How To: Set up Website Payments Pro in CS-Cart

Important

The PayPal Payments Advanced add-on was renamed to Website Payments Pro in CS-Cart version 4.10.4.

This is a legacy solution by PayPal. It remains in CS-Cart documentation for the benefit of our existing clients. See this article for current, up-to-date PayPal solutions integrated with CS-Cart.

Note

Before you begin, make sure that the PayPal payments add-on is active and configured.

  1. In the Administration panel, go to Administration → Payment methods.
  2. Сlick the + button (Add payment method) in the top right corner of the page.
  3. Fill in the form:
    • Select Website Payments Pro in the Processor drop-down list.
    • Enter the Display name—the name of the payment method that will appear to your customers at checkout.
    • Specify other settings and upload an icon for the payment method, if necessary.
Creating a new Website Payments Pro payment method.

  1. Switch to the Configure tab and specify the settings of Website Payments Pro:

    • Select the Currency of your PayPal account.

      This currency must exist in your store and, ideally, it should be your primary currency. That is because prices are always converted to PayPal currency according to the rates you specified, before being sent to PayPal.

    • Choose the layout, colors, and header image of the payment page.

  2. Make sure to fill in the Technical details:

    • Merchant login
    • API user
    • API partner
    • API password

    Note

    You can find this data in your Website Payments Pro account.

  3. Set Test/Live mode to Live.

    You can use the Test mode to see how the payment method works. But this mode doesn’t work with live PayPal accounts. For testing you’ll need to use test accounts from PayPal Sandbox.

  4. Click the Create button.

Configuring Website Payments Pro settings.