PayPal

Developing / testing sandbox
Buyer account
This is the account you'll use to make the (fake) payment. Go to https://developer.paypal.com/developer/accounts/create, login with your personnal PayPal account then create a test account.
Merchant account
1.Create an app here: https://developer.paypal.com/developer/applications/create​
2.Use the generated merchant credentials to set the following variables in API's .env:
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PAYPAL_ENVIRONMENT=sandbox
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PAYPAL_APP_ID=APP-________
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3. Encrypt your client secret, from the API repository:
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npm run script scripts/encrypt.js PAYPAL_CLIENT_SECRET
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4. Manually create a ConnectedAccount with your clientId and your encrypted clientSecret:
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INSERT INTO "ConnectedAccounts" ("service", "clientId", "token", "CollectiveId")
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VALUES (E'paypal', clientId, clientSecret, hostCollectiveId);
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5. Create buyer's credentials on https://developer.paypal.com/developer/accounts/create​
And you're ready to go. Use the credentials generated in step 2. to authenticate when ordering.
Known issues
The button may require multiple clicks to trigger on dev or staging. It should not affect production (see https://github.com/paypal/paypal-checkout/issues/471)

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Developing / testing sandbox

Buyer account

Merchant account

Known issues