Configuring PayPal as a payment method

In this article, you'll learn how to configure PayPal as a payment method for your Online Shop.

Opening a PayPal account

If you wish to use PayPal as a payment method in your e-guma Online Shop, you will need a PayPal business account. How to open a PayPal business account:

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Go to the  www.paypal.ch website. 

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Enter your e-mail address and click on Next.

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Follow the individual steps required by PayPal.

Configuring your PayPal account

Once you have configured your PayPal account, you must activate the link between your account and our Payment Service Provider Datatrans. This will give Datatrans permission to debit and credit your account. This is required to use PayPal in your Online Shop.

Please contact us as soon as you have finished setting up your PayPal account.

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To process PayPal as a payment method via Datatrans, please follow this link: https://pay.datatrans.com/upp/paypal/restpermissions/request

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Log in with your e-mail address and password:

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As soon as you have succesfully logged in, the following confirmation should appear:

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Click on "Go to your PayPal-Account" and navigate to the business information:

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Copy your PayPal-Merchant-ID and inform us as soon as you have successfully completed these steps. Please send us your PayPal-Merchant-ID and the e-mail address that you used to register for PayPal (we require this information for Datatrans). We will notify Datatrans promptly once your PayPal account has been configured successfully.

As soon as we have received confirmation of the activation from Datatrans, we can activate PayPal as an online payment method in your Online Shop.