Paypal - Website Payments Standard

If you have a PayPal business account, ASI can setup a payment method for transacting with that account.

Once the PayPal account is setup ASI need the following details to setup the payment gateway on our end.

Provide us with the following

1) Email Address of paypal business account
2) PDT Identity Token ( This is a great big long string of characters )

Instructions on getting PDT Identity Token

1) Log in to your PayPal account

2) Under the My Account tab, click the Profile sub tab

3) In the left hand side navigation box, click My selling tools

4) Under the Selling online section, click the Update link to the right of Website preferences

5) Under Auto Return for Website Payments, select the On option

6) In the Return URL textbox, enter your web site address

7) Under Payment Data Transfer (optional), select the On option

8) Scroll down and click the Save button

9) You will be returned to the My Profile page, with a green 'success' box at the top

10) Copy the string of characters within that box and email it to your project manager along with your the email address of the business account.

Steps for setting up Refunds

Further configuration is required if you would like to make live refunds from your website back to the user. Some configuration information is required by ASI to set this up. Follow the steps below to setup refunds.

1) Login to http://www.paypal.com/
Go to "My Account -> Profile"

2) Under "Account Information", click on: "API Access"

3) Click on: "Request API Credentials"

4) Under "Request API Credentials"
There should be a table with "Credential" and "Description" columns
Select "API Signature"
Check the box to agree to the terms and conditions
Click on the "Submit" button

5) Under "View or Remove API Signature"
Information similar to the following should appear:

Credential: API Signature
API Username: paypal_api1.url.com.au
API Password: TUHGFDHGFGHFGHFFH
Signature: GHGJGJHGKJGHGJHGJHGHGHGJHGJHJJJJJJ.-E
Request Date: 29 Mar. 2007 08:59:22 AEST

6) Send those three pieces of info to your project manager to setup the module