DEBUGGING You can see the raw SOAP XML sent and received by Business::PayPal::API by setting its $Debug variable: $Business::PayPal::API::Debug = 1; $pp->SetExpressCheckout( %args ); this will print the XML being sent, and dump a Perl data structure of the SOM received on STDERR (so check your error_log if running inside a web server). If anyone knows how to turn a SOAP::SOM object into XML without setting outputxml(), let me know.