Log into your account at http://www.developer.paypal.com
Click “Applications” in the top navigation bar
Click the “Create App” button to the right of “My REST apps”
Enter an app name, and click “Create app”
If you’d like to test your online module using the sandbox test accounts before going live, send us the contents of the “Client ID” and “Secret” boxes. The “Test account” is your main sandbox account, this will be created with the same password as your main account, and can be used to log into the sandbox in order to add currencies, and see the status of incoming transactions, etc.
Click the “Show” text nest to “Live credentials”
Send us the contents of the “Client ID” and “Secret” boxes.
In order to test the module thoroughly using the sandbox, you’ll need to create a second sandbox account to make purchases from. To do this, click “Sandbox accounts” in the left navigation menu.
Click the “Create Account” button to the right of “Sandbox test accounts”
Fill in the relevant details – set the Account type to Personal, give a positive balance and a credit card, and click “Create Account”
When making payments, you can now log into this test account in order to draw funds from it. If you wish to test credit card transactions without a PayPal account, you can click the email address of the account you’ve just created to expand it, then click the “Profile” link.
Clicking the “Funding” tab will give you a credit card number you can use to test credit card payments without logging into a Paypal account.
In order to accept payments in any currency other than USD, you must configure your PayPal account to hold a balance in that currency, otherwise payments will fail.
To set the currency on your live PayPal account:
Log into your account at http://www.paypal.com
Click “Merchant Services” in the top navigation bar
Click “Manage Money” in the navigation links on the right
Click “Add or Edit” in the “Manage Currencies” section
In the dropdown box, select the currency you wish to add, and click “Add Currency”
To set the currency on your Sandbox account:
Log in at http://www.sandbox.paypal.com using your main sandbox account
If your page has an “Options” link as below:
Click “Options” to the right to your PayPal balance
Click “Manage currency” in the dropdown menu
In the dropdown box, select the currency you wish to add, and click “Add Currency”
Otherwise:
Hover over the “Profile” option and select “My Money”
On the “Paypal balance” line, click “More” and then “Currencies”