Generating PayPal REST credentials

PayPal has recently made some changes and do not allow you to get REST 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.

When generating REST credentials, Transaction Search permission is not granted by default, once you grant it, it may take several hours for that change to take effect. When testing the settings, if you get PERMISSION_DENIED error, make sure you have the Transaction Search permission checked and if you do, simply wait for the PayPal cache to recognize this change and try again in a few hours.

To obtain REST credentials follow these steps:

• Login to PayPal Developer Dashboard

• Navigate to My App & Credentials on the left nav bar

• Under the My apps & credentials heading make sure that “Live” tab is selected

• Under REST API apps, click “Create App” button

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• Give your app a name and click Create App

• On the next screen, your credentials will show. Copy the Client ID into the Client ID text box in Streams Manager and click on Show link to reveal the Secret. Copy the secret into the Client Secret text box in Streams Manager. Make sure no leading or trailing spaces are introduced while pasting

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• Scroll down to the bottom of the page and ensure that correct permissions are selected. Transaction Search needs to be checked!

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• Click Save to save changes.

• Click Test button to test the settings

Given that Transaction search permission is not granted by default, once you grant it, it may take several hours for that change to take effect. When testing the settings, if you get PERMISSION_DENIED error, make sure you have the Transaction Search permission checked and if you do, simply wait for the PayPal cache to recognize this change and try again in a few hours.