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How much permission do you need from paypal to do this?

I suppose the main barrier is how annoying their UI is? And your ability to get a share of the interchange?

Tough to say. I know that Recurly has gone the approach of supporting any number of gateways (http://recurly.com/gateways/). Is there a technical limitation of Stripe that doesn't allow for this?

The stripe API is incompatible with Paypal's, you can't make arbitrary charges on paypal's API.

I was under the impression PayPal does allow charges with their Direct Payment API (i.e. Payments Pro). Are you specifically referring to the fact you have to be redirected to their site for login to do so?

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/paypal-payments-pr...

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