Connect PayPal to Bica
Bica links to PayPal through regulated Open Banking access, then does the part nobody enjoys: naming the merchant behind every line, filing it under a category, and keeping a running picture of what you actually spend.
PayPal is where subscriptions go to hide: charges leave through it rather than off your card, so they never appear on a bank statement under a name you recognize. Connecting it is usually how people find the ones they had forgotten.
Start free trialWhat PayPal supports
- Countries
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia and 24 more
- Transaction history
- up to 90 days
- Account types
- Personal, Business, Corporate
- Pending transactions
- Not available
What you get once it's connected
- Every transaction gets a real merchant name instead of a payment-processor code.
- Spending is filed into your own categories, so the totals match how you actually think about money.
- Recurring charges are surfaced together — the subscriptions you forgot are hard to miss once they're on one screen.
- Balances across every account you connect roll into one net-worth figure that updates on its own.
How to connect PayPal
- 1 Create your Bica account and pick PayPal from the list.
- 2 You're handed to PayPal's own login to approve access — Bica never sees your banking credentials.
- 3 Your history is imported and sorted. From then on new transactions arrive on their own.
What Bica can and can't do
Access is read-only: Bica can see transactions and balances, and cannot move money, make payments, or change anything in your PayPal account. The connection runs through a regulated Open Banking provider, you approve it at PayPal itself, and you can revoke it at any time from either side.
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Common questions
Is it safe to connect PayPal to Bica?
Yes. The connection uses regulated Open Banking access that you approve at PayPal, Bica never receives your banking password, and the access it gets is read-only — it cannot move money or change anything in your account.
How much history does Bica import from PayPal?
Up to 90 days, which is what PayPal makes available through Open Banking. Everything in that window is imported and categorized on the first connection.
Do I have to import transactions manually?
No. Once the connection is approved, new transactions arrive on their own and are named and categorized without you doing anything.
Can I connect other banks alongside PayPal?
Yes, and that's the point — accounts at different banks land in one place, with transfers between them recognized as transfers rather than counted as spending.
What does Bica cost?
€5.99 a month or €49 a year, after a 14-day free trial. The trial asks for no card and charges nothing — if you don't want to stay, do nothing.