Last updated on 26 September 2022
Last updated on 26 September 2022
About this Agreement
This Online Card Payment Services Agreement ("Card Agreement") is a contract between you (“Merchant” “you” “your”) and PayPal Pte. Ltd. ("PayPal", "we", "us" or "our" as the context may require). You agree that any use by you of the any of the Online Card Payment Services (as defined below) that we offer to you will constitute your acceptance of this Card Agreement and we recommend that you store or print-off a copy of this Card Agreement.
This Card Agreement, the PayPal User Agreement, and any other applicable agreement(s) you have entered into with PayPal (collectively “PayPal Agreements”) shall apply to your use of the Online Card Payment Services. To proceed with obtaining one or more of the Online Card Payment Services below, you must read, agree with and accept all of the terms and conditions contained in this Card Agreement.
We may amend or otherwise revise this Card Agreement and any applicable policies from time to time. The revised version will be effective at the time we post it on the PayPal Website unless otherwise noted. If our changes reduce your rights or increase your responsibilities, we will post a notice on the Policy Updates page of our Website and provide you with the same length of advance notice as set forth in the PayPal User Agreement. Advance period will not be provided where a change relates to the addition of a new service, extra functionality to the existing Services, or any other change which we believe in our reasonable opinion neither reduce your rights nor increase your responsibilities. In such instances, the change will be made without notice to you and will be effective immediately at the time we post it on our Website.
By continuing to use the Online Card Payment Services after any changes to this Card Agreement, you agree to abide and be bound by those changes. If you do not agree with any changes to this Card Agreement, you may, as applicable, terminate your use of the Online Card Payment Services as set out in clause 7 before such changes become effective and/or close your account. While you may close your PayPal account at any time and without charge, please note that you may still be liable to us after you terminate this Card Agreement for any liabilities you may have incurred and are responsible for prior to terminating this Card Agreement.
“Online Card Payment Services” means the suite of payment processing services offered by PayPal which provide merchants with the ability to accept and receive credit and debit card payments on a website or mobile application or via phone. For purposes of this Agreement, these services include Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments, Fraud Protection, Payments Pro, and Virtual Terminal.
For purposes of this Agreement, these Services include:
Each of the Services above includes one or more of PayPal’s online card payment services APIs or PayPal’s SDKs.
Capitalised terms are defined in section 12 below. Please view, download and save this Card Agreement.
In consideration of PayPal providing the Services to you, you agree to pay the fees in the amount and manner as agreed upon with PayPal during the application process.
If you use Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments, Payments Pro, or Payments Pro Payflow you must use PayPal Payment Button in the following manner:
If you are using the Recurring Billing or Recurring Payments feature, you agree that it is your responsibility to comply with Association Rules, and applicable law, including by capturing your customers’ agreement to be billed on a recurring basis.
PayPal utilises services from banking partners in processing Card Transactions, including both direct payments to you from a card as well as Card Transactions that fund a PayPal payment to you. Schedule 2 below applies in relation to those services. In accepting this Card Agreement, you also accept the terms for Card Transactions in Schedule 2, the terms of which form part of this Card Agreement.
If you are offered and choose to use the Fraud Protection Service, the terms in Schedule 3 below will apply to your use of that functionality.
Capitalised terms not listed in this clause are defined in the User Agreement or above in this Card Agreement.
a. Acquiring Institution: means a financial institution or bank that provides services to you to enable you to (a) accept payment by cardholders using cards; and (b) receive value in respect of Card Transactions.
b. Activation Date: The date on which you complete all of the steps for “Getting started” as listed in clause 1(a) above.
c. Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments: Means the suite of functionality consisting of the Advanced Credit and Debit Card Payments API (as the standard online interface) and Fraud Protection (as an optional additional Service). This suite of functionality may also include optional add-on features (e.g., integration of eligible third-party wallets) that require your acceptance of additional third-party terms before such add-on features may be used. In such cases, the additional third-party terms will be provided to you at the time of enrollment.
d. Association Rules: the applicable obligations, rules and guidelines issued by Visa USA, Europe, Asia Pacific, Canada and other Visa regions, MasterCard International Incorporated, American Express Company or other applicable Card Associations, including, without limitation, the Visa Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP), Visa Account Information Security Program (AISP), the MasterCard Site Data Protection Program and PCI DSS. Further information can be found by visiting the following URLs: www.visaeurope.com, www.visaeurope.com/en/businesses__retailers/payment_security/overview.aspx and https://www.mastercard.com/sdp.
e. AVS: Information returned by the “Address Verification System” operated by or on behalf of Card Associations, which compares address data provided by an apparent cardholder with address data on file for the card at the card issuer.
f. Card Association: A company or group of financial institutions which promulgates rules to govern Card Transactions via cards and payment networks that carry the company’s or the group’s brand. Examples include (where applicable) Visa USA, Visa Europe, and the other Visa regions; MasterCard International Incorporated; American Express Company and similar organisations.
g. Card Data: All personal or financial information relevant to a Card Transaction, including information recorded on the card itself (whether in human-readable form or digitally), together with the cardholder’s name and address and any other information necessary for processing a Card Transaction.
h. Card Transaction: A payment made using a credit or debit card, an American Express card, or any other payment method using a physical data-carrying item intended to be held in the payor’s possession. The Services support only certain types of Card Transactions; see the PayPal Website for more information.
i. CVV2 Data: The three-digit number printed to the right of the card number in the signature panel area on the back of the card. (For American Express cards, the code is a four-digit unembossed number printed above the card number on the front of the American Express card.) The CVV2 Data are uniquely associated with each individual plastic card and ties the card account number to the plastic.
j. Monthly Fee: A fee payable on a monthly basis as required in clause 2 above.
k. PayPal Payment Button: means where PayPal is a payment option on a Merchant’s website at checkout, with payments being processed by PayPal through the PayPal APIs and funded directly from a user’s PayPal account.
l. “PayPal Services” or “Services” means the Online Card Payment Services or other offerings identified or otherwise provided pursuant to this Card Agreement. Such services may be described more fully on our Website.
m. PayPal Website: means www.paypal.com/sg.
n. PCI DSS: Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, i.e. specifications prescribed by Card Associations to ensure the data security of Card Transactions. A copy of PCI DSS is available online from https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org.
o. Recurring Billing means the optional feature that, with the consent of your customer, enables you to set up payments that recur at specified intervals and frequencies, as described in more detail on the PayPal Website.
p. Recurring Payments means the optional feature that, with the consent of your customer, enables you to set up payments that recur at specified intervals and frequencies, as described in more detail on the PayPal Website.
q. Shared Customer: A person who both has a PayPal account and is also your customer.
r. User Agreement: The online agreement you entered into with PayPal as part of the online registration process required to open a PayPal account, as it may have been amended from time to time. The current User Agreement is to be found via a link from the footer of nearly every page on the PayPal Website. It includes certain policies, notably the Acceptable Use Policy and Privacy Policy, which are also listed on the PayPal Website.
Data Security Requirements
When processing the personal data of cardholders whose transaction data the Merchant submits to PayPal, PayPal will, at all times, ensure that the security measures employed in respect of the storage, transmission or any other processing of such personal data:
Bank Agreements
PayPal uses services from third parties to process card transactions. The relevant agreement is located at https://www.paypal.com/al/webapps/mpp/ua/ceagreement-full?locale.x=en_AL (Commercial Entity Agreement for PayPal Payment Card Funded Processing Services).
Terms of use of the Fraud Protection Functionality