# The NVP/SOAP API is deprecated

PayPal deprecated these calls without giving a shutdown date yet.

PayPal has deprecated the NVP/SOAP APIs without a shutdown date, noting that it continues to support them as legacy APIs. When support eventually ends, affected calls to the interface will fail.

## What to use instead

Move to the REST APIs, specifically Orders v2 (/v2/checkout/orders) and Payments v2, using PayPal's upgrade hub. The migration requires more than changing an identifier, as the REST APIs require a REST app's client ID and secret instead of the NVP/SOAP API credentials.

The REST APIs need a REST app's client ID and secret in place of the NVP/SOAP API credentials.

- API: PayPal (api-3t.sandbox.paypal.com)
- Kind: Endpoint removal
- Takes effect: no date given yet
- Calls after that day: fail
- Source: [Announcement](https://developer.paypal.com/api/nvp-soap/)
- Verified: October 26, 2026, against PayPal's own pages
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/providers/paypal/breaking-changes/the-nvp-soap-api-is-deprecated/

## PayPal's words

> Deprecation notice: PayPal's NVP/SOAP APIs are legacy APIs, but PayPal continues to support them.

Okapi finds the calls this change hits in your repo and opens the pull request with the fix: https://github.com/apps/okapi-agent