Plaid VS PayPal

Plaid Reviews

PayPal Reviews

1. Sandra-G    

   almost 2 years ago
   PayPal is cool

   I like PayPal, it has a high security standard. Except when I am the one suffering a chargeback for some flimsy reasons.

Plaid mentions (78)

• Can someone's Venmo/PayPal balance be approved to show up in a 3rd party app?

  Oh this is a https://plaid.com/ use case I think. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Need help finding simulation business bank accounts + credit cards

  My company made a financial dashboard for small businesses that aggregates information from financial institutions into a simplified view. The problem I need to solve: our only way of showing what it looks like when in use, is by connecting our own bank accounts + credit cards, but of course that exposes our personal info. I'd like to setup a demo account using fake financial data that simulates a real world... Source: 10 months ago

• Need A Solution to Amex Business Credit Card Data

  I have been looking into this and found Plaid, Yodlee, and Flinks. I am not 100% if any of these will work. Source: 11 months ago

• (Canada) Does anyone know of an API service that will users to connect with their personal bank and return things like their bank feed?

  Yeah I fully expect to pay, but I am sure there are companies that do this. It's simply reading data, I am not touching anything within the user's bank account. Places like Australia are quite big on open banking I believe, that allows, with proper verification, to access bank account information. I've just found one company plaid.com, it doesn't have all the institutions I was hoping for but the majority of big... Source: 11 months ago

• Intuits Mint is garbage this year, need other recs for tracking expenses.

  Switching platforms won't help. Every money visualization app on the market uses plaid to fetch their data, so every app will have the same data quality issues. Source: 11 months ago

PayPal mentions (1)

• Trying to activate PayPal just brings me to PayPal's website.

  (I live in USA) When I go to payments under my shopify account to add paypal as a payment method I am having trouble doing so. I first click activate paypal > activate paypal express checkout which directs me to a "security challenge" (confirm I am not a robot). Then it just brings me to paypals website (paypal.com/us/home). When I sign in nothing happens, I am just on my paypal homescreen. Source: about 1 year ago