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PayPal Production Configurations

To start accepting transactions on a production site, users must sign up for an actual Business Account. This can be done here: https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/merchant

System Property Updates

First, you'll need to update the following properties to ensure that you're making use of your PayPal Business Account:

  • gateway.paypal.expressCheckout.user
  • gateway.paypal.expressCheckout.password
  • gateway.paypal.expressCheckout.signature

Additionally, you must update the following properties to point to PayPal's production servers:

Note: We suggest that you make these changes in your production.properties or production-shared.properties files as to avoid using PayPal's production resources in any development or staging environments.