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PayPal MCP Server

The PayPal MCP server enables AI agents to interact with the PayPal platform. PayPal is a global online payments system that supports online money transfers and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods like checks and money orders. This MCP server allows AI assistants to programmatically access and manage PayPal account information, transaction details, payment processing, and potentially other financial services offered by PayPal.

Authorization required. Pod connected on 2026-08-31 and the server answered, but it requires authorization before listing tools. The 28 tools below remain publisher-reported and unverified.

Categorised under financial-services. Published by paypal.com.

Status

Pod connected to PayPal on 2026-08-31. It answered, but requires authorization before it will list its tools, responding in 498ms.

Why the tool list is not verified

PayPal refuses an anonymous tools/list, which is the correct thing for a server holding real user data to do. Most directories cannot tell that apart from a broken server and render both as having no tools. It is not broken — it is gated, and it answered us to say so.

Tools

Its publisher lists 28 tools. Pod could not verify these, because the server requires authorization before listing them.

Connect

A hosted endpoint at https://mcp.paypal.com/mcp, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "paypal": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.paypal.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Firsthand observations

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