Import saved PayPal payment methods

You can use the billing_agreement_id parameter of a Setup Intent to import an active PayPal billing agreement to Stripe. The resulting PaymentMethod allows you to charge your existing customer’s PayPal account without the customer needing to reauthorize the billing agreement. This guide shows the steps you need to follow.

Create a Customer object when your customer creates an account on your business. Associating the ID of the Customer object with your own internal representation of a customer lets you retrieve and use the stored payment method details later. If your customer hasn’t created an account, you can still create a Customer object now and associate it with your internal representation of the customer’s account later.

curl -X POST https://api.stripe.com/v1/customers \
  -u "
sk_test_BQokikJOvBiI2HlWgH4olfQ2
:"

After you create a customer, attach a payment method by creating a Setup Intent.

curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/setup_intents \
  -u "
sk_test_BQokikJOvBiI2HlWgH4olfQ2
:" \
  -d "payment_method_types[]"=paypal \
  -d "payment_method_data[type]"=paypal \
  -d "payment_method_options[paypal][billing_agreement_id]"=B-1234556789 \
  --data-urlencode return_url="https://example.com" \
  -d confirm=true \
  -d usage=off_session \
  -d "mandate_data[customer_acceptance][type]"=offline \
  -d customer=cus_XXX

Follow the instructions in Set up future PayPal payments to use this payment method to charge your customers.