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 re-authorise 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.