Developer's Guide

Introducing Adaptive Payments
Adaptive Payments Actors and Objects
18 August 7, 2012 Adaptive Payments Developer Guide
You are not required to be a receiver. For example, if you own a shopping cart, you are not
required to receive payments directly. You can facilitate payments between the sender and
receivers that provide the actual goods. The following diagram shows the relationship between
a sender, you as an application owner that directs payments to receivers, and PayPal:
This diagram shows a payment in which the sender pays multiple receivers in a parallel
payment. With parallel payments, the sender can see the transaction to each receiver.
The following diagram shows the relationship between a sender, you as an application owner
that directs payments to receivers, and PayPal in a chained payment:
In a chained payment, the sender pays the primary receiver an amount, from which the
primary receiver pays secondary receivers. The sender only knows about the primary receiver,
not the secondary receivers. The secondary receivers only know about the primary receiver,
not the sender.
The following diagram shows the relationship between you as both the sender and the
application owner that directs payments to receivers: