PayPal to Integrate Digital Wallet into ChatGPT for Seamless Purchases
PayPal has reached an agreement with OpenAI to embed its digital wallet directly into ChatGPT, enabling users to make purchases discovered through the artificial intelligence platform as early as next year.
The deal, finalized over the weekend, will allow PayPal’s hundreds of millions of users to utilize the “Buy with PayPal” button within ChatGPT for secure checkouts. Merchants within the PayPal ecosystem will also be able to list their inventory on the AI platform, expanding their reach to ChatGPT’s over 700 million weekly users. This move positions PayPal at the forefront of a growing trend toward AI-powered commerce, potentially reshaping how consumers discover and buy products online.
“We’ve got hundreds of millions of loyal PayPal wallet holders who now will be able to click the ‘Buy with PayPal button’ on ChatGPT and have a safe and secure checkout experience,” said Alex Chriss, CEO of PayPal. The company will also manage crucial payment processing aspects, including merchant routing and validation, streamlining the experience for sellers and eliminating the need for individual sign-ups with OpenAI. PayPal’s existing fraud protections, package tracking, and dispute resolution services will extend to purchases made through ChatGPT, offering both consumers and merchants added security. For more information on secure online payments, visit the Federal Trade Commission’s website.
This partnership builds on OpenAI’s recent e-commerce integrations with Shopify, Etsy, and Walmart, and reflects PayPal’s broader strategy to become a central payments provider for the emerging era of “agentic” AI shopping. PayPal is also collaborating with Google and Perplexity to further expand its presence in this space; you can learn more about PayPal’s innovations on their official website. Chriss emphasized the significance of this shift, stating, “It’s a whole new paradigm for shopping…It’s hard to imagine that agentic commerce isn’t going to be a big part of the future.”
PayPal officials stated the company will continue to expand its use of OpenAI’s enterprise AI products internally to accelerate product development cycles.
Alex Chriss, CEO of PayPal Inc.
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PayPal has signed a deal with OpenAI to have its digital wallet embedded into ChatGPT so users can pay for items found through the leading consumer AI tool, the company told CNBC exclusively.
The agreement, sealed over the weekend, means that starting next year, both sides of PayPal’s ecosystem can plug into ChatGPT: PayPal users can purchase items through the AI platform, and its merchants can sell on it, with their inventory listed there, according to PayPal CEO Alex Chriss.
“We’ve got hundreds of millions of loyal PayPal wallet holders who now will be able to click the ‘Buy with PayPal button’ on ChatGPT and have a safe and secure checkout experience,” Chriss said in an interview.
The move makes PayPal an early part of OpenAI’s efforts to broaden ChatGPT’s use for e-commerce. The thinking is that its 700 million-plus weekly users can lean on artificial intelligence to help them find items, similar to a human personal shopper. Last month, OpenAI said its users could buy from Shopify and Etsy merchants, and two weeks ago it announced an e-commerce deal with Walmart.
“It’s a whole new paradigm for shopping,” Chriss said. “It’s hard to imagine that agentic commerce isn’t going to be a big part of the future.”
PayPal is attempting to position itself as a payments backbone for the coming era of agentic AI shopping, announcing recent deals with Google and artificial intelligence firm Perplexity.
The company will also manage merchant routing, payment validation and other behind-the-scenes aspects of payment processing for PayPal sellers on ChatGPT, so individual merchants don’t have to sign up with OpenAI, the firm said.
Chriss touted the fact that both consumers and merchants have been verified by the fintech firm, reducing the risk of fraud for either group. Users can pull funds from linked bank accounts or credit cards, or stored balances, to pay for purchases, and they’ll get protections, package tracking and dispute resolution.
“It’s not just that a transaction can happen,” Chriss said. “It’s that this is a trusted set of merchants, the largest merchant network in the world from PayPal, that are verified, with the largest set of verified consumers in a consumer wallet.”
PayPal also said it is expanding the use of OpenAI’s enterprise AI products for its employees to speed up product cycles.
