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PayPal

Digital wallet that sends and receives money, issues a debit card, offers installment payments and holds savings balances.

FinanceFor consumersMobile app
paypal.com ↗WikipediaWikidata
PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American multinational financial technology company operating an online payments system in the majority of countries that support online money transfers; it serves as an electronic alternative to traditional…First sentence of the English Wikipedia article
At a glanceswept 2026-10-13

≈ 8.2Mvisits/mo

Widely used · estimate, read 2026-10-13

For
Consumers paying, sending and saving money, and businesses accepting payments online and in stores
Price
Price not readpricing page, read 2026-10-14 ↗
App
iPhone & iPad · 4.8★ from 6.3M ratingscurrent version 2026-10-02 ↗
Activity
Actively maintainedrelease 12 days ago
Company
since 1998per Wikidata
Runs as
Mobile app
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What people do with itread off paypal.com on 2026-10-14
  • split a purchase into four interest-free payments
  • send money to other people
  • earn cash back at checkout with a card
The companyeach fact with its source · read 2026-10-14
  • Founded1998per Wikidata
  • Industryfintechper Wikidata
Your datawhat they publish, each line with its page · read 2026-10-14
  • Security contactsecurity.txt

These are PayPal's own statements, read from its pages. We did not audit them. A line that is missing was not found on the pages we read; it does not mean the practice is absent.

How a program reaches itfound, not claimed · read 2026-10-14
  • MCP servercom.paypal.mcp/mcpverified in the MCP registry
  • Stateanswers, requires sign-inchecked 2026-10-14
  • Address to connectmcp.paypal.com/mcp
  • API docsdeveloper.paypal.com/homethe vendor's page ↗

MCP server details →

Each line is something a program found when it went looking: the registry entry, the server's own answer, a spec that parses. A missing line means we did not find it, not that it does not exist.

Alternatives in Financeby use, among tools still maintained

Figure and bar: visits/mo, estimate · year: online since

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Questions this page answers
  • What is PayPal?

    Digital wallet that sends and receives money, issues a debit card, offers installment payments and holds savings balances. It is listed in the Atlas under Finance.

  • Who is PayPal for?

    Consumers paying, sending and saving money, and businesses accepting payments online and in stores

  • Is PayPal free?

    No. Its pricing page showed no free plan on 2026-10-14.

  • Do people use PayPal?

    Widely used: ≈ 8.2M visits/mo · estimate, 2026-10.

  • Is PayPal still maintained?

    Actively maintained: release 12 days ago.

  • Does PayPal have an iPhone app?

    Yes: “PayPal - Pay, Send, Save” on the App Store, rated 4.8 from 6.3M ratings; current version released 2026-10-02.

  • What are alternatives to PayPal?

    In Finance, by use: Online Payment Processing Solution, StackEasy, Bits Money, Digital Capital Ltd, Pashping, CoinMarketCap.

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