PayPal

Features

• Express checkout: Payments through Paypal account. Any payment methods added to the users Paypal account can be used to make payments.
• Multi.market support: multiple PayPal accounts in same Litium Studio installation
• More information: www.paypal.com.
• Supports payment through Litium as a headless checkout

Add-on for using PayPal as payment provider in your e-commerce solution.

Installation

Read the system requirements for development environment before installing

Upgrading

1. Back-up the Litium.Studio.AddOns.PayPal.dll.config file. This may be in your wwwroot or wwwroot\bin folder.
2. Install using instructions below.
3. After installing, fill the configuration information from the backed-up file in step-1

Install

1. Open Visual Studio and your solution
2. Open Package Manager Console that is found in Tools > NuGet Package Manager menu. If multiple projects exists in the solution ensure that the web application project is selected as Default project in Package Manager Console.
3. Install nuget-packages with the command in Package Manager Console

   Install-Package Litium.Studio.AddOns.PayPal
   Install-Package Litium.Studio.AddOns.PayPal.UI

4. Configure the Litium.Studio.AddOns.PayPal.dll.config file. If you are upgrading, makesure this file is located in the web folder (same level as the web.config), and not in web\bin folder.
5. Download and copy the log4net dll from this Link. This is not shipped as part of installation because of a historical error log4net has in nuget packaging.

Configure PayPal

Before you begin, contact Paypal at https://www.paypal.com/se and obtain the test account information.

When using paypal for development and testing, keep in mind you are working with three different account types.

1. Your developer account accessed from developer.paypal.com. You must have your "real" e-mail account to login to here.
2. After login there, you will create two more accounts, one is called the business account, to represent your merchant site, and another to simulate an end customer. Both contains "fake" email accounts.

Configure Paypal.dll.config

To configure paypal, you should edit the file Litium.Studio.AddOns.PayPal.dll.config in your web directory. Follow the instructions at the begining of the file.
 

Paypal API credentials contain a username, password and a shared scret. 

<add key="apiUserName" value =""/>
<add key="apiPassword" value=""/>
<add key="apiSignature" value="" />
You can generate them or change them from after login into paypal site. https://developer.paypal.com.

Testing Paypal Provider

To test paypal, you need to create test accounts after login into developer.paypal.com.