Payment Links

Payment Links are unique, shareable URLs that let you accept payments instantly with no website or coding. You can send Payment Links to customers via email, text messages, social media, messaging apps, and more. Or you can use the QR code option to collect payments in person. When you use Payment Links, customers will be able to pay with their preferred payment method on a fully-hosted, PayPal-powered checkout page.

A PayPal Payment Link is more than a payment URL. It gives you a PayPal-hosted checkout page where customers can review what they’re buying and complete their payment. You can use it to present your product or service, include details like descriptions and images, and create a more professional checkout experience than simply asking someone to send money.

You can use Payment Links to sell products, services, deposits, appointments, event fees, custom goods, digital items, or one-off offers. Payment Links are especially useful when you sell through social media, messaging, email, text, or in person, because you can send customers directly to a PayPal-hosted checkout page without building a full online store.

Yes. When you create your Payment Link, you can customize the information and options that appear in the checkout experience. It's also possible to create unique links for specific items or services. Add your business name and logo, product names and images, set exact prices, and include descriptions so customers know exactly what they are purchasing.

Yes. A single Payment Link can be shared with multiple customers and reused as often as needed. Anyone who has the link can open it and complete a payment through your checkout page.

Yes. PayPal offers a Payment Links API for platforms, partners, and larger merchants that want to create PayPal-hosted checkout pages programmatically. This is useful if you want to generate checkout pages from another system, such as a CRM, booking tool, website builder, creator platform, vertical SaaS product, or internal workflow. Each API call can create a PayPal-hosted payment page and return a shareable payment link. PayPal hosts checkout and helps handle payment processing, fraud protection, compliance, and settlement, so your platform can deliver payment page creation at scale without building its own checkout infrastructure. Learn more about the Payment Links API in our Dev Docs.

Yes. It's possible to accept payments from customers in 200+ markets. Customers can pay in 130+ currencies while you settle in 23 currencies. Additional fees for cross-border transactions and currency conversion may apply.