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# PayPal account setup

[View source](/paypal-hpp/paypal-account-setup.md)

**Hosted Payment Pages are no longer available**\
This page is for the Hosted Payment Pages (HPP) integration, which has reached end-of-life. We are no longer processing transactions though HPP.

If you have any questions, contact our [Support Team](https://ca-test.adyen.com/ca/ca/contactUs/support.shtml?form=other).

PayPal's online documentation provides clear descriptions and explanations about how to carry out these tasks:

* [Permissions](https://developer.paypal.com/docs/archive/permissions-service)
* [Permissions Service Getting Started Guide](https://developer.paypal.com/docs/archive/permissions-service/gs-PermissionsService/)
* [Granting Third-Party Permissions](https://developer.paypal.com/docs/archive/permissions-service/ht-permissions-invoice/)

## Grant API permission

Grant API permissions to the Adyen API in your live PayPal account.

* Credit payments to your PayPal account.
* Provide access to extra reporting features.

To set up API permission, do the following:

1. Log in to PayPal with your PayPal Business account.

   * **Live**: <https://www.paypal.com/signin>
   * **Test**: <https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/signin>

2. Follow [PayPal's instructions](https://developer.paypal.com/docs/admin/third-party/):\
   Under **Third Party Permission Username**, enter:

   * **Live**: Enter `paypal_api2.adyen.com`

   Under **Permissions**, select the following boxes:

   * **Use Express Checkout to process payments**.
   * **Issue a refund for a specific transaction**.
   * **Process your shopper's credit or debit card payments**.
   * **Authorize and capture your PayPal transactions**.
   * **Obtain information about a single transaction**.
   * **Obtain authorization for pre-approved payments and initiate pre-approved transactions**.
   * **Generate consolidated reports for all accounts**. (if available in your region)
   * **Use Express Checkout to process mobile payments**. (if you plan on supporting mobile payments)

After completing this task, [add PayPal in your Customer Area](/payment-methods/add-payment-methods) and provide the PayPal account email address that you want to use for your PayPal payment integration.

### Add recurring payment management

Follow the steps described in the [third-party API permission setup](#grant-api-permission) section.

In the **Available Permission** list, select the following checkboxes:

* *Charge an existing customer based on a prior transaction.*
* *Create and manage Recurring Payments.*

After enabling recurring payments in your PayPal account, you can start executing recurring transactions programmatically through the Adyen payments platform by passing the `recurringDetailReference` parameter for each subsequent [recurring transaction via the API](/online-payments/classic-integrations/classic-api-integration/tokenization).

You can configure your PayPal account to remember how often a shopper should be charged (frequency options for recurring payments), without making API calls to the merchant each time it needs to check the value. For further details, refer to PayPal's [Reference Transactions](https://developer.paypal.com/docs/paypal-payments-pro/integration-guide/reference-transactions/) document. However, we do not recommend Adyen merchants to enable this feature because recurring transactions initiated by PayPal independent of the Adyen payments platform are not available in the [Customer Area](https://ca-test.adyen.com/).