Set up a live PayPal account
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Set up a live PayPal account

If you haven’t already, go to https://www.paypal.com, click “Sign Up” (top right), choose “Business” and follow the instructions. PayPal will notify you when your account is verified and ready to receive payments.

Give Pay360 access to process on your behalf

You need to enable Pay360 as a third-party provider with limited access to your account so that we can process payments through it.

  1. Log in to your PayPal account at https://www.paypal.com
  2. Under the user menu (top right), choose Account settings
  3. On the “Account access” page, click Update next to the API Access option
  4. On the “Your payment API credentials” page, under “PayPal API → Pre-built payment solution”, click Grant API permission
  5. On the “Add New Third Party Permissions” page, enter opspaypalaccount_api1.paypoint.net as the username and click Lookup
  6. On the next page, select the following permissions:
    • Use PayPal Express Checkout to process payments
    • Issue a refund for a specific transaction
    • Authorise and capture your PayPal transactions
    • Obtain information about a single transaction

    then click Add.

  7. The “Manage Third Party Access” page should confirm the permissions have been granted

In the future, if you want to revoke Pay360 access or we ask you to grant additional permissions, you can return here to edit our access.

If you see an error prompting you to “Enter a valid API username”, make sure you’re using the API username for live processing, which is opspaypalaccount_api1.paypoint.net. This is different from one you may have set up on a test account in the PayPal sandbox.

PayPal make periodic changes to their web site; the pages and user interface elements you see when logged in may differ from those described above. If this applies to you, and you’re having trouble working out what the corresponding steps are, you will need to contact PayPal for support.

Turn off Instant Payment Review

The Pay360 integration to PayPal does not support the receipt of Instant Payment Notifications. PayPal sends these messages when a transaction is processed and allocated a Pending status instead of an Approval or Decline. By disabling the Instant Payment Review feature you will only see Approved or Declined PayPal transactions.

Contact PayPal for support with this as needed.

Tell us about your PayPal account

Once your account is ready, contact us so that we can enable PayPal on your Pay360 account. You’ll need to tell us the primary email address associated with the account, as well as the currencies that you can accept.