API Credentials Help Text
Obtain API Credentials from a Sandbox Test Account
- Go to https://developer.paypal.com/
- Login to your PayPal’s Sandbox Test environment account. (or create an account if you don’t have one.)
- Select Test Accounts.
- Click the Create Test Accounts link.
- Select Test Accounts.
- Choose Seller for the Account Type.
- Change the password to something you can remember and make a note of it.
Note: The Login Email is a pseudo-randomized address, which is based on the login email address you used to create your sandbox account. Credit card and bank account numbers are also generated randomly.
- Click Create Accounts when you are finished modifying the account.
- From the Test Accounts list, select the account you created and click Enter Sandbox.
- Log into the account.
- Click My Account.
- Click Profile.
- Under Account Information, click API Access.
- Click Request API Credentials.
- Click API Signature.
- Click the Agree checkbox.
- Click Submit.
- Make a note or copy/paste these fields into the PayPal Shopping Cart Integration Wizard Generate Code form:
API username
API password
signature
You can always retrieve these credendials from the Sandbox Test Environment by selecting API Credentials to view the API credentials you have created for test accounts.