Developer's Guide

16 August 2012 PayPal Mobile Payments Developer Guide and Reference – iOS Edition
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 supports a payment to a single
recipient.
Parallel Payments
Parallel payments allow you to make payments for any amount to 2 to 6 recipients. You create a
parallel payment by making a payment with multiple recipients that has no primary recipient.
From the buyer’s standpoint, a parallel payment affects the UI by showing the details for each
recipient. Unlike chain payments, the recipients of a parallel payment are not linked together in
terms of amount.