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Connect PayPal to your store

PayPal allows customers to make payments using a variety of methods including: PayPal balance, bank accounts, debit or credit cards, etc. As a ShopBase merchant, you can use PayPal as a payment provider for customer checkout and processing for your online store. If you already have a PayPal Business Account, kindly follow this tutorial to successfully connect it to your ShopBase store.

In this article



A. Set up PayPal Business and Sandbox Account
B. Activate PayPal as your payment method
Use Client ID and Secret Key
Sign in/sign up with PayPal
C. Deactivate your PayPal account

A. Set up PayPal Business and Sandbox Account



If you already have these 2 accounts, kindly skip to section B.

If you do not have a PayPal Business account, you can sign up for a new one here.
After that, you will need to create a Sandbox account here or follow the instructions in this video.

B. Activate PayPal as your payment method



There are 2 ways for you to connect PayPal to your store:

Use Client ID and Secret Key
Sign in/sign up with PayPal

Use Client ID and Secret Key


You will need to get the Client ID and Secret Key on your PayPal account for later steps.

Log in to PayPal Developer dashboard with your Business Account.

Select Live mode. However, if you want to use PayPal on the test mode only, you can select Sandbox and use Sandbox API credentials instead.

Live mode
Sandbox mode
Click on the Apps & Credentials tab.


Select your app to get your Client ID and Secret Key.


If you haven't already created an app, click Create App. In App Name, enter a preferred name for the app. Then, click Create App.


In the application detail page, you will see your Client ID, and click Show to get your Secret Key. Copy these Client ID and Secret Key to save them for later steps in ShopBase admin.


From your ShopBase admin, go to Settings > Payment provider > PayPal and click Activate with API key.


In the new page, paste your Client ID and Secret Key. Then, click Add account.


If you only want to use PayPal in test mode, please enable Test mode and use information of your Sandbox account.


Click Activate.

Sign in/sign up with PayPal


From your ShopBase admin, go to Settings > Payment providers.


In PayPal section, click Sign in/sign up with PayPal.


In PayPal page, click Sign in/sign up with PayPal.


On PayPal Business account creation page, you can enter your email in the field Email and select the country where your business is registered. Click Next to continue. Then, follow PayPal instructions to sign in/sign up with PayPal.


Return to the ShopBase store's Payment providers admin site, you can see your PayPal account has already been connected to the store successfully.



C. Deactivate your PayPal account



After connecting your PayPal account to the store, you can deactivate it anytime in 2 ways and still be able to re-activate it later.

In the Payment providers dashboard > Toggle the active PayPal account to deactivate.


Or in the PayPal management dashboard, click Deactivate.


The customer’s shipping address and phone number will be prefilled with the address in their PayPal account. Customers can easily click the Change button to modify the information.



Overview of Payment

Updated on: 14/12/2023

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