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Credit Cards with PayPal REST API

Credit Cards with PayPal REST API My client uses the PayPal NVP API for processing both PayPal and credit cards payments. That appears to be deprecated or PayPal is encouraging upgrading to REST. I convinced my client to do the upgrade and while implementing it I noticed the following: Important: The use of the PayPal REST /payments APIs to accept credit card payments is restricted. Instead, you can accept credit card payments with Braintree Direct. That puts a serious wrench in my work. A little more searching around and I find this option for accepting credit card payments with the REST API: Guest payments with a credit card that is stored in the PayPal vault This would imply to me that the Vault must be used on conjunction with guest payments. Can anyone confirm if that is the case? It looks like to enable guest checkout payments "PayPal Account Optional" must be turned on which I have confirmed is on in my sandbox account. The presumption I am now going on is credi...