This tutorial is designed to explain how Paypal merchant account can be configured in the Payments module
The Paypal Digital Goods Checkout payment method helps you to accept payments through secure Paypal gateway. To achieve this, you’ll need to have Paypal Business Account to accept payments online.
Follow few simple steps to configure your merchant account
- Click Payments tab
- Click wrench
icon in the right
- Click Server Configuration
- Click Add Record
- In the ‘Configure Merchant Account’ popup, in the Provide dropdown, select Paypal
- Enable the check-box to make it active, and provide desired Label
To get the API User ID, Password and Signature, follow the steps described below
- 1. First off, If you do not have a Paypal Business Account, you can sign up on Paypal website and create a Business Account.
- 2. After signing up, you’ll need to have Digital Goods support for your account. To do s, visit www.paypal.com/digitalgoods
- 3. Click Getting Started button
- 4. Click EXPRESS CHECKOUT button
- 5. Now in your Paypal account homepage, under My Account tab, click Profile > My Selling Tools
- 6. In the Selling Online block, locate API Access and click Update next to it
- 7. Under Option 2 block, click Request API credentials
- 8. Click Request API signature radio button and click Agree and Submit button
- 9. Now copy the API User Name, API Password, and Signature and paste them in your Paypal merchant setup in Payments module.
