PayPal as Payment Processor for RAILS Marketplace App

Question

I have a Ruby on Rails webapp that is using Stripe Connect to manage payments through buyers and sellers and I take a 6% commission. I understand PayPal Adaptive Payments would be the route to go if I want to incorporate PayPal however they have now added a notice to the API.

> Adaptive Payments moving to limited release
>     
>         Important: Adaptive Payments is now a limited release product. It is restricted to select partners for approved use cases and should
> not be used for new integrations without guidance from PayPal.
>     
>     https://devblog.paypal.com/adaptive-payments-limited-release/
>     
>      Our end goal with this project is to migrate all existing users of Adaptive Payments on to the modern products that will be the core
> of our future development APIs, namely Braintree v.zero and the PayPal
> REST APIs.

Can someone point me in the right direction to set up the same functionality as Stripe Connect for a marketplace using PayPal? I believe Braintree doesn't incorporate PayPal to their marketplace functionality. Is there someway I can develop the chained payments using PayPal REST API? Any direction would be greatly appreciated!!!

Answer 1

PayPal has an adaptive payments SDK for Ruby and if you look at an issue search in activemerchant, you'll see some people discussing projects that have added support for adaptive payments.