beehiivYou send an invoice through PayPal on the 1st. On the 24th you remember it.
It’s still unpaid, and nobody chased it, because PayPal is the tab you open least. The money is real. It just lives somewhere you don’t look.
What the board shows
Two things, mostly. Your recent transactions, newest first, so a payment lands on the board you already have open. And your invoices, so the unpaid ones sit where you’ll see them every day until they clear.
You ask for what you want in plain words. “List my PayPal invoices that are still unpaid” becomes a list. When you want a number PayPal doesn’t send as one, like this week’s total, your agent writes a small custom widget that adds it up from your transactions. Custom widgets run sealed off, with no network access of their own.
Put a sticky note beside the invoices with your own rule for chasing them. It’s there at the moment it matters.
Where the numbers come from
PayPal runs an MCP server, the same one AI apps use to work with PayPal. The board signs in to it on PayPal’s own page, with your PayPal login. There’s no key to find, copy or keep safe.
That server can also create invoices and issue refunds. The board never runs those tools. It only runs the ones that read, and it reads while your board is open. If PayPal doesn’t answer, the widget keeps the last good list and says what went wrong and when.
PayPal next to your other revenue
If you also sell through Stripe, Lemon Squeezy or Square, put them on the same board. Each connects on its own. Then “how did this week go” is one glance, not three logins and a spreadsheet.
The business dashboard shows one way to lay it all out.