In order to use the PayPal's Payments Pro suite of products, you must
have a PayPal business account (free). If you do not have a PayPal Business account, choose from the appropriate sections below (either section I, II, or III) to obtain or upgrade to a free Business account. If you already have a business account you can skip down to Section "IV. Applying for the PayPal Payments Pro application". PayPal will review your application within 1 - 2 days.
Once you are approved for PayPal Payments Pro, you have to submit PayPal's Billing Agreement. The approval e-mail that PayPal sends you will include instructions for submitting the Billing Agreement. Submitting the Billing Agreement does not take any time to complete and, until you submit the Billing Agreement, only Express Checkout transactions will be allowed.
After you've applied for the PayPal Payments Pro service, you can skip down to "Section V. Grant permissions to ASecureCart". This is the section where you grant ASecureCart permission to make the authorization request for the order.
Lastly, your PayPal account can have multiple e-mail addresses associated with it but only one e-mail will be identified as the "primary" address. Make sure ASecureCart's "Payment Method" screen is set to use your primary PayPal e-mail address (i.e. - section "VI. Configure ASecureCart to use your PayPal Payments Pro settings"). If the e-mail address defined on the ASecureCart "Payment Methods" screen is not your primary PayPal e-mail address, PayPal will reject the transaction with a "permissions" error. ASecureCart does NOT send any e-mails to this address - it is only used to identify your PayPal account when submitting a transaction.
If you not sure which PayPal product suite is the best fit for your needs, call 877-455-1479 and a member of PayPal's Telesales and Merchant Integration team can assist you.
I. I do not have an existing PayPal account:
1. Go to
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_registration-run
2. Choose to create a Business account
3. Choose country and click on Continue
4. Business Account Sign Up:
a. Fill out your business information
b. Fill in the business owner contact information
c. Fill in your business owner address and click on Continue
d. Enter in your email address
e. Choose your security questions
f. Accept the user agreement and legal policy
g. Type in your security measure
h. Click on Sign Up
5. Confirm your address by adding a credit card to your funding source
6. Verify your email address by checking your email address and follow
instructions in the PayPal email address
7. Add a bank account to your funding source to be a Verified member. This
process may take several business days. Follow the instructions on the PayPal
site to add a bank account.
8. Go to section III to setup your account
configuration
II. I have an existing Personal account with PayPal
1. Go to
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_registration-run
2. Click on the Upgrade your Account link
3. Click on the Upgrade Now button
4. If your account was a personal account, you will automatically be upgraded
to a Premier account
5. To upgrade to a business account, start from Step 1 again
6. If you were a Premier account holder, you will be sent to the Business
account upgrade. Follow the instructions.
7. Follow Steps 5-8 in Section I if you have not done so
8. Go to section III to setup your account
configuration
III. Upgrading to a Business Account
1. Cut and paste this URL into your browser:
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_dcc_hub-inside
2. If you do not have a business account with PayPal, you will see a Upgrade to
Business Account link
3. Click on the link and follow the process for upgrading
IV. Applying for the PayPal Payments Pro application
1. Cut and paste this URL into your browser:
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_dcc_hub-inside
2. Click on the Submit Application link on the page
3. Fill out your information. You will be required to have a social security
number for this application
4. Submit your application. Approval will take between 24-48 hours to approve.
You will get an approval email or you can visit the sign up page again:
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_dcc_hub-inside
5. Once you are approved, go to his site again:
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_dcc_hub-inside
6. You should see a Complete Billing Agreement link on the page. Click on that
link and agree to the billing information. PayPal is waiving the monthly fee is until February, 2006.
V. Grant permissions to ASecureCart
Once your PayPal account is approved and configured, you need to obtain the credentials that ASecureCart will use to communicate with it. Follow the steps provided at https://www.asecurecart.net/profilemanager/Help/kb.aspx?ID=106 to obtain the credentials and enter them into your ASecureCart "Payment Methods" screen.
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