Which paypal API is necessary to create market place?

[streetnoise22]

Which paypal API is necessary to create market place like ebay, where various buyers and sellers make transaction?

[MTS_Jennifer · Accepted solution]

Hello @streetnoise22 

Thank you for posting to the PayPal Merchant Community.

The API that is used to create a marketplace is Multiparty Payments. It allows you to create an onboarding and payments solution for your marketplace or payments platform. 

Here is the documentation:

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/multiparty/

Here is how to create a Platform app for testing:

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/multiparty/create-account/

Here is how to onboard sellers:

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/multiparty/seller-onboarding/

Here is information on how to Build onboarding into your software:

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/multiparty/seller-onboarding/build-onboarding/

Thank you,

Jennifer

MTS PayPal