PayPal:
If you choose to activate Interchange Plus Plus pricing, then the following terms will apply to you:
You understand that revocation of the Debit Authorization does not terminate, cancel, reduce, or otherwise affect the obligations you owe to PayPal, and the Debit Authorization applies only to the method of payment and does not have any bearing on amounts due to PayPal under the Agreement.
If you fail to comply with the requirement to use PayPal Checkout described in Section 1.11, you may be subject to up to a 1% fee increase to your then current Transaction Fee rate. This fee may be included in your initial rate when you first sign up for the Online Payment Services, or may be added at any time by PayPal with thirty (30) days’ prior written notice of the fee increase. You agree to terminate your use of the Online Payment Services if you do not agree to this fee.
If PayPal determines that your PayPal account receives, or is likely to receive, a disproportionately high number of customer complaints, Reversals, chargebacks, disputes, claims, fees, fines, penalties or other liability (collectively “Risk Factors”), you may be subject to up to a 5% fee increase above your then current Transaction Fee rate. This fee may be added to your initial rate when you first sign up for the Online Payment Services, or may be added at any time by PayPal with thirty (30) days’ prior notice of the fee increase. You agree to terminate your use of the Online Payment Services if you do not agree to this Fee.
You agree to submit only any transactions for processing which represent a bona fide, permissible transaction free of liens, claims, and encumbrances other than ordinary sales taxes; as outlined in this Agreement and in the Card Company Rules, or which accurately describes the product or services being sold or the charitable donations being made. You authorize PayPal to submit transactions to and receive settlement from American Express and to disclose transaction and merchant information to American Express to perform analytics and create reports, and for any other lawful business purposes, including commercial marketing communications purposes and important transactional or relationship communications. You also agree to ensure data quality and that any Data is processed promptly, accurately and completely, and complies with the Card Companies’ technical specifications. You agree not to process transactions or receive payments on behalf of any other party or redirect payments to any other party. You agree not to bill or collect from any cardholder for any purchase or payment on the card unless you have the right to do so under the Card Company Rules.
Your customers’ Card Data is handled by PayPal if: (a) your Service is Payments Advanced, or (b) your Service is Payments Pro Payflow and you choose to activate the “transparent redirect” feature and integrate the feature properly per PayPal’s instructions. In order to verify your PCI DSS compliance in connection with these Services, you must complete PCI DSS compliance certification pursuant to the requirements that we notify to you via email.
If you are accessing the Online Payment Services through a platform service partner, you acknowledge that your platform service partner may offer solutions that help you comply with certain of these Merchant PCI compliance standards. While the platform service partner may help you comply or perform certain obligations on your behalf, you remain liable for compliance with these Merchant PCI Compliance standards.
If you are using Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments and VT for payments received through a partner platform service provider, you may not be receiving Card Data, but may receive other confidential information about another PayPal customer in order to fulfill the transaction and you will continue to be bound by the terms of our PayPal User Agreement.
If you choose to integrate eligible third-party wallets as Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payment add-on features, you also agree to the following applicable third-party terms:
You acknowledge and agree that the third-party features and terms are provided, updated, and noticed solely by the relevant third party (not PayPal), and that PayPal will under no circumstances be responsible or liable for any damages, losses, or costs whatsoever suffered or incurred by you resulting from any use of such third-party features or acceptance of such third-party terms.
You may not perform dynamic currency conversion. This means that you may not list an item in one currency and then accept payment in a different currency. If you are accepting payments in more than one currency, you must separately list the price of each product or service in each currency.
By using the Online Payment Services, PayPal permits you to directly accept Cards. With regard to your Card acceptance, you agree to the following:
You acknowledge that PayPal routes and processes transactions, as appropriate, through the Online Payment Services via the relevant Card Company network(s) as remote (card not present) payments. If you accept a Card that is physically presented to you at the point of sale you acknowledge that the scope of your protection from chargebacks will be limited to the protection that is available for remote payments.
The Fraud Protection services may help Merchant screen potentially fraudulent transactions based on the setting the Merchant selects to adopt. For example, with the Fraud Protection services, you may set filter rules, i.e., to instruct PayPal which transactions PayPal will decline on your behalf based on abstract criteria.
PayPal may provide suggestions or recommendations regarding which filters and settings to use that may be appropriate for your business. These suggestions may take into account your profile and past transaction history.
If you are provided access to the Fraud Protection services, then it is your responsibility to set the filter rules. Please note: If you set these filter rules too restrictively, you might lose sales volume. We advise you to monitor your filter rules and settings on an ongoing basis. If you use Payments Advanced or Payments Pro Payflow, you may have the option to use our Fraud Protection services. If you use our Fraud Protection services, you are responsible for setting preferences for the PayPal Fraud Protection services. It is your responsibility to determine which transactions the Fraud Protection services will accept or reject based on the authentication information provided by PayPal.
You acknowledge and agree that you have all rights and authorities to share personal data with PayPal.
PayPal reserves the right to change integration requirements upon notice.
Your application for Chargeback Protection Services will be assessed by PayPal, and we may accept or reject applications at our sole discretion. You are not permitted to enable Chargeback Protection Services or Fraud Protection or Fraud Protection Advanced at the same time. Upon enrolling in Chargeback Protection Services, your use and access to Fraud Protection or Fraud Protection Advanced will be terminated. PayPal reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel or suspend your use of Chargeback Protection Services for any reason it deems appropriate at any time upon reasonable notice to you or immediately if reasonable notice is impracticable in order to maintain the security of PayPal’s systems and/or your account is no longer in good standing.
If you are approved and enroll in Chargeback Protection Services, we will waive our right to recover the amount of any unauthorized chargeback and item not received chargeback losses made on “Eligible Transactions” (as defined below) pursuant to the PayPal User Agreement (see the ‘Refunds Reversals and Chargebacks’ section), and we will not charge a chargeback fee pursuant to the PayPal User Agreement. This means, in the event of an Eligible Chargeback, you will keep the transaction amount, and you will not pay any chargeback fee for such transaction. However, you must respond to our requests for documentation and other information within the required timeframe when you enroll in Chargeback Protection Services, as described below (“Chargeback Protection Services Options” and “Establishing proof of delivery or proof of shipment”).
Chargeback Protection Services are provided with two options – “Effortless Chargeback Protection” and “Chargeback Protection” (both as defined below).
Eligible Chargebacks. Chargeback Protection Services only apply to chargeback claims involving: (i) transactions not authorized by the cardholder, as determined by PayPal; and (ii) transactions where the item was not received (“Item Not Received”) by the buyer (collectively “Eligible Chargebacks”).
Eligible Transactions. Chargeback Protection Services only apply to Eligible Chargebacks on Card transactions processed by PayPal that meet the criteria set forth below (“Eligible Transactions”):
Card transactions processed via the Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments checkout integration; and
Card transactions for goods and services that are not (1) excluded under the terms of the PayPal User Agreement, including but not limited to the Acceptable Use Policy, or (2) “Ineligible Transactions” (as defined below).
Ineligible Transactions. Chargeback Protection Services do not apply to chargebacks involving transactions where the item received by the buyer is not what they ordered (“Significantly Not as Described”).
Chargeback Protection Services also do not apply to items or transactions that are ineligible for PayPal’s Seller Protection program (“Ineligible Transactions”). The list of the ineligible items or transactions for PayPal’s Seller Protection program are adopted and incorporated by reference, and can be found here.
You may change your selected Chargeback Protection Services option at any time from the product page here. The change will take effect immediately but will only apply to Eligible Chargebacks received for transactions that occur on or after the date you change the Chargeback Protection Services option. For the purpose of illustration:
For example, if you change your selection from the “Effortless Chargeback Protection” option to the “Chargeback Protection” option on September 1, but an unauthorized chargeback or Item Not Received chargeback is filed in relation to a transaction that occurred on August 1, you must still pay the higher “Effortless Chargeback Protection” fee on such transaction, but you will not be required to provide proof of shipment or proof of delivery for unauthorized chargeback only transaction. For any unauthorized chargebacks or item not received chargebacks filed on transactions that occur or after September 1, you will pay the lower “Chargeback Protection” fee, but you will be required to provide proof of shipment or proof of delivery in accordance with the “Chargeback Protection” requirements.
If you use Payments Advanced, Payments Pro, Payments Pro Payflow, VT (as a standalone Service), or Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments, you may be able to enroll in our Account Updater Service.
PayPal offers services that allow merchants to originate Automated Clearing House (“ACH”) credit and debit entries to a bank account (the “ACH Services”) and Merchant desires to use such services. Such entries are sent by PayPal, acting as a Third-Party Sender, to the Originating Depository Financial Institution (the "ODFI"), which it forwards through the ACH system to the Receiving Depository Financial Institution (the "RDFI"), who debits or credits the bank account of Merchant’s customer (the "Receiver"). Merchant agrees that its use of the ACH Services is subject to the terms herein and the applicable provisions of the Agreement. Merchant accepts and agrees to comply with all such terms. Capitalized words and phrases used and not otherwise defined in this Agreement have the same meaning as given to them in the operating rules and guidelines of the National Automated Clearing House Association (administrator of the ACH network - “Nacha”), as amended from time to time (the "Nacha Rules", is available on Nacha’s web site). Merchant shall not originate entries on behalf of any third-party. In case Merchant intends to act as a Nested Third-Party Sender, it must enter into a separate agreement with PayPal before it originates any entries.
Merchant will pay PayPal the fees and charges as agreed in writing, as well as other amounts owed, pursuant to this Agreement. Such other amounts shall include, without limitation, any amounts charged to PayPal and/or Merchant by Nacha in connection with Merchant’s use of the ACH Services. Any amounts owed to PayPal under these terms may be deducted from any payout to Merchant or debited from Merchant’s bank account.
Merchant agrees to (i) undertake the responsibilities of an Originator under the Nacha Rules and to comply with and be bound by such rules and other applicable laws and regulations related to use of the ACH network (as may be amended); and (iii) not originate entries that violate these ACH Service Terms, laws of the United States and/or the Nacha Rules.
Merchant shall operate and use the ACH Services in accordance with the transaction limits set by PayPal and/or the ODFI in accordance with the Nacha Rules. PayPal can modify the applicable transaction limits upon reasonable notice.
For debit Web Entries, Merchant must:
PayPal may offer you the ability to validate your customers’ bank account information (including account number, routing number, and/or account holder name) in connection with the ACH Services (“PayPal’s Validation”). In that case, PayPal may share certain data from your customers with its third-party service providers (“Data Sources”) and such Data Sources may collect certain Data related to your customers from third-party information sources where such customers hold accounts and share it with PayPal.
2.8.1. To the extent that Merchant obtains access to Data in connection with PayPal’s Validation, Merchant shall comply with the obligations set forth in the ACH Services Addendum (in addition to the ones in Section 3.4 of this Agreement).
Merchant shall comply with any request made by PayPal, the ODFI, their personnel, auditors and/or representatives for the following: (i) access to Merchant’s facilities, data and records relating to the initiation of entries for the purpose of performing audits or on-site visits to verify Merchant’s compliance with these ACH Service terms and the Nacha Rules; and/or (ii) copies of Merchant’s Annual Audit reports/results. Merchant shall provide, and shall cause its subcontractors to provide, the access and assistance that may be required by PayPal, the ODFI, their personnel, auditors and/or representatives, including, but not limited to, copies of any data, records, authorizations, audit reports/results, if requested, as well as any other information reasonably requested relating to entries originated by the Merchant.
Merchant represents and warrants to PayPal, as an Originator of entries under the Nacha Rules, that: (a) no entry delivered to PayPal or the ODFI, if accepted by the ODFI, will cause PayPal or the ODFI to be in violation of any regulation or sanction administered by the federal or state government or otherwise causes PayPal or the ODFI to be in violation of federal or state law or the Nacha Rules; and (b) it makes the same warranties to PayPal that PayPal, as Third-Party Sender, makes under the Nacha Rules to any ODFI when PayPal transmits an entry.
Merchant shall indemnify, defend and hold PayPal, the ODFI, any third-party and their employees, officers, directors and agents, harmless from and against any and all claims, demands, losses, liabilities or expenses (including attorneys’ fees and costs) resulting directly or indirectly from or arising out of (a) Merchant’s breach of the Nacha Rules or of these ACH Service Terms; (b) Merchant's acts and/or omissions; and (c) compliance by PayPal, the ODFI and the RDFI with any request for a cancellation, stop payment, reversal, or recall of any entry originated by Merchant. PayPal shall have no responsibility for any delay by any ODFI, ACH Operator or RDFI in processing any entry PayPal transmits to the ODFI or failure to process or credit or debit any such entry.
In addition to the term and termination rights in set forth in this Agreement, PayPal or the ODFI may terminate or suspend Merchant’s use of the ACH Services for violation of any Nacha Rules, including, without limitation, acceptable limits for ACH returns. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in these terms or the Agreement, PayPal is not required to include ACH data in any forwarding or portability services offered under the Agreement.
You understand and agree that you are providing PayPal with your “written instructions” in accordance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and you are authorizing and acknowledge that PayPal may obtain your personal credit report from a credit bureau for the purpose of your use of the Online Payment Services. You further understand and agree that you are authorizing PayPal to obtain your credit report on an ongoing basis for account review purposes.
If you have signed up for any of the Online Payment Services pursuant to a promotional period, you agree to pay any applicable monthly fee upon the expiration of a promotional period offered by PayPal.
You are fully responsible for the security of data on your website or otherwise in your possession or control. You agree to comply with all applicable laws and rules in connection with your collection, security and dissemination of any Data on your website.
This section applies if you use Payments Advanced, Payments Pro, Payments Pro Payflow, VT (as a standalone Service) and ACH Services. If you are using the Recurring Billing, Recurring Payments, or vaulting functionality, including the Vaulting Tool or available third-party vault functionality, you agree that it is your responsibility to comply with Card Company Rules, Nacha Rules and applicable law (including the Electronic Funds Transfer Act (Reg E)), including by capturing your customers’ consent to store their Card and/or bank on file for future or recurring transactions and making available a mechanism for your customer to delete their Card and/or bank on file.
You acknowledge and agree that third-party vault functionality is provided and updated solely by the third-party vault provider (not PayPal). PayPal will under no circumstances be responsible or liable for any damages, losses, or costs whatsoever suffered or incurred by you resulting from any use of such third-party vault functionality.
This section applies to your use of the Fastlane service.
Any personal data provided to you by PayPal in connection with the Fastlane service, excluding personal data collected or obtained by you directly from the customer, will be used by you only to the limited extent that is necessary and relevant to the Fastlane service and no other purpose, including marketing purposes, unless you have obtained the prior express consent of the customer. You represent, covenant, and warrant that you will provide and/or obtain necessary disclosures and consents, as applicable, in connection any personal data provided by you to PayPal. You may not disclose or distribute any customer personal data provided to you by PayPal to a third party, unless such third party is your service provider (as defined by applicable law). You may not combine personal data provided to you by PayPal with any other data. You may not use any personal data provided to you by PayPal to send, or assist in sending, unsolicited emails to third parties. You agree that you will only submit personal data to PayPal through your Fastlane integration in connection with a bona fide single customer transaction or merchant store account creation and as authorized by the customer.
For purposes of clarification, the Data Portability provision (Section 3.g) of this Agreement, in its entirety, does not apply to the Fastlane services. Data collected in connection with the Fastlane service is not portable, including when you have been given consent by your customer to store data collected in connection with the Fastlane service in your or, if applicable, your platform provider's vault.
Termination of Fastlane service. In addition to any other termination rights in this Agreement, PayPal reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate or suspend use of Fastlane at any time upon reasonable notice or immediately (a) for any breach of this section; or (b) if we determine that your use of Fastlane could expose PayPal to financial loss or legal liability.
You may terminate your use of Fastlane acceleration and profile creation functionality by disabling Fastlane in your account settings. If you no longer wish to collect additional Fastlane-required customer information, you will need to remove your Fastlane integration when you disable Fastlane.
In the event that we terminate or suspend your use of Fastlane or you disable Fastlane in your account settings, customer information stored through Fastlane will remain available for future transactions through the Services so long as you received authorization from your customer to save that customer information. You may elect to disregard Fastlane customer information, or to delete Fastlane customer information from your stored customer information.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section or the Agreement, Fastlane customer information will not be included in the Data Portability services offered under the Agreement. Fastlane customer information is not portable, including when you have been given consent by your customer to store data collected in connection with the Fastlane service.
For the sake of clarity, any termination or suspension of your use of the Fastlane services will not automatically result in a termination of the agreement or suspension of the PayPal Services. Notwithstanding any termination or suspension of the Fastlane service, your use of Fastlane customer information will remain subject to this Section.
THE ONLINE PAYMENT SERVICES AND ALL ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION ARE PROVIDED TO YOU ON AN “AS IS” BASIS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. PAYPAL MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT THE ONLINE PAYMENT SERVICES WILL BE CONTINUOUS OR ERROR-FREE. PayPal does not guarantee, represent or warrant that the Online Payment Services and related features that enable you to detect or minimize fraudulent transactions will discover or prevent all non-valid or fraudulent transactions. PayPal is not responsible for any non-valid or fraudulent transactions that are processed.
If, in our sole discretion, we believe there may be a high level of risk associated with you, your PayPal account, your business model, or your transactions we may take certain actions in connection with your Account and/or your use of the Online Payment Services.
a. Reserves. PayPal, in its sole discretion, may place a Reserve on funds held in your PayPal account when PayPal believes there may be a high level of risk associated with your Account. If PayPal places a Reserve on funds in your PayPal account, they will be shown as “pending” in your PayPal Balance. If your PayPal account is subject to a Reserve, PayPal will provide you with notice specifying the terms of the reserve. The terms may require that a certain percentage of the amounts received into your PayPal account are held for a certain period of time, or that a certain amount of money is held in reserve. PayPal may change the terms of the Reserve at any time by providing you with notice of the new terms.
b. Additional Actions. We may take other actions we determine are necessary to protect against the risk associated with your PayPal account including requesting additional collateral from you such as a letter of credit or a personal guarantee. PayPal may contact your customers, on your behalf, in the event that PayPal is investigating potential fraud.
c. Information. In order to determine the risk associated with your PayPal account, PayPal may request at any time, and you agree to provide, any information about your business, operations or financial condition. We reserve the right to reassess your eligibility for any Online Payment Service if your business is materially different from the information you provided in your application.
a. By Merchant. You may terminate your use of the Online Payment Services at any time. Merchant may terminate its acceptance of American Express at any time upon notice.
b. By PayPal. PayPal may terminate your use of the Online Payment Services if:
i. You fail to comply with the terms of, or are unable to pay or perform your obligations under, this Agreement or any of the PayPal Agreements that apply to the Online Payment Services;
ii. We decide, in our discretion, that you become ineligible for the Online Payment Services because there is a high level of risk associated with your PayPal account or for any other reason, or upon request by any Acquiring Bank or any of the Card Companies or any ODFI.
iii. You violate any Card Company Rule or the Nacha Rule as they may be amended from time to time.
c. Effect of Termination. If your use of any Online Payment Service is terminated, you agree to complete all pending Card transactions, immediately remove all logos for Cards (as applicable), and stop accepting new transactions through such Online Payment Service. You will not be refunded the remainder of any applicable Monthly Fees that you have paid for such Online Payment Service.
You represent and warrant to PayPal that each transaction that you process through the Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments, PayPal Payments Pro, VT Services or ACH Services is solely in payment for your provision of bona fide goods and/or services), other than money transmission services, to your customers (each, a “Payor”). You hereby designate PayPal, and PayPal hereby agrees to serve, as your limited agent for the sole purpose of receiving and processing such payments on your behalf. You agree that upon PayPal receiving payment from your Payor: (a) you shall be deemed to have received payment from your Payor, (b) your Payor’s obligation to you in connection with your payment shall be satisfied in full, (c) any claim you have for such payment against your Payor shall be extinguished and (d) you are obligated to deliver the applicable goods and/or services to your Payor, in each case regardless of whether or when PayPal remits such payment to you.
Further, you represent and warrant to PayPal that for each transaction that you process using the Services, promptly upon payment by your Payor, you will provide a dated receipt which shall constitute a record of your acceptance of the Payor’s payment and the satisfaction of the Payor’s obligation to you in the amount stated on the receipt. You agree that the receipts will satisfy all applicable regulatory and Card Company Rule requirements, and that upon PayPal’s request, you will provide to PayPal copies of any such previously issued receipts. You further agree that you will hold out PayPal to your Payors as your agent for purposes of accepting payments on your behalf, including in response to any customer inquiry as to PayPal’s role with respect to a transaction or other reference to PayPal in connection with a transaction. You agree that the transaction reports provided by PayPal to you constitute a receipt evidencing your customer transactions.
This section states the entirety of PayPal’s duties as your agent for receipt of payment, and no other duties shall be implied by PayPal’s undertaking to act in that capacity. This section does not limit in any way PayPal’s rights against you or any funds held by PayPal, including any right of setoff or security interest in such funds. In accordance with this Agreement, PayPal will remit to you, or apply as an offset to any obligation you may have to PayPal, any such payments it receives on your behalf.
Except as otherwise agreed by the parties or as described in the PayPal User Agreement, you agree that any claim or dispute you may have against PayPal must be resolved by a court located in either Santa Clara County, California, or Omaha, Nebraska. You agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of the courts located within Santa Clara County, California, or Omaha, Nebraska for the purpose of litigating all such claims or disputes. This Agreement shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict of law provisions.
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold PayPal, its parent, officers, directors and employees harmless from any claim or demand (including attorneys’ fees) made or incurred by any third-party due to or arising (i) out of your breach of this Agreement; (ii) your use of the Online Payment Services, including, without limitation, chargebacks, refunds, returns, and Card Company or Nacha fines and penalties; (iii) your fraudulent transaction or data incidents.
Our failure to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches.
You agree to comply with all applicable laws, rules, or regulations, including the Card Company Rules and the Nacha Rules.
This Agreement, along with the PayPal User Agreement and any applicable policies and agreements on the Legal Agreements page on the PayPal website, sets forth the entire understanding between you and PayPal with respect to your use of the Online Payment Services. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be struck and the remaining provisions shall be enforced. In addition, your acceptance of Card transactions via a Online Payment Service is also subject to a Commercial Entity Agreement you have with each of the Acquiring Banks.
“Account Monitoring Service” means the optional Service associated with Payments Pro Payflow that receives notifications of suspicious activity, as described in more fully on the PayPal website.
“Account Updater Service” means the Service in which PayPal may update applicable customer Card Data of eligible Cards using information and third-party sources available to PayPal, as further described in Section 12. In providing this Service, PayPal may obtain, on Merchant’s behalf, applicable updated customer Card Data of eligible Cards from participating card issuing banks and other third-party sources for use in the processing of Merchant’s Recurring Billing, Recurring Payments, or other eligible transactions using the Services.
“ACH” has the meaning provided in Section 2.1.
“ACH Authorization” has the meaning provided in Section 2.6.
“ACH Services” has the meaning provided in the fourth paragraph of this Agreement.
“Acquiring Bank” means each of the financial institutions PayPal partners with to process your Card payments, including your Direct Payments and VT Payments, and each of your Card funded PayPal Checkout payments, and with whom you entered into a Commercial Entity Agreement.
“Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments” means the suite of functionality consisting of the Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments API (as the standard online interface) and Fraud Protection services (as an optional additional Service). This suite of functionality may also include optional add-on features (e.g., integration of eligible third-party wallets) that require your acceptance of additional third-party terms before such add-on features may be used. We may also choose to offer you other PayPal Online Card Payment Services functionality as part of the Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments suite of functionality.
“Agreement” has the meaning provided in the first paragraph of this Agreement.
“American Express” means American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. and its affiliates.
“API” means PayPal’s proprietary application programming interfaces used to interface with the PayPal systems in order to use certain Services.
“Buyer Authentication Service” means the optional Service associated with Payments Pro Payflow that enables you to integrate Visa’s Verified by Visa and MasterCard’s SecureCode into Payments Pro Payflow, as described in more detail on the PayPal website.
“Card Company(ies)” means a company or group of financial institutions that promulgate rules to govern Card transactions via bankcard and payment networks including, but not limited to, MasterCard, Visa, Discover, American Express, as well as US debit networks, including Star, Nyce, Pulse, and Accel.
“Card Company Rules” means the rules and regulations governing acceptance of Cards. Rules are available for Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, and for Star, Nyce, Pulse, and Accel upon request, each as updated from time to time.
“Card Data” means a cardholder’s account number, expiration date, and CVV2.
“Card(s)” means payment cards branded with the logos of (i) Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover; and (ii) US debit networks, including Star, Nyce, Pulse, and Accel.
“Card Payment Services” has the meaning provided in the fourth paragraph of this Agreement.
“Chargeback Protection Services” means the optional service that provides protection for eligible Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments from “unauthorized” and “item not received” chargebacks, as further described herein.
“CVV2 Data” means the three or four digit number printed to the right of the Card number in the signature panel on the back of the Card. On American Express Cards, it is printed on the front of the Card above the Card number.
“Data” means any personal, financial, Card, or transaction information.
“Data Recipient” has the meaning provided in Section 1.6.
“Data Sources” has the meaning provided in Section 2.8.
“Direct Payment” means a payment processed by PayPal through the Direct Payment API that is funded directly by a Card and not through a PayPal account.
“Fastlane” means the optional Fastlane by PayPal Service that allows you to prepopulate payment card and shipping data of Fastlane consumer participants.
“Fraud Protection means the optional Services associated with Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments and Payments Pro that allows you to access additional risk management features that may help protect you from potentially fraudulent transactions, as described in more detail on the PayPal website and in Section 10.
“Fraud Protection Services” means the optional Service associated with Payments Advanced and Payments Pro Payflow that allows you to access additional risk management features to help protect you from fraud and chargebacks.
“Interchange Pass-through Costs” means Interchange, Card Company fees and bank foreign handling fees passed through to Merchant at cost. Any increase to, or introduction of, interchange or other fees by the Card Companies (including, for the avoidance of doubt, assessment fees, brand fees, scheme fees, and card association fees) will be passed through at cost in addition to all current fees.
“Merchant’s Annual Audit” has the meaning provided in Section 2.7.b.
“Monthly Sales Volume” means the total payment volume processed by you through any Service using any payment method, which is used for determination of fees as set forth on the Fees page.
“Nacha” has the meaning provided in Section 2.1.
“Nacha Rules” has the meaning provided in Section 2.1.
“ODFI” has the meaning provided in Section 2.1.
“PayPal’s Validation” has the meaning provided in Section 2.8.
“Payments Advanced” means PayPal Payments Advanced (also known as Website Payments Pro Payflow Link Edition), which is the suite of Services consisting of PayPal Checkout, PayPal Credit, and Direct Payments Services as standard, and that provides PayPal-hosted checkout, as described in more detail on the PayPal website. Optional additional Services include Fraud Protection services and Recurring Billing, which are all more fully described on our website.
“Payments Pro” means PayPal Payments Pro (Website Payments Pro), which is also known as Website Payments Pro, and is the suite of Services consisting of PayPal Checkout, Direct Payments, and Virtual Terminal, as described in more detail on the PayPal website. Optional additional Services include Fraud Protection services and Recurring Payments, which are all more fully described on our website.
“Payments Pro Payflow” means PayPal Payments Pro (Website Payments Pro Payflow Edition), which is also known as Website Payments Pro Payflow Edition, and is the suite of Services consisting of PayPal Checkout, PayPal Credit, Direct Payments, and Virtual Terminal services as standard, and that provides full checkout page customization, as described in more detail on the PayPal website. Optional additional Services include Fraud Protection services and Recurring Billing, which are all more fully described on our website.
“Payor” has the meaning provided in Section 1.15.
“PayPal Agreements” has the meaning provided in the second introductory paragraph of this Agreement.
“PayPal Checkout” means the Service where PayPal is a payment option on a Merchant’s website at checkout, with payments being processed by PayPal through the PayPal Checkout APIs and funded directly from a User’s PayPal account.
“PayPal Credit” means the open-end, consumer credit account issued by Synchrony Bank. It is available to U.S. consumers who are of legal age in their state of residence and is subject to credit approval.
“PayPal User Agreement” means the online agreement you entered into with PayPal when you opened your PayPal account, as it may have been amended from time to time. The PayPal User Agreement currently in effect can be accessed via the Legal Agreements link in the footer of nearly every page on the PayPal website.
“RDFI” has the meaning provided in Section 2.1.
“Receiver” has the meaning provided in Section 2.1.
“Recurring Billing” means the optional feature associated with Payments Advanced and Payments Pro Payflow that, with the consent of your customer, enables you to set up payments that recur at specified intervals and frequencies as described in more detail on the PayPal website.
“Recurring Payments” means the optional feature associated with Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments, Payments Pro, and VT that, with the consent of your customer, enables you to set up payments that recur at specified intervals and frequencies, as described in more detail on the PayPal website.
“Risk Data Acquisition Service” includes but is not limited to the Fraudnet, Magnes, and STC integrations.
“Risk Factors” has the meaning provided for in Section 1.4.
“Transaction Fees” means the fees described in Section 3.2.b.ii. of this Agreement and set forth on the Fees page. Note, if you use certain optional Online Payment Services, certain additional fees may apply to your transactions on a per transaction basis, as outlined in Section 3.2.c.; however, these are not included in this definition.
“Vaulting Tool” means API-based technology provided by PayPal to enable you to store and retrieve Card or bank details for payments that recur at specified intervals or frequencies with authorization from the Payor, as described in more detail on the PayPal website.
“Virtual Terminal” or “VT” means the Service that enables you to receive a Card payment by manually entering Card Data given to you by a customer.
“VT Payment” or “Virtual Terminal Payment” means a payment processed by PayPal through the Virtual Terminal flows that is funded directly by a Card and not through a PayPal account.