> Supposedly, Braintree make it possible to integrate PayPal much more easily.
I've recently gone through that process for our startup and I can attest to that. Once both of your Braintree and PayPal accounts are set up, you just link the PayPal account from the Braintree administration with a few clicks and it's immediately available to customers (if you use the Braintree Drop-in integration that is).
Yes. Once a user goes through the Dropin UI (which involves signing up to their PayPal account), you get a "payment method nonce" which is then used as a parameter when creating a subscription.
I've recently gone through that process for our startup and I can attest to that. Once both of your Braintree and PayPal accounts are set up, you just link the PayPal account from the Braintree administration with a few clicks and it's immediately available to customers (if you use the Braintree Drop-in integration that is).