BookPal
PayPal AI Hackathon 2026 edition · live demo

An AI booking agent for small businesses, paid with PayPal.

Customers book and pay by chatting or talking, in any language. Owners run the business by asking. Refunds follow the business's own policy, automatically.

  • Real AI and real PayPal sandbox payments
  • No sign-up
  • Guided tour in about 5 minutes

Book as the customer

Web chat with voice notes, photos and PDFs, a voice assistant, or your own AI. Log in with your PayPal sandbox account (or the demo's buyer). BookPal knows your usual and takes payment with PayPal.

Run the business

Bookings land on the calendar, refunds follow the policy, memberships are billed monthly by PayPal. Or run it all from your own AI.

Watch it under the hood

A live timeline of every AI step, seat hold, PayPal order, capture and refund, plus every message sent.

Two ways to try it, one session

Book as a customer. Log in with PayPal and you're a regular in Austin. Ask for a haircut, a massage or a beard trim: BookPal finds what's nearby, books it and takes payment with PayPal. Cancel and watch the policy refund.

Run the business. Switch to the owner of Willow & Co. and see the booking, the payment and every alert arrive.

Switch sides anytime from the top bar. Both sides share the same data.

It's a sandbox: fake money only

Pay with this PayPal sandbox buyer. It's also in the side panel during your session.

The sandbox buyer login appears here (and in your session panel).

Your session

  • You're the customer: log in with a PayPal sandbox account (the demo's buyer login is below). Your home is made up, in Austin; your real location is never used.
  • Your own private copy of the demo city. Other visitors never see your bookings.
  • Two inboxes beside the app, customer and owner: confirmations, receipt PDFs, refunds and alerts.
  • Everything is deleted after 24 hours, or when you click End session.

Fair use

So the demo stays fast for everyone:

40chat messages an hour
5PayPal checkouts an hour
10sessions a day per network

If you hit a limit, the app tells you when to try again.

Built for the PayPal AI Hackathon 2026 · BookPal v0.1.0, hackathon edition