If you are a marketplace, follow the PayPal setup instructions for marketplaces.
When setting up PayPal, you normally receive an activation link by email. If you do not receive this email or if the activation link does not work, you need to:
- Retrieve your test or live PayPal Merchant ID (also known as Payer ID).
- Manually give Adyen permission to process transactions on your business sandbox account (for test) or your live business account.
The instructions on this page describe the full manual process from start to finish. If you already created the various PayPal accounts, skip the steps to create those accounts.
To enable accepting online PayPal payments, you need to:
- Create PayPal developer and sandbox accounts.
- Give Adyen access to your PayPal sandbox business account.
- Get your PayPal Merchant ID.
- Set up PayPal in your Customer Area.
- When you go live: set up a live PayPal business account, give Adyen access to that account, get your live Merchant ID, and send our Support Team a screenshot of the permissions you have activated as well as the Merchant ID you intend to go live with.
Create developer and sandbox accounts
To test your integration, you need to get a PayPal developer account and create PayPal personal and business sandbox accounts under your developer account.
To be able to see your test payments later, it is important that you create your sandbox accounts under your PayPal developer account.
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Create a PayPal developer account, if you do not already have one.
This account gives access to the developer dashboard where you can create and manage business and personal sandbox accounts. -
Under your developer account, create a PayPal business sandbox account.
This account, ending in @business.example.com for example, lets you simulate receiving payments as a merchant when testing payments. -
Under your developer account, create a PayPal personal sandbox account.
This account, ending in @personal.example.com for example, lets you simulate making payments as a shopper when testing payments.
Give Adyen access to your PayPal account
To connect your PayPal account to your Adyen integration, you need to grant third-party permissions to Adyen in your PayPal business account. To do that:
Get your PayPal Merchant ID
When you add PayPal as a payment method in your Customer Area, you need to provide your PayPal Merchant ID. This Merchant ID is generated when you create your sandbox and live PayPal business accounts, and consists of 13 randomly generated alphanumeric characters.
Add PayPal to your Customer Area
When you add PayPal to your test or live Customer Area, you need to provide some details specifically for PayPal.
Before you go live
For live operations, you need to set up a live PayPal business account and repeat some of the steps that you did for your test environment.
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Create a live PayPal business account:
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Go to the PayPal website, select Sign Up, and follow the instructions.
Do not use a personal email address for your live PayPal business account. We strongly recommend that you use a generic company email address. This is to prevent having to configure a new account for your business in the future, should the personal email address no longer be in use for any reason. The email address for your live PayPal business account will also be shown on the payment receipt the shopper receives from PayPal.
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Activate your business account.
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