Documentation PayPal Environment

PayPal environment setup

  1. Login with your PayPal Account on developer.paypal.com
  2. Go to “Apps & Credentials” or to developer.paypal.com/dashboard/applications/sandbox
  3. A “Default application” is already created. Copy the “Client ID” and the “Secret” and add them to the ecommerce PayPal options of your “Contest Gallery” plugin and “Save options”.
  4. Your are ready to go. Use “Sandbox” “Client ID” and “Secret” to make test purchases.
    Please read the “Recommendations” below.

Recommendations

Remove the option to “Continue without a PayPal Account”

It is recommended to disable the option “Continue without a PayPal account”. If customer use this option the possibility of “pending” payment processing is high. Change “PayPal account optional” to “Off”:

Direct links to find “PayPal account optional”:
Live: …paypal.com/…customerprofileweb…
Sandbox: …sandbox.paypal.com/…customerprofileweb…

Testing credit cards

PayPal offers to pay via credit card. You can do test purchases in sandbox (test environment) using test credit card numbers PayPal offers: …developer.paypal.com/tools/sandbox/card-testing…