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Reputation: 3011

get Paypal account holder's detail

I am developing app in iOS and android. I added PayPal feature into app. I am displaying text box to enter receiver's email address. Now the problem is that only US Account holder will be able to receive money through PayPal.

When user enters email address in text field i want to check that paypal account with that email address belongs to U.S. account holder or Non-U.S. account holder.

I tried to search this but couldn't find anything useful.
Is there any way through which i can check this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1630

Answers (1)

Dave Goldman
Dave Goldman

Reputation: 2257

Dave from PayPal here.

@BSThakrar, I'm confused by your question.

Note that you, the creator of the app (or your employer), is going to be the recipient of any payments. As per the comments in PayPalPaymentViewController.h:

// Get a client id from developer.paypal.com. The receiverEmail is the email address
// associated with the PayPal account that you used to log in to developer.paypal.com.

So you cannot change the receiverEmail without also changing the clientId. But the clientId will presumably be hardcoded into your app.

In other words, the PayPal iOS/Android SDKs are not designed to be used for transfers of funds between two third-parties.

Apart from that, there is not a restriction that your receiverEmail PayPal account must be a U.S. account. See Country & Currency Support for PayPal REST API Payments for a list of the countries and currencies currently supported.

Upvotes: 1

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