I'm looking forward to use PayPal Express Checkout for Digital Goods. I'm using PayPal Business account.
When I was demonstrating in Sandbox, I was getting
We are unable to complete your request at this time. Please try again
later paypal digital goods. We apologize for the inconvenience.
When I verified my PayPal sandbox account it works fine.
Now, for live version I want to use unverified PayPal account, since I'm not ready to be verified yet. I have a plan to be verified in future but not now. But I really need to integrate PayPal payment opt asap. Please let me know if there is any way to accomplish that.
No you must be verified by paypal in order to use a business account. There are many ways to verify and it should be a simple process taking no more then 2 days.
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After X hours of searching and lost-ing inside documentation and this community, I understand that, if :
I'm non US developer
my client is not a US company
I want integrate Paypal in market-place
sending several emails to Paypal support
I need to:
register as Business Account US in paypal.com ( and not in sandbox )
find an US user because I'm not, otherwise I need to fake my address, zip code and state
enter in developer.paypal.com
Someone can answer me YES ? or the right procedure ?
Thanks
from https://developer.paypal.com/docs/faq/#international-developer-questions
"I'm a non-U.S. developer. What products are available to me?
The REST API supports a number of countries and currencies. The REST API provides simple payment processing for common business needs, including PayPal payments, direct credit card payments, authorization and capture, and refunds. For more advanced payment solutions such as parallel and recurring payments, you can use the NVP/SOAP APIs.
If you've previously used our NVP/SOAP APIs, you can continue to use them. Using your old Sandbox email address and password, you can import existing Sandbox accounts on the Sandbox Accounts page."
I started on this page:
https://developer.paypal.com/developer/accounts/
It seems to me that you can type in any random username/password combination and both the drop-in UI widget and the backend will accept it as a valid PayPal account. The payment will go through and everything.
Is there a way I can set Braintree sandbox to only accept real PayPal accounts?
Full disclosure: I work at Braintree. If you have any further questions, feel free to contact support.
The Braintree Sandbox allows you to pass any email address and password you like into the PayPal dialog, as mentioned in Braintree's documentation. You can test with the fake PayPal nonces found on the Testing and Go-Live page, but keep in mind, Braintree didn't actually design the PayPal sandbox for handling end-to-end tests. All PayPal transactions made in the sandbox use the same, fake PayPal account. Because of that, there's no way to configure your Sandbox account to accept real PayPal accounts. We recommend that when you go live, you perform a few low-value sale transactions with each of the payment methods you plan to accept, including PayPal.
You can test cases where the information in a PayPal account is bad in the same way you would test a bad credit card: use one of the fake invalid nonces from our Testing and Go-Live page. If your code is handling those cases correctly, you can be confident that it will be able to handle a PayPal account with bad information as well.
I have some trouble understanding what's wrong with my sandbox accounts when I try to use Paypal Adaptive Payments. After hours of fighting, I guess it's time for me to ask for some help.
The problem is quite simple. When I use the credentials I generated in the Sandbox Test Accounts page of my account, our system is returning an error "Account not found. Unilateral receiver not allowed in chained payment is restricted". When I'm using the test credentials provided by the company that developed the escrow module we are using, it's working. As we did this test for exactly the same request (just API credentials are changing), my guess at this point is that there is something wrong with my credentials.
My Paypal account is verified and is a business account (not sure if relevant as I'm using the sandbox right now). The sandbox account I'm using is also verified and a business account. Do I maybe have to do something for Sandbox API accounts to work with the adaptive payments?
Regards
I have what seems to be an uncommon situation. I need to accept payments on my website and send them to various merchants that do their business though my app.
So the payment flow is:
Payer -> My App -> My Customer
This flow seems to be exactly facilitated by paypal's adaptive payments api and while I have pored over all their integration guides, there doesn't seem to be any documentation for even simple email to account verification.
My question is, how can I verify that an email belongs to a verified paypal business account, or perform some other hand shake verification? Is there a way to do that, or even a good workaround? Thanks!
Found this API endpoint today:
https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/api/adaptive-accounts/GetVerifiedStatus_API_Operation/
It seems to do what I wanted, and it at least indirectly test account existence and definitely tests the verified status.
One caveat that I would add for posterity is that in sandbox mode, you may only test against sandbox accounts that you have created for your app.
I can't understand Hosted Checkout. I think this is because I can't let go of Payflow Link. So I'm going to reduce this to what I want to do and if somebody could tell me if this is possible with Hosted Checkout I would greatly appreciate it.
With PayflowLink I was able to collect some information (Name, Address, Email, etc) + some app specific information that was used to calculate an AMOUNT and send it off to payflow.paypal.com and the user could happily check out before being returned to my website.
With Hosted Checkout the documentation seems to imply that I now collect the credit card info and grab a Secure Token to submit it to payflow.
You'll say why not use Paypal Payment Standard but the user has their own Merchant Account.
Am I missing something?
If you're using a 3rd party merchant other than PayPal you would actually still use PayFlow Link (or Pro) the same way you did before. Payments Advanced (hosted PayPal) is only for when you're using PayPal as the merchant account.
Yes you can.
The documentation makes no reference to this use case but you can.
It appears you can even continue to use the legacy PayflowLink parameters (again not documented).
The real kicker is the confusing error message regarding "Express Checkout" generated by the lack of the Sandbox account when trying to run a test form submission.
For those who follow me... you have to have the sandbox account if you are in test. You enter your sandbox email about halfway down the Hosted Checkout Setup form