Available for NPCI International Payments Limited (UPI) users in India and Weixin Pay (also known as WeChat Pay) users in China when shopping online with participating PayPal merchants in the United States. See detailed list of US PayPal merchants in directory featured on this site.
Frequently asked questions
Personal
PayPal World lets you pay or send money using your preferred participating wallet, to a user or merchant that has a PayPal World participating wallet. Whether you're shopping online, paying in-store, or transferring money to friends and family (P2P coming soon), PayPal World ensures a seamless experience using your preferred wallet.
Available for NPCI International Payments Limited (UPI) users in India and Weixin Pay (also known as WeChat Pay) users in China when shopping online with participating PayPal merchants in the United States. See detailed list of US PayPal merchants in directory featured on this site.
PayPal purchase transactions must be made using a PayPal balance only. Paying in-store available for US PayPal customers at select merchants in China through Weixin Pay. Other Wallet Participants coming soon.
Sending and receiving money through separate wallets coming soon. Availability limited by wallet participant and region.
No. PayPal World does not charge fees to consumers or merchants.
No. If your preferred digital wallet is onboarded on to PayPal World, you could make payments via the PayPal World platform. However, depending on your country’s data privacy regulations and your wallet provider’s policies, you may need to provide consent before transacting via PayPal World.
No, there will not be a PayPal World app. Users will continue to use their existing digital wallet apps (e.g., Weixin Pay, any Indian digital app on the UPI network) to make transactions via the PayPal World platform.
You may reach out to your wallet or platform service provider for further details on any questions (e.g., disputes) you may have.
For PayPal users in the U.S., you can pay in stores when traveling abroad using your PayPal balance. Depending on the market, you may either scan a store’s QR code or show your QR code for the merchant to scan. Cards and other linked funding sources are not supported for PayPal World in-store transactions at this time. Availability is currently limited to China.
Business
General Business FAQs
PayPal World provides several benefits to merchants
- PayPal World enables merchants to expand their international reach to billions of additional digital wallet users beyond those supported by their current wallet processor.
- Most merchants can accept payments from PayPal World participants without the need for additional integrations. Existing integrations with your wallet platform, such as PayPal, can be used to access PayPal World, provided you’re on the latest version.
- Once it is enabled, users will gain the ability to unlock additional use cases including agentic commerce and subscriptions for cross-border users.
PayPal World will not charge merchants any fees to accept payments as there is no contractual relationship between merchants and PayPal World. Merchants will continue to maintain their contractual relationship with their wallet platform / processor / acquirer (e.g., PayPal) who will determine fees charged to merchants.
Merchants don’t need to directly onboard with PayPal World. Once your wallet platform / processor / acquirer is onboarded onto PayPal World as a participant, and your processor / acquirer enables the relevant integration with PayPal World, all eligible or participating merchants with that processor / acquirer will be ready to accept payments via PayPal World. Merchants generally will not need to add any new integrations to enable this. You should work with your processor / acquirer to understand when they will be integrating with PayPal World and what the ramp plan is.
If you are onboarded onto PayPal Checkout, reach out to your relevant PayPal representative.
If you are not integrated with a PayPal World participant, you would need to register with a PayPal World participant first.
Note that the contractual relationship of merchants will continue to be with their wallet platform / processor / acquirer, not with PayPal World. Your wallet provider (e.g., PayPal) will have a contractual relationship with PayPal World.
Merchants generally will not need to add any new integrations to enable transactions via PayPal World. Once your wallet platform / processor / acquirer onboards with PayPal World as a participant, you will be eligible to accept payments via PayPal World.
Some processor / acquirers may require you to opt-in to PayPal World transactions while others may automatically enable PayPal World transactions. This decision lies solely with your processor / acquirer.
Most PayPal merchants will be automatically enabled to accept PayPal World transactions without any additional integration. Eligibility requires the latest PayPal integration.
Having a PayPal merchant account is not a requisite to accept payments via PayPal World.
If you are a merchant on another wallet platform / processor / acquirer that is a participant on the PayPal World platform, you will be able to accept payments via PayPal World as well.
PayPal World will be governed by a set of rules that seek to manage risks to participants, their users and merchants. However, risks will be similar to using any existing cross-border payment platform.
The risks associated with PayPal World are not expected to differ from those already present in existing cross-border payment services (e.g., credit card schemes or networks). Participants are responsible for authorizing and authenticating transactions initiated by their own users.
Merchants should reach out to their wallet or platform service provider for further details on the disputes, fraud management, and chargeback process. That wallet provider can initiate a dispute with PayPal World, which will then facilitate a dispute resolution process with the buyer’s wallet provider.
For any disputes / chargebacks, merchants will continue to work with their own wallet provider irrespective of the sending wallet.
Merchants may reach out to their wallet or platform service provider for further details on the disputes, fraud management, and chargeback process.
Rather than having to integrate multiple APMs (alternative payment methods), PayPal World provides you with the opportunity to do a one-time, single integration into a global platform that will continue to grow as we potentially explore more participants.
PayPal World platform rules apply only to wallet participants. Merchants cannot be exempt from, or make changes to, these rules. Merchants should contact their wallet acquirer or provider with any questions related to PayPal World’s platform rules.
Yes, you can accept payments via PayPal World if your wallet or platform service provider is a PayPal World participant.
You can only accept payments via PayPal World if your processor / acquirer is a participant of PayPal World. For example, if you process payments through PayPal, you will be able to accept payments via PayPal World as PayPal (as a wallet) is a participant of PayPal World.
The decision of which wallets to enable (to accept payments) lies with your wallet platform / processor / acquirer. Merchants need to contact their processor / acquirer (who is a participant of PayPal World) if they wish to limit payment options.
Online Merchant FAQs
PayPal World will only provide high-level guidance on what the brand mark usage should be. The actual user interface and experience can vary by merchant, depending on your wallet platform requirements.
International shipping is not required to accept cross-border payments. If you are not offering international shipping then international customers traveling locally can still make payments to you through PayPal World.
In-store Merchant FAQs
You can accept payments from PayPal World participating wallets via your existing QR-codes which the consumers can scan via their app to pay. No changes are required to accept in-store payments via QR code. You can also accept payment via the Show to Pay method, where you scan the customer's QR code.
The QR codes will be existing QR that you are already using today. Both static and dynamic QR codes will be acceptable.
The PayPal World team will work with you to support your marketing and communication efforts.
Participant
For much of the world’s population, international shopping and money transfers are not just difficult, at times they are impossible. While digital wallets have become the preferred payment method in many markets domestically, consumers still require an international payment method to shop overseas. Sending money across borders can be similarly frustrating, with consumers facing fees, barriers, and delays. With PayPal World, your consumers will enjoy benefits including:
Access to shop at more businesses, online, in-store, and with AI agents.
Pay international businesses using their domestic wallet of choice and local currency.
Coming Soon - Seamless money transfers to users across borders.
PayPal World is a cross-border payment network with a vision of supporting cross-border payments. It operates as a unified platform, enabled through a scalable, standardized stack providing network functionality amongst participants.
PayPal World provides a cross-border network that connects wallets and platforms under a common framework. When participants join PayPal World they agree to operate according to a set of rules / operating guidelines (e.g., All participants transacting on PayPal World must comply with AML obligations).
The platform enables 3 primary use cases:
- Online – offering consumers the ability to pay merchants online using their home wallet.
- In-Store – offering the ability to pay merchants by scanning a different digital wallet’s QR than the consumer’s home wallet.
- P2P (Coming soon) – offering the ability to seamlessly send/receive money to/from users outside the sender’s own digital wallet ecosystem using a phone number, e-mail address, or other Proxy ID. Availability will vary by participating wallet and region.
PayPal World will offer an enhanced proposition for your customers and merchants, with a more expansive vision across use cases and geographic focus.
- Use cases: PayPal World aims to enable a more complete set of use cases (Online XO, P2P, and in-person) than what other services offer.
- Reach: We aim to enable cross-border transactions globally across the US, Europe, Asia, Africa, and LATAM.
Relevance: For Online XO use case, PayPal World aims to enable functionality to the participants’ merchant base.
PayPal refers to the digital wallet and payment service that allows you to link your bank account, debit card or credit card to a PayPal wallet or to top up a PayPal wallet (depending on market availability), and spend at online merchants that accept PayPal at checkout. It also allows you to send money to individuals also using a PayPal wallet.
PayPal World refers to the cross-border payment network which enables transactions between digital wallets and other platforms (e.g. a payment network) that are onboarded on the PayPal World network, of which PayPal is one of the participants.
To send or receive a payment through PayPal World, you must have an account with a digital wallet or other platform that is a participant on PayPal World , and the wallet must have enabled PayPal World within the select geography.
The following participants are planned to be part of the PayPal World launch (in alphabetical order):
- PayPal
- Weixin Pay
- UPI
Exact functions (e.g., online shopping, P2P) and geographies activated are subject to each participant’s discretion.
Our long-term goal is to build a global platform of wallet / platform service provider participants with coverage across 50+ top corridors and countries, driving convenience for consumers (‘making payments as easy as sending a text’) and greater cross-border acceptance for merchants.
Yes, PayPal Network Pte. Ltd. is a Singapore incorporated company that is ultimately owned by PayPal Holdings, Inc., a US holding company.
PayPal Network Pte. Ltd. is a separate legal entity from the existing PayPal entities that offer PayPal digital wallet and payment services.
It operates the PayPal World network under the PayPal World brand and performs the operator, processor, and settlement functions for the PayPal World network.
No. PayPal World does not currently support domestic transactions.