PayPal has announced that U.S. users can now shop directly through Perplexity, a new AI-powered shopping platform. PayPal merchants are now easily discoverable within Perplexity, allowing users to go from researching products to purchasing them without leaving the chat.
This collaboration offers PayPal's trusted features, such as identity verification as well as payment protection, into Perplexity’s shopping experience. Users can now browse products from popular stores, including Abercrombie & Fitch, Ashley Furniture, Fabletics, many more, etc., and make secure purchases in just a few clicks.
For merchants, this partnership makes it simple to tap into the escalating trend of AI-driven shopping. With PayPal’s tools, merchants can instantly sync their product catalogs to Perplexity as well as take payments by utilizing their pre-existing PayPal accounts. This helps merchants reach buyers at the moment they are ready to purchase, escalating sales.
The integration also means all transactions are backed by PayPal’s secure fraud protection, giving shoppers confidence in the buying process.
By creating easy, safe, and personalized ways to send money, make purchases, and sell products, PayPal helps both consumers and businesses in around 200 countries take part in the global economy and succeed.
Executive Statement
According to Michelle Gill, General Manager, Small Business and Financial Services, at PayPal, they are building for the next era of commerce by connecting PayPal’s trusted payments and buyer protection directly to AI-powered shopping. Their collaboration with Perplexity is the opening act of PayPal’s innovation in commerce for the agentic era. This is the continuation of their decades-long commitment to make Artificial Intelligence-driven commerce seamless and interoperable across every platform.
