To set up CS-Cart with PayPal Website Payments Standard account:
- Log in your administrator panel and click on the Payment methods link in the ADMINISTRATION side box on the right.
- Under the Add new payment method(s) section enter PayPal into the Payment text input field and click on the Add new button.
NOTE: If there is no SSL certificate installed on the server, make sure that HTTP, not HTTPS is selected for the payment method in the Protocol field.
- Select PayPal in the Processor drop-down select box in the added payment method row and click on the Configure button below. The PayPal settings page will be open.
- Fill in the following fields:
- Account - your PayPal account
- Name of the item - the value of Pay for field, displayed on PayPal web page during the payment
- Currency - select your currency
- Test/Live mode - select Live. In order to use Test mode you need to get additional accounts at PayPal Sandbox and PayPal Developer Central.
- Order prefix - any prefix you want orders to have (optional field)
- Click on the Update button to save the changes.
NOTE: In order to use PayPal as a payment method on your site, there must be PHP's Curl support on your server (you are able to read more about it on the http://www.php.net/curl). Check whether there is PHP's CURL support installed on your server.
