You can opt to have WooCommerce send shipping details to PayPal to create shipping labels instead of billing. Under Advanced Options, complete fields as needed. These logs are available at WooCommerce > System Status > Logs and then select the PayPal log from the dropdown.

You may need to first create a wc-logs folder and set permissions to make it writable.

Debug logs may also be turned on, which can be useful during development.

To use Sandbox mode, you need a separate sandbox account via PayPal Sandbox.

With sandbox enabled, no payment/money is taken. Tick the Enable PayPal Sandbox checkbox if you wish to test the checkout process during your store’s development.Must match the same email address on your PayPal Business account. Enter your email address in the PayPal Email field, which is the most important thing to configure before taking payments. Enter a Title and Description shown to customers in checkout.Ĥ. Tick the Enable PayPal Standard if you’re ready to go live.ģ. Go to: WooCommerce > Settings > Checkout > PayPal.Ģ.Go to and sign up for a PayPal Business account or convert an existing Personal account to Business. Your system status page in WooCommerce tells you if there are issues connecting. What do you need to do? Ensure that your host supports HTTPS connections through CURL/fsockopen using TLS 1.2 or newer certificates. Here is the error: Exception Details: : The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel.PayPal Standard in WooCommerce core uses Instant Payment Notification (IPN) and has been updated with PayPal’s announcement to https for added security. So the next thing I tried was accessing my application through an open port and a publicly accessible IP address, but the same error occurs on the call to SetExpressCheckout. I did my research and discovered that since I'm testing in Localhost, it may affect Paypal's ability to communicate with the application. The method I'm calling is SetExpressCheckout with all the appropriate variables. I have had very little luck trying to get the Paypal API to co-operate. This application is running on ASP.NET with C#. I'm trying to develop a simple application that will enable users to purchase services off a website through the Paypal API.

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