Working with Paypal

Setting Up PayPal for your Magento Store

Magento allows you to easily use a variety of payment gateways and methods in your online store. Many are already integrated into Magento and you can enable and configure them right from the Magento Admin Panel--no coding required! Starting with Magento CEv1.4.1.1 and EEv1.9, PayPal was further integrated into the Magento platform. 

To configure PayPal for your Magento store:

1. In the Merchant Account panel, you can set the following values:
   • Merchant Country - Select the merchant's country, i.e. the country to which the Merchant's PayPal account is associated. The countries available for selection are listed according to the PayPal Worldwide reference. If the merchant country is not specified, its value is taken from Default Country field located under System→Configuration→General tab→Countries Options panel. The payment method selections available below will be changed to reflect only those that are valid for this country.
   • Email Associated with PayPal Merchant Account - Enter the email address that was used when registering a merchant account with PayPal. If not yet registered with PayPal, simply enter your email address. If the Email Associated with PayPal Merchant Account field is empty, the Website Payments Standard payment method will be unavailable and the Express Checkout method is only available if the API credentials are specified. Instant Payment Notifications (IPNs) from PayPal are not available if the email address for sending IPNs and the one specified in the Merchant Account configuration are different.
2. In the Select a PayPal Solution panel, select which of the following PayPal payment methods you'd like to have available in your store:
   • Express Checkout
   • Website Payments Standard
   • Website Payments Pro
   • Website Payments Pro Payflow Edition (includes its own Express Checkout)
   • Payflow Pro Gateway
   • Express Checkout with Payflow Pro Gateway
3. Depending on the payment method(s) you've selected, the corresponding payment method configuration panel will becomes available below. Each of these is described in more detail in the following sections. Enter the required information for each of your selected PayPal payment method(s).
4. After you've entered the required configuration information, click the [Save Config] button in the upper right.

The following PayPal payment methods require that your customers also have customer accounts in PayPal:

• Express Checkout
• Website Payments Standard
• Express Checkout for Payflow Pro

These PayPal payment methods do not require your customers to have a PayPal account and allow them to enter their credit card information directly on your website during the checkout process:

• Website Payments Pro
• Website Payments Pro Payflow Edition
• Payflow Pro Gateway

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