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

PayPal

Developing / testing sandbox

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.

Create an app here: https://developer.paypal.com/developer/applications/create
Use the generated merchant credentials to set the following variables in API's .env:

PAYPAL_ENVIRONMENT=sandbox
PAYPAL_APP_ID=APP-________

3. Encrypt your client secret, from the API repository:

npm run script scripts/encrypt.js PAYPAL_CLIENT_SECRET

4. Manually create a ConnectedAccount with your clientId and your encrypted clientSecret:

INSERT INTO "ConnectedAccounts" ("service", "clientId", "token", "CollectiveId")
VALUES (E'paypal', clientId, clientSecret, hostCollectiveId);

And you're ready to go. Use the credentials generated in step 2. to authenticate when ordering.

The button may require multiple clicks to trigger on dev or staging. It should not affect production (see https://github.com/paypal/paypal-checkout/issues/471)