How to Set Up PayPal Payment Method in Magento

• Begin by choosing a PayPal merchant account. PayPal offers four types of plans for your business, namely,
  • PayPal Payments Advanced
  • PayPal Payments Pro
  • PayPal Payments Standard
  • PayPal PLUS — includes PayPal Wallet, credit card, direct debit, and an account purchase, which is available for all website customers, regardless of whether they have a PayPal account or not. PayPal PLUS is available only to merchants from Germany and Latin America.
• The next step is to log into your Magento account.
• Set up PayPal as a payment method through the following steps.
  • Find ‘Stores’ and click on ‘Configuration’ as shown in the visual below.

  

  • Under the ‘Sales’ menu, select ‘Payment Methods’ as shown in the visual below.

  

  • Navigate to ‘Recommended Solutions’ and ‘Other PayPal Solutions’ as shown in the image below.

  

  • Next, you need to configure your PayPal in the Magento backend.
    • Log in to the admin panel and navigate to the ‘Store’. Click on ‘Settings’, then ‘Configuration’, choose ‘Sales’, and then ‘Payment Methods’.
    • Set up a merchant’s location — the country where your store is located.

  

• Next expand the ‘PayPal All-In-One Payment Solution’, and choose the plan you opted for. Click on the ‘Configure’ button adjoining it, like in the image below.



• You can view the ‘Required PayPal Settings’ as below



• Click on ‘Required PayPal Settings’ to open up the screen below. Fill out the sections highlighted by the red box.



• Test how it works before enabling the feature by setting the ‘Test Mode’ to ‘Yes’.



After you have checked the ‘Test Mode’, change the option to ‘No’

• Next, set the ‘Use Proxy’ option to ‘Yes’ if you plan to run it by connecting with the PayPal server. Then configure your IP address for the Proxy Host and port number for the Proxy Port.

  If you are using Magento 2 PayPal Payments Pro, the process will be ‘Basic Settings’, and ‘PayPal Payments Pro’.



• Choose a ‘Credit’ or ‘Debit’ card in the ‘Title’ section. The ‘Sort Order’ section allows users to set the order of the payment method when buyers go to the checkout page.
• You can choose either ‘Authorization’ or ‘Sale’ ‘Payment Action’ to confirm it through the backend or complete it automatically by transferring money from customers directly to your account.

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• ‘Payment Applicable Form’ allows users to choose either;
  • ‘All Allowed Countries’, which means you accept payments from all previously configured countries, or
  • ‘Specific Countries’, in this case, you need to specify countries from which you accept payments.
• The ‘Debug Mode’ should be set to ‘Yes’ if you plan to gather the payment data into the log file (payments_payflow_advanced.log).
• Activate the ‘Enable SSL verification’ if you need to launch host authenticity verification.
• ‘Require CVV Entry’ should be set to ‘Yes’ should you want to ask your customers to type in the three-digit code on their debit card.