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How to setup WooCommerce PayPal Payments

This article describes how to get all the information required in order to setup PayPal payments through the first-party WooCommerce Gateway plugin.

Watch The Dot prefers the manual credential input method since we have encountered problems with the automatic method in the past.

We need to collect the following information:

  • Live Merchant ID
  • Live Email Address
  • Live Client ID
  • Live Secret Key

Quite confusingly, this information is found in 2 different locations.

Login to your Paypal account

  • Paypal Website

    • Merchant ID: Go to Account Settings

    Hover over your name in the top right, and click Account Settings

    Merchant ID: Go to Business Information

    Click on the business information page and your merchant ID should be visible on this copy. Copy and Paste this into a text file. (The image will be updated with an example with Merchant ID soon)

    Click Developer in the top bar

    Click Developer Dashboard on the "Go to Dashboard" Dropdown

    Click Live on the toggle and click Create App

    We need to create a set of live API keys. Sandbox keys will not be able to process real transactions.

    Name your App

    Give your live application an identifiable name. When setting this up, we tend to use WooCommerce.

    Live Email Address: Copy your PayPal Account email address

    Copy and Paste this into a text file.

    Client ID: Copy the whole key

    Copy and Paste this into a text file.

    Secret Key: Click Show and copy the key

    Copy and Paste this into a text file.

    Now you have all the information required to manually input the credentials for the PayPal Payment Gateway

    Article published 24th November 2022
    Last modified 24th November 2022

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