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Is PayPal Pro necessary if payment is offsite?

Posted: August 18, 2014 at 2:47 pm


Teresa Catford

August 18, 2014 at 2:47 pm

Will offsite payment gateway with paypal work with a regular business account? If the answer is no, can you explain why?

Also trying to find directions on how to set up EE with paypal. Is there documentation on this?

Thank you


Jonathan Wilson

August 18, 2014 at 2:58 pm

Hi Teresa,

A Paypal Payments Standard or Pro account is required, so for offsite you will need Paypal Payments Standard: https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/compare-business-products

Here are instructions for setting up Paypal in your EE settings: https://eventespresso.com/wiki/payment-settings/#PayPal

?I’ll be happy to answer anymore questions you might have.


Teresa Catford

August 18, 2014 at 3:49 pm

thank you so much for the help which I really do need. I just set up a sandbox account with paypal and all the test emails and then I clicked this:

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/lifecycle/sb_calls/

and I decided to ask you for help. What do I do from here inside my site – register for an event that I have set up? Are step by step directions/documentation with EE for this?


Lorenzo Orlando Caum

  • Support Staff

August 18, 2014 at 4:03 pm

Hi,

PayPal Pro is for accepting credit card payments on your site. This is a premium service with PayPal with a monthly fee of $30. An SSL certificate is also required (your web host can set this up for a fee).

PayPal Standard is an offsite payment gateway and does not have a monthly fee.

Setup instructions for both are available here:

https://eventespresso.com/wiki/payment-settings/#PayPal

https://eventespresso.com/wiki/payment-settings/#PayPalPro


Lorenzo

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