Setting up PayPal payment methods

Set up PayPal account.

There are 3 PayPal methods that a seller can offer in Silkfair. 1) - PayPal Email, 2) - PayPal Standard, 3) - PayPal ExpressCheckout

The following are the differences and requirements for each of the 3 options.
1) PayPal Email - a basic PayPal acct is needed.  All instructions for payment are issued by seller directly, and Silkfair system doesn't integrate with PayPal for payment.  This is a good option for sellers who wants to issue invoices and instructions directly to buyers.

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_email-payments-overview-outside&nav=2.0.2


2) PayPal Standard - a basic PayPal acct is needed.  When choosing this option, buyers are redirected from Silkfair to PayPal for payment.

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_wp-standard-overview-outside&nav=2.0.0

3) PayPal ExpressCheckout - a PayPal Business or Premier account is required.  This option gives more payment processing capabilities within the orders to sellers, allowing for capabilities such as capturing funds, refund, cancel.

With either option 2 or 3 buyers are redirected from Silkfair to PayPal for payment.  After payments are complete, the payment status are sent back to Silkfair and reflected within the purchase order.  Seller also have the capability to perform authorization, capture, void, refund using the payment panel within each sales order.

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_additional-payment-overview-outside


Please see PayPal for additional info :
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_profile-comparison


Setting up for PayPal Email :
Step 1 : Establish PayPal account
Step 2 : Log into Silkfair, and go to My Store / Profile
Step 3 : Under PayPal Solution, select "Email" and click on Save.
Step 4 : Under Payment Options, select PayPal and click on Save.  Now the option to select PayPal within each listing are available. You will need to send instructions to buyer whenever a purchase order is issued by buyer.


Setting up for PayPal Standard :
Step 1 : Establish PayPal account
Step 2 : Log into Silkfair, and go to My Store / Profile
Step 3 : Under PayPal Solution, select "Standard".  Under Email, enter your PayPal Email ID.  DON'T Select "Sandbox", so, leave the "Sandbox" disabled.  
Step 4 : Under Payment Options, select PayPal and click on Save.

Now the option to select PayPal within each listing are available. You will need to send instructions to buyer whenever a purchase order is issued by buyer.
Special Note for PayPal Standard Only :
If you have shipping calculations set in PayPal Standard, you have the choice to either use the Shipping Charge from what is defined in your Silkfair listing, or use shipping charges defined in your PayPal Standard account.

To enable transaction-based override (to use shipping charges as defined in Silkfair listing):

1. Log in to your account at https://www.paypal.com.
2. Go to My Account > Profile > Shipping calculations (in the Selling Preferences column)
3. Select the Shipping Method and click Edit
4. Select Yes for "Use the shipping fee in the transaction instead of my calculator's settings" and press Save Changes.
5. Repleat 3-4 for all Domestic and International Shipping Methods

To disable transaction-based override and use shipping charges defined in PayPal Standard Account :

1. Log in to your account at https://www.paypal.com.
2. Go to My Account > Profile > Shipping calculations (in the Selling Preferences column)
3. Select the Shipping Method and click Edit
4. Select No for "Use the shipping fee in the transaction instead of my calculator's settings" and press Save Changes.
5. Repleat 3-4 for all Domestic and International Shipping Methods

Note that if you have not set up any Shipping Calculations in PayPal, the default is to override shipping methods per transaction (you should not need to change anything).

To setup Instant Payment Notification to receive payment status in your order :
1. - In Paypal, go to My Account / Profile.  Select Instant Payment Notification Preferences under Selling Preferences.
2 - Add this notification URL : http://www.silkfair.com/callback/paypal_ipn



Setting up for PayPal ExpressCheckout :
(Step 1 - 7 are to be performed on paypal site, and steps 8 - 10 are to be performed on silkfair site)

Step 1 : Establish PayPal Business or Premier account
Step 2 : Log into Paypal - https://www.paypal.com/ using your PayPal Business or Premier account ID
Step 3 - Click on My Account / Profile / API Access
Step 4 - Click on View or Change API Permissions
Step 5 - Click on Add New Permissions
Step 6 - For the field "Enter an API Partner Username :" , please enter "paypal88_api1.silkfair.com" (don't type in the quotation marks).
Step 7 - Under Select your API Access Level : make sure there is a checkbox marked/selected for Express_Checkout, and leave the other checkbox unmarked/unselected.  Click on Submit to save.


Step 8 : Log into Silkfair, and go to My Store / Profile
Step 9 : Under PayPal Solution, select "ExpressCheckout".  Under Email, enter your PayPal Email ID.  DON'T Select "Sandbox", so, leave the "Sandbox" disabled.  
Click Save.
Step 10 : Under Payment Options, select PayPal and click on Save.  Now the option to select PayPal within each listing are available. You will need to send instructions to buyer whenever a purchase order is issued by buyer.


To setup Instant Payment Notification to receive payment status in your order :
1. - In Paypal, go to My Account / Profile.  Select Instant Payment Notification Preferences under Selling Preferences.
2 - Add this notification URL : http://www.silkfair.com/callback/paypal_ipn



Special Note for PayPal ExpressCheckout only : Please note that any shipping calculator defined in your PayPal ExpressCheckout will be over-ridden by the shipping charges defined in your Silkfair listing and transaction.


The selection of PayPal won't appear on the front page of your Store, only on each item listing when you select PayPal in Item listing too.  So, basically, you need to set PayPal setting in My Store Profile, then select PayPal as a Payment Option in My Store Profile and then in each existing listing, select PayPal.  PayPal will then be selected by default for any new listings.  To update any existing listings, just go into each item listing after the PayPal configurations are set, and click on Payment Options to select PayPal.

So... what is this "sandbox" setting that's been left disabled?  If you have established a PayPal sandbox account, then you can substitute with that account ID in your PayPal setting in your Store Profile in Silkfair, and enable "Sandbox" setting, and test against PayPal sandbox.  Please note that the API permission will then need to change within the PayPal sandbox from "paypal88_api1.silkfair.com" to "paypal_api1.silkfair.com".

NOTE: Paypal88_api1.silkfair.com is for your real activated store and that paypal_api1.silkfair.com is the code for testing in the sandbox mode.


NOTE - added July 15, 2008 : Due to a number of real orders made under Sandbox, we're disabling the sandbox testing feature.  Any sandbox-enabled gateways for store accounts will be reverted to real gateways (sandbox-disabled).  All sellers should check the pay options in Store profile and listings.  Any previously sandbox-enabled pay options will need to be re-verified and re-enabled for pay option.