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PayPal

Technical details about how we implement PayPal and how to get started developing with it.

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. 2.
    Use the generated merchant credentials to set the following variables in API's .env:
PAYPAL_ENVIRONMENT=sandbox
PAYPAL_APP_ID=APP-________
PAYPAL_CLIENT_ID=________________________
PAYPAL_CLIENT_SECRET=________________________
And you're ready to go. Use the credentials generated in step 3. to authenticate when ordering.

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