AI-powered search startup Perplexity has announced a partnership with PayPal to bring seamless, secure commerce to its platform, allowing users to make purchases directly within chat.

Starting this summer in the U.S., Perplexity Pro users will be able to check out with PayPal or Venmo when shopping, booking travel or purchasing tickets—all from a single conversation.

The collaboration marks a major step toward realizing agentic commerce—shopping driven by AI assistants. “We’re making it easy and secure to shop right in the chat when inspiration strikes,” says PayPal CEO Alex Chriss. “It’s a powerful step in making conversational commerce a reality.”

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas highlights the shared focus on trust, noting that the integration supports Perplexity’s mission to provide “accurate, trustworthy answers wherever people are making decisions”.

Through PayPal’s secure tokenized wallet, linked accounts and passkey-enabled checkout flows, the entire transaction process—payment, shipping, tracking and invoicing—will take place behind the scenes. This eliminates the need for passwords and reduces the entire checkout process to a single click or query.

The partnership will also extend Perplexity’s commerce reach to over 430 million PayPal users across nearly 200 markets, backed by PayPal’s fraud detection and security protocols.