Developer's Guide

Mobile Payments Library Developer Guide and Reference – Android OS Edition July 2011 19
Simple, Parallel, and Chained Payments
Simple payments have a single recipient. Parallel and Chained payments have multiple recipients
and differ in the how the payments are split.
Simple Payments
Simple payments use the PayPalPayment object which only supports a payment to a single
recipient.
Parallel Payments
Parallel Payments allow you to make payments for any amount to any number of recipients. A
parallel payment is created by making a payment with multiple recipients with no primary
recipient. From the end-user's standpoint, a parallel payment will affect the UI by showing the
details for each recipient. Contrary to chained payments, the recipients of a parallel payment are
not linked together in terms of amount.