To set up Paypal Payments in your Reactive website, follow these steps:
Navigate to Settings > Payment Methods.
Create a new payment method by clicking the Create button, then choose Paypal from the Provider drop-down menu.
Title: Choose a title for your method. This will be shown to your customers as the name of the payment method. For example, Pay your order by Card.
Click Save to confirm and create the new payment method.
After saving the method, you can further configure it with the following options:
Active. You can choose whether you want your payment gateway to be active or not. We advise you to keep your method inactive (unchecked) until you enter your API credentials.
Exempt from Local Pickup. Turn this option on if you want this payment method to be exempt from orders using local pickup.
In order to have access to the Client ID and Secret Key follow these steps:
- Open the following website https://developer.paypal.com and click on "Log into Dashboard".
- Login with your PayPal credentials and then click on "My Apps& Credentials" and then switch to "Live".
- Then click on Create an app.
You should now see the Client ID and an option (Show) below to see the Secret Key.
Description. Add a short description of your payment method. This will be shown to your customers as the description of the payment method. For example, Payments are processed by Paypal. We never store your card information.
Once your new payment method has been saved you will have to fill in the additional API Information and keys to start accepting payments.