PayPal Express Checkout

Set up PayPal Express Checkout

To configure the PayPal Express Checkout payment provider and payment methods, you should have the PayPal Express Checkout test/live account with all the necessary data.

To test PayPal Express Checkout, you need to create:

• The PayPal Sandbox account at developer.paypal.com. This will create a sandbox environment to test Express Checkout. For more information, see "Creating and managing NVP/SOAP API credentials". You must create Signature API credentials, but not Certificate API credentials.
• The preconfigured seller account in the sandbox environment under the "Test Accounts" menu.
• The buyer accounts in the sandbox environment under the "Test Accounts" menu. These accounts can be used to make test payments in the sandbox environment.

You can customize the look and feel of the PayPal Express Checkout payment window. Log in with the seller account at sandbox.paypal.com and configure the custom styles under: My Account > Profile > Custom Payment Pages.

 NOTE

Make sure that your firewall does not restrict outbound access to the PayPal IP addresses. Thus, you should add PayPal IP addresses to the list of trusted IP addresses to permit traffic to and from PayPal and prevent problems with processing transactions. PayPal recommends using the DNS hostname to determine the IP addresses of their servers. For more information see "IP Address for PayPal servers" on PayPal Merchant Technical Support.