PayPal

PayPal.com is a supported payment processor for the donation tool. It is used to process a donation payment to transfer funds from the donator to your community.

Setup PayPal account

To automatically process a transaction from a donator, you need to register a REST Api app in the PayPal developer portal. Do so by following these steps:

• Open the developer.paypal.com page in your internet browser
• Login by clicking the top right Login to dashboard link and use your PayPal login credentials
• You should see your dashboard with an overview of your apps and credentials
• In the REST Api apps section, click the Create App button
  • You can choose between an app on the sandbox partition of PayPal, in order to test out this tool before using it
  • In order to process donations of your donators, you need an app in the Live partition of PayPal (you can switch with the buttons under the My apps & credentials title)
• Open the apps overview page by clicking on the apps name
• Note down the Client ID and the Secret value, you'll need these values in the "Configuration"

Configure PayPal

The PayPal configuration in the config.yml all reside in the paypal key:

paypal:
  # The environment of PayPal which match to the credentials you configure in the next settings. If you use sandbox
  # credentials, use 'sandbox', if you use live credentials, use 'production'.
  # Allowed values: sandbox, production
  environment: sandbox
  # The access credentials of your PayPal application to process payments. You can either use the sandbox credentials
  # to test the application. In order to process real funds, you need to have a paypal business account and use
  # credentials of a live app.
  # You can create these in the PayPal developer portal: https://developer.paypal.com/developer/applications/
  clientId:
  clientSecret: