Administrators - PayPal Setup Requirements
This article provides 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.
- For each processing account, the Account Merchant/Vendor ID must be unique.
- You may have to try several times to find an available ID.
- 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 there isn't a unique User ID, the Account User ID defaults to the Vendor ID.
- Account Password is the secret code required to access the processing account.
- To create a random, secure password automatically, click Generate New.
- PayPal Manager URL is a 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.
- PayPal Manager URL is useful for reconciling bank statements and tracking down discrepancies.
- You should 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, each 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.
- 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, or to group payments by the Event Code.
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