Win more volume by giving end customers an easy and familiar way to pay
Convenience determines if customers pay online, mail a check, or wait weeks to settle up.
This choice directly impacts your processing volume.
Rainforest's fully embedded PayPal integration gives end customers an easier way to pay so your merchants get paid faster and more payments flow through your platform.
Replace offline cash and checks with PayPal
With 400M+ active accounts1 and global recognition, PayPal helps your merchants get paid on your platform.
higher checkout conversion with PayPal.2
Encourage high-ticket payments on-platform
Offer Pay Later throughout the shopping journey. Customers pay over time. Your merchants get paid up front.
higher average order value with Pay Later.3
Enable Venmo acceptance for your merchants
Connect with 95M active Venmo accounts4, with a payment method Gen Z and Millennials already use and trust.
overall Venmo conversion rate.5
With Rainforest, get the advantage of PayPal, Venmo, and Pay Later without a separate integration
PayPal is fully embedded in Rainforest’s components and uses the same Rainforest API endpoints as card, ACH, and Apple Pay. This means:
Streamlined onboarding
Merchants get access to all payment methods with one simple onboarding flow
Programmable payments
Configure payment amount and platform split via single API for all payment types
Unified reporting
Sort, filter, and drill down into all payments (including PayPal) from one view
Every payment in context
Metadata ties every payment to a customer, location, job, invoice, or other details
Real-time data
Power workflows with real-time payment status, details, and metadata via API
Easy reconciliation
Single daily or weekly deposit with itemized penny-perfect report
Why this is a big deal for your merchants
Across all verticals, merchants need to get paid. With Rainforest's fully embedded PayPal integration, they can expect:
Increased checkout conversion rates
Next-banking-day deposits on PayPal, Venmo, and Pay Later
Less time spent collecting late receivables
Fewer trips to the bank (goodbye cash and checks)
Easy reconciliation and less admin time
Nonprofit
Perfect for faith-based organizations, charities, animal rescues, and other non-profits.
Field Services and Home Services
Optimized for recurring subscription services, high-ticket jobs, and everything in between.
Healthcare
Ideal for direct primary care, optical shops, dental, and other healthcare specialties
Deliver a convenient checkout for end customers, unified experience for merchants, and more volume for your platform.
2 Nielsen Behavioral Panel of USA with 29K SMB monthly average desktop purchase transactions, from 13K consumers between April 2022-March 2023. Nielsen Attitudinal Survey of USA (June 2023) with 2,001 recent purchasers (past 4 weeks) from SMB merchants, including 1,000 PayPal transactions & 1,001 non-PayPal transactions.
3 Globally, the PayPal Pay Later average order value (AOV) is 62% higher than the standard PayPal AOV for small businesses. Internal Data Analysis of Small Business merchants with Pay Later transactions from January – December 2024. Data inclusive of Pay Later transactions across 7 markets (US, UK, AU, DE, ES, IT, FR).
4 Based on PayPal Internal Data - 2024.
5 Based on PayPal internal data of overall conversion rate results for Pay with Venmo from August 2023 - July 2024. Individual results may vary.
6 Logica Research, commissioned by PayPal, January 2024. Logica Research online study among a sample of nonprofit donors from US, UK, CA, and AU who made a monetary donation in the last 3 months to qualify. 3,872 completes total, around 1,000 in each market (but 817 in CA). Study was fielded April 29, 2024–May 14, 2024.
7 Nielsen Survey, commiss. by PayPal, Nielsen Media Attitudinal Survey of USA (Feb 2023) with 3,999 recent purchasers (past two weeks) from large enterprise merchants, including 1,999 PayPal transactions and 2,000 non-PayPal transactions. Base N. PayPal users = 3,350.
8 TRC survey, commissioned by PayPal during November 2022 of 3,001 consumers in the US who made an out-of-pocket healthcare payment in the last 12 months. Base: PayPal (n=2,001) , Venmo (n=1,000).