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What is PayPal on your bank statement?

A charge appearing as PayPal on your credit card or bank statement is categorized by ParseTx as PayPal.

Merchant Details

PayPal is officially categorized under Transfer (ISO MCC: 4829). Its verified domain is paypal.com. This is generally a one-time charge.

If you are building a fintech app and need to automatically clean up messy transaction descriptors like PayPal, ParseTx can resolve this for you in under 50ms.

Common Statement Descriptors

Here are some of the typical ways this charge appears on credit card or bank statements. ParseTx automatically parses, cleans, and resolves all of these variations to PayPal:

PayPal
PAYPAL.COM
PAYPAL CARD
SQ *PAYPAL
PAYPAL STORE #5821

ParseTx API Response

When you send this transaction to the ParseTx enrichment API, this is the structured JSON you receive back:

{
  "status": "complete",
  "source": "cache",
  "input": "PayPal",
  "merchant": "PayPal",
  "domain": "paypal.com",
  "category": "Transfer",
  "mcc_code": "4829",
  "is_subscription": false,
  "confidence": 0.95
}

Integration Examples

cURL

curl -X POST https://api.parsetx.dev/v1/enrich \
  -H "X-API-Key: pt_live_yourkeyhere" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"transactions": ["PayPal"]}'

Node.js

import { ParseTxClient } from 'parsetx';

const client = new ParseTxClient('pt_live_yourkeyhere');
const response = await client.enrich(['PayPal']);
console.log(response.results[0].merchant); // "PayPal"

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