Plenty of customers still want to pay with PayPal, and for some businesses it is the gateway their buyers trust most. Adding it sounds simple until you hit the real work: subscriptions, the webhook and IPN side that tells your system what actually happened, refunds, and keeping your own records in step with PayPal's. We do PayPal integration that holds up after launch, not just on the demo.
Techalyst builds payment flows for businesses and apps across Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, and we run our own paid products, so we know where these integrations go wrong.
What we integrate
- PayPal checkout on your site or app, alongside card payments where you want both.
- Subscriptions and recurring billing, with plans, upgrades and cancellations handled correctly.
- Webhooks and IPN, so a completed or cancelled payment always reaches your system.
- Refunds and dispute handling, with records you can rely on.
- Reconciliation, so your books match PayPal's down to the cent.
Why the webhook side matters
The usual broken PayPal integration trusts the buyer being redirected back instead of the webhook, so a payment that went through never gets recorded, or a cancellation never takes effect. We build the event handling to be logged and idempotent, so your system's truth comes from PayPal and nothing slips through.
PayPal and cards together
Most businesses do not want only PayPal. We commonly run it next to Stripe so customers can pay either way, with both feeding one clean set of records on your side.
Where this fits in Vancouver
Whether you are adding PayPal to a store, a membership site or a custom app, you want someone who has shipped it and dealt with the edge cases. We work with businesses and founders across the Lower Mainland who need payments they can trust.
Depth you can check
We write about the backend patterns that make billing reliable, event handling, idempotency, queues. Our blog shows how we think about the parts of payments that stay invisible until they fail.
Frequently asked questions
Can you add PayPal to my existing site or app?
Yes. Adding PayPal to an existing site or app is a regular part of our work.
Can I offer PayPal and cards together?
Yes. We commonly run PayPal alongside Stripe so customers can choose, with both reconciled on your side.
Do you handle PayPal subscriptions?
Yes. Recurring billing, plan changes and cancellations through PayPal are part of what we build.
Can you fix a PayPal integration that is dropping payments?
Yes. Webhook and IPN bugs that lose payments are common things we are called in to fix.