The Gravity Forms PayPal Add-On stores each payment feed as a row in gf_addon_feed with the meta column carrying the PayPal merchant ID, business email, currency, product mapping, recurring schedule, return URL, and IPN notification URL. Entries land in gf_entry with payment_status, transaction_id, payment_amount, and payment_date columns the add-on populates when PayPal hits the IPN endpoint.

SleekAI exposes those tables as named variables the bot can reference at request time. A staff member asks 'did Mark's $59 PayPal payment last Wednesday clear', and the bot can pull the entry, the payment_status (Paid, Pending, Failed, Refunded), the stored PayPal transaction ID, and answer with the actual data. Display conditions scope a payments bot to /wp-admin/ and the administrator or shop_manager role only, so transaction data never leaks to the front end.

Generic bots cannot do this. They have never seen your feed configuration, do not know which form maps to which PayPal merchant, and cannot tell a Pending IPN from a completed capture. SleekAI works against the live schema, so it quotes the exact amount, currency, payer email, and PayPal transaction ID without inventing anything.

The PayPal Add-On is how plenty of Gravity Forms sites collect money for tickets, donations, and one-off purchases. The operational reality is that staff spend disproportionate time matching humans to PayPal transactions. A customer emails asking if their ticket payment cleared.

A finance person needs yesterday's PayPal total per feed. Support has to figure out which of today's eCheck Pendings still need chasing. The data is sitting in WordPress, in the same database the form lives in, but most teams either click through entry detail pages or jump to the PayPal business dashboard and lose the form context.

A generic AI chatbot cannot bridge that. It does not know which form took the payment, which feed processed it, or which PayPal transaction ID is on the entry row. SleekAI runs against the actual Gravity Forms tables with the access an admin already has, so the bot becomes a fast layer on top of the data the add-on collects.

The answers reference real amounts, real entry IDs, real payer emails, and real IPN status values. The result is faster customer replies, fewer dropped charges, and a much more honest answer when someone asks if a PayPal payment went through.