PayPal

Use PayPal to send money for your collectives

We offer PayPal as an option for your collectives to send money through PayPal Payouts. In order to activate PayPal Payouts for your collectives please contact us.

Note that the following limitations and prerequisites should be met in order to activate PayPal Payouts.

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Limitations and Prerequisites

• A PayPal business account with:

  • Access to PayPal Payouts.

    • There's a manual request that needs to be filled, more information here.

  • A confirmed identity, email, and bank account linked to your PayPal business account.

  • Sufficient funds in your PayPal business account.

• Payments should respect the fund amount you have accounted for in the platform.

  • You can't pay expenses if the budget accounted for the collective is not enough to cover the transfer expenses.

• The host is still responsible for managing funds in PayPal.

  • Expenses are paid with your PayPal Balance.

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Once we have enabled PayPal for your host, in order to connect your business PayPal account to Open Collective, you will need to go through the following steps.

1. Create a new PayPal app

   • Open PayPal's Developer page and Log In.

   • In My Apps & Credentials page, select the Live environment, and click in Create app.

   

   • Name this App after Open Collective, this way you'll always remember where this token is being used.

   • App Type: Merchant

   • Click Create App.

   

2. In App settings, make sure the following boxes are checked:

   • Accept payments (if you wish to enable payments with PayPal)

   • Payouts (if you wish to enable expenses payout with PayPal)

   • Customer Disputes

   • Transaction Search

   

3. Now, copy the necessary information to Open Collective.

   • Open a new tab and go to Open Collective.

   • Open your Host collective settings page and click on the Sending Money option in the menu.

   • Copy and paste Client ID and Secret in the respective fields.

   • Click Connect PayPal

   

4. Navigate to your Fiscal Host Dashboard > Settings > Sending Money

5. You will see a new section called PayPal and under that there will be two inputs named "Client Id" and "Secret"

6. Enter your "Client Id" and "Secret" which you've obtained before and click "Connect to PayPal"