Generating PayPal NVP Credentials
Last updated
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PayPal has recently made some changes and do not allow you to get NVP credentials for personal accounts anymore. One option is to upgrade to a business account, create credentials and call PayPal to downgrade. Any credentials you create, will continue to work.
Please follow these steps:
Log in to .
Navigate to the following:
Account Settings
Account Access
Click the Update link from the API Access section.
Scroll down to the Custom checkout experience section.
Click the Manage API credentials link under NVP/SOAP API integration (Classic) option:
If you haven’t set this up before, PayPal will prompt you to request the API Credentials. Choose the Request API signature from the list of options.
Click the Agree and Submit button.
Click the Show link for each key to copy them.
Finally, click the Done button.
