PayPal Checkout Environment Setup

Prerequisites for Development/Staging Environments

To use the BroadleafCommerce PayPal payment functionality in a test environment, you must establish sandbox accounts with PayPal.

Property Configurations

You will need to provide the following system properties to configure your PayPal API account details:

#PayPal properties
gateway.paypal.checkout.api.clientId=?
gateway.paypal.checkout.api.secret=?
gateway.paypal.checkout.api.description=? (e.g. My Test Store)
# Options are "sandbox" or "production"
gateway.paypal.checkout.api.environment=?
gateway.paypal.checkout.api.payment.url=? (e.g. /paypal-checkout/create-order)
gateway.paypal.checkout.api.authorize.url=? (e.g. /paypal-checkout/return)

Note: Broadleaf allows you to create unique property files per environment (e.g. common.properties, local.properties, development.properties, integrationdev.properties, integrationqa.properties, staging.properties, and production.properties). Alternatively, you can gather these properties from the BLC_SYSTEM_PROPERTY table in your database using the blSystemPropertiesService. See the java docs for more details.

Logging

You may wish to turn on logging to help debug requests being made to PayPal during development. Set the following in your logback file:

    <logger name="com.paypal.base.rest.PayPalResource" level="DEBUG"/>