> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.vortexiq.ai/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # PayPal on Vortex IQ > Monitor PayPal payment health, authorisation and dispute risk, and catch settlement problems before they hit cash flow. Monitor PayPal payment health, authorisation and dispute risk, and catch settlement problems before they hit cash flow. No changes are made without the configured approval policy. Read-only operations do not modify the connected system; schedules, access scopes, API usage and data handling remain governed by Vortex IQ controls. [Connect or manage this source](https://app.vortexiq.ai/workbench/settings/sources) ยท [View setup guide](/integrations/paypal) | **4** | **4** | **Build your own** | **Ready to build yours** | **115** | | ------------------- | ---------------- | ------------------ | ------------------------ | -------------- | | performance signals | automated checks | automated fixes | workflows | API operations | ## Monitor performance 4 performance signals. Signals with an alert band can raise Nerve Centre alerts; every signal supports a merchant-configured watcher. | Signal | Outcome | Alert behaviour | What it tracks | | ------------------------- | --------------- | --------------- | --------------------------------------- | | **Avg Transaction Value** | Grow revenue | Watch only | Average PayPal transaction value. | | **Total Refunds** | Protect revenue | Merchant rule | Total PayPal refund amount. | | **Total Revenue** | Grow revenue | Watch only | Total revenue from PayPal transactions. | | **Transaction Count** | Run operations | Watch only | Number of PayPal transactions. | ## Audit risks and opportunities A fix status appears only where the action, inputs, approval, verification and recovery controls are mapped. Candidate remediations are never executable. | Check | Severity | Outcome | Why it matters | Fix status | | ----------------------------------------------------- | -------- | --------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------- | | **Dispute rate above 1% (Visa/Mastercard threshold)** | critical | Protect revenue | 1% is the threshold Visa and Mastercard use to flag a merchant as excessive, and crossing it puts the account at risk of monitoring programs, extra fees, and in sustained cases, the ability | Candidate remediation | | **Decline rate above 8%** | high | Protect revenue | More than 8% of payment attempts are being declined. Every decline is a customer who was ready to pay and did not complete the sale, so this is lost revenue at the very last step of the funn | Report only | | **Refund rate spiked > 50% vs 7-day average** | high | Protect revenue | Refunds jumped more than 50% above the recent weekly average. A spike this fast and this size usually has one specific, recent cause worth finding quickly, before it settles into an ongoing | Candidate remediation | | **Payout overdue > 5 days vs typical schedule** | medium | Grow revenue | A payout is running more than 5 days behind this gateway's usual schedule. That is revenue already earned that has not reached the store's bank account, which affects cash flow directly rega | Candidate remediation | ### Build your own automated fixes 4 checks report findings on PayPal today. Turn any finding into an automated fix with a Vortex IQ workflow: **13,885 read and write operations across 229 connectors** are available as building blocks, with approval, verification and rollback on every change. ## Automate approved work Vortex IQ is integrated with **38 read** and **77 write** operations across payment experiencewebprofiles, invoicinginvoices, invoicingtemplates, notification webhooks, billingplans, catalog products on PayPal. Combine them with anything from the **13,885 operations across 229 connectors** to automate the work in your own words. Changes follow the merchant's configured approval policy: the target, proposed change, affected records, risk, reversibility and verification plan are shown before execution. Read-only operations do not modify the connected system. [Create a workflow](https://app.vortexiq.ai/workbench/flows/create?connector=paypal) | Resource | Read operations | Write operations | | ----------------------------- | --------------- | ---------------- | | payment experiencewebprofiles | 2 | 4 | | invoicinginvoices | 2 | 3 | | invoicingtemplates | 2 | 3 | | notification webhooks | 2 | 3 | | billingplans | 2 | 2 | | catalog products | 2 | 2 | | notification webhooklookups | 2 | 2 | | shippingtrackers | 2 | 2 | Signed-in users see the full catalogue in the workflow builder, filtered to the sources they have connected. ### Ready to build your first PayPal workflow Pick a trigger, add the operations above as steps, and every step that changes data pauses for your approval. Monitoring and audits are live now and can start any workflow you build. *** *Generated from the connector capability graph. Counts reflect the servable registry after alias normalisation and de-duplication, and refresh automatically when the registry changes.*