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Send PayPal.me, Send Money and Donate button tips to Konduit by pasting your Konduit notification URL into PayPal's Instant payment notifications settings.

Updated 2026-10-16 · support@konduit.gg

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Konduit receives PayPal tips through PayPal's Instant Payment Notification (IPN). You create a notification URL in Konduit and paste it into your PayPal account. There is no PayPal key or token to copy: Konduit checks every notification with PayPal itself.

Before you start

  • Sign in to your Konduit account. Konduit's server creates the notification URL for your account.
  • PayPal keeps working on the free plan. It is a tip service, not a streaming platform.

Set it up

  1. Open Integrations and find the PayPal card.
  2. Click Connect. The card's Advanced panel opens.
  3. Click Create notification URL. Your URL appears under Notification URL.
  4. Click the copy button next to the URL.
  5. In PayPal, open Account Settings, then Notifications, then Instant payment notifications, and click "Update". How to turn on IPN opens PayPal's own guide if you need it.
  6. Paste the URL as the notification URL, choose "Receive IPN messages (Enabled)" and save.

Check that it works

Click Verify first event, then send a real tip to the account within 30 seconds. Notifications from PayPal's sandbox or IPN simulator reach Konduit but are never counted as money.

Until the first notification arrives, the panel reads URL ready · Connected after PayPal sends its first notification. That is normal: the card turns Connected after PayPal's first notification.

What you'll see

  • A completed Send Money or Donate button payment to that account fires a tip alert and is added to your revenue. A PayPal.me payment should arrive the same way, as Send Money.
  • A refund or reversal of a counted tip removes it from your revenue.
  • Pending payments wait until PayPal reports them completed. Subscription and recurring payments are not counted as tips.
  • The first live notification links your URL to your PayPal account. The panel shows Pinned PayPal account with the end of the merchant ID. Notifications for any other PayPal account are refused.

If it doesn't work

  • Check that IPN is enabled in PayPal and that the URL there matches the one in Konduit.
  • The pinned PayPal account is not yours: click Permanently revoke access, then click Create notification URL again and paste the new URL into PayPal.

Disconnect

Click Permanently revoke access in the Advanced panel. Then turn off Instant payment notifications (or clear the URL) in PayPal, which Konduit cannot do for you.