Payment to the user using Paypal and Swift

Question

I’ve been trying for days to find an example of Swift code needed to execute a payment to the user.

Paypal’s development guide does not contain Swift syntax and every attempt I made to translate from other languages was unsuccessful.

Answer 1

According to the Paypal public repository on github you cannot do operation of Pagamento(Payout) directly via the iOS SDK:

The SDK Supports two use cases for making Payments - Single Payment and Future Payments - and a third use case for obtaining information about the Customer - Profile Sharing.

To do this type of operation you will have to implement your backend code using one of Paypal’s Apis:

C# | JAVA | Node.js | PHP | Python | Ruby

and then communicate with your backend through the app, for example, using the default REST API

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Here’s an example of how to use the Ruby API to make a payout:

require 'paypal-sdk-rest'
require 'securerandom'
require './runner.rb'

include PayPal::SDK::REST
include PayPal::SDK::Core::Logging

@payout = Payout.new({
                         :sender_batch_header => {
                             :sender_batch_id => SecureRandom.hex(8),
                             :email_subject => 'You have a Payout!'
                         },
                         :items => [
                             {
                                 :recipient_type => 'EMAIL',
                                 :amount => {
                                     :value => '12.34', # valor com até 2 casas decimais representada como string
                                     :currency => 'USD' # código da moeda de 3 letras
                                 },
                                 :note => 'Thanks for your patronage!', # observação para as notificações. A observação é fornecida pelo emissor do pagamento.
                                 :sender_item_id => '2014031400023', # um número de identificação específico do remetente, pode ser usado em um sistema de contabilidade para fins de rastreamento.
                                 :receiver => '[email protected]' # o recebedor do pagamento.
                             }
                         ]
                     })
begin
  @payout_batch = @payout.create
  logger.info "Created Payout with [#{@payout_batch.batch_header.payout_batch_id}]"
rescue ResourceNotFound => err
  logger.error @payout.error.inspect
end

Remembering that: To use Payments, you must request access through your account page. Alternatively, contact your Paypal Account Manager or Customer Support. You must have a Paypal business account.