AI shopping on Perplexity with PayPal

PayPal has made its merchants visible on Perplexity, allowing US consumers to complete purchases directly within the AI answer engine.

This integration enables users browsing Perplexity’s marketplace to move smoothly from searching for products to making a purchase, leveraging PayPal’s verification, protection, and payment processing features without navigating away from the chat interface.

Benefits for Merchants

The partnership introduces merchants to the growing agentic economy with minimal complexity. PayPal’s agentic commerce tools like store sync and agent ready help retailers boost conversions by capturing high-interest buyers during their discovery phase, ensuring secure transactions through fraud detection systems, and building trust in automated shopping environments.

Store sync instantly makes merchant product catalogs discoverable within Perplexity’s search results. Meanwhile, the agent-ready feature facilitates seamless payment processing using existing PayPal configurations, making it easy for retailers to accept payments on the platform. PayPal acts as the backbone of Perplexity’s shopping experience, optimizing agentic discovery and establishing robust storefronts.

Transactions occur instantly within the AI interface, ensuring that retailers are paid directly while retaining control over their customer relationships. This collaboration aligns with both companies’ goals to integrate PayPal’s agentic commerce solutions so users can browse and shop from merchant catalogs in real-time and complete purchases right on Perplexity.

Promotional Offer

To mark the launch, PayPal is offering an incentive for early adopters. From 9:00 am ET on November 25, 2025, to 11:59 pm ET on December 1, 2025, users can receive 50% back on their first purchase up to USD 50 when shopping from Abercrombie & Fitch, Ashley Furniture, Fabletics, Adorama, and NewEgg, with more merchants set to join in the future.