This article will provide instructions for administrators to configure a PayPal account within Certain.
PayPal Gateway Account Settings
- Account Merchant/Vendor ID is the unique identifier assigned by the online payment processor.
- Each processing account's Account Merchant/Vendor ID must be unique.
- You may have to try several times to find one that is available.
- Account Partner ID is used by PayPal to identify the partner company who set up the PayPal account.
- Account User ID is used by PayPal as a secondary level of security for the PayPal account.
- If you don't have a unique User ID, it will default to the Vendor ID.
- Account Password is the secret code required to access the processing account.
- Click Generate New to create a random, secure password automatically.
- PayPal Manager URL is the link to access the detailed transaction information for your account.
- PayPal stores information not available in Certain, such as the card issuing bank's authorization number and voice authorization information.
- It is useful for reconciling bank statements and tracking down discrepancies.
- You should also periodically (quarterly or annually, at least) change the password to your PayPal account, and then update that password in Certain.
- If you perform AVS on the transactions processed in your account, then each individual sale processed in Certain will record three transactions in PayPal: an Auth for $0.01, a Void of the $0.01 Auth, and a Sale for the full amount.
- In order to see only the actual Sale transactions, use the PayPal custom report generator to create reports that do not display these Auth and Void transactions.
- NOTE: Certain passes the Event Code and Registration Code with each transaction processed through PayPal.
- The Event Code is passed in the "Comment1" field.
- The Registration Code is passed in the "Comment2" field.
- Include these fields in your custom reports created in PayPal Manager in order to easily track payments and refunds to their original registration.
- Include these fields to group payments by the Event Code.