[rtpg]

There are things that are basically impossible to do with PayPal until fairly recently that were extremely easy to do with Stripe. There's also the massssssive headaches from dealing with PayPal's API (message errors with no documentation) and PayPal's checkout flow can be a barrier.

[debaserab2]

Hmmm. I worked with the Paypal API a long time before Stripe even existed. What was impossible with Paypal's API that was possible with Stripes?

[StavrosK]

I haven't worked with the PayPal API extensively, but Stripe does a lot of customer management, subscription management, itemized invoicing, etc built-in, which I don't think PayPal supports.

Personally, I think any difference in price pays for itself in developer time, unless you have billions of dollars in yearly revenue. The PayPal API always makes me want to gouge my eyes out, whereas the Stripe API is so pleasing to use that I'm looking for reasons to integrate Stripe into things.

[debaserab2]

PayPal supports all of those: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/

You don't need billions in revenue to recoup the cost of a few extra developer hours. Pay pals new REST API doesn't even look that hard to use, either (I've only used their older APIs)

[rtpg]

That stuff is recent and is US only. Stripe is expanding out to other countries