Paypal Payment Processor
BluBilling supports two of the PayPal products, Website Payments Pro and Payflow Pro. The other products offered by Paypal are not suited for recurring billing services.
PAYPAL WEBSITE PAYMENTS PRO
The PayPal WebSite Payment Pro offering combines a merchant account as well as a payment gateway. Only the basic account is needed; add on features (including the highly limited "Recurring Payments" feature) are not needed.
Supported features list for this processor:
| Country Availability | USA, Canada, and UK |
| Credit cards and Debit cards | Yes |
| Bank Draft via ACH | Not available from Paypal |
| Refunds | Must reference a payment less than 60 days old |
| Notes | Your Paypal a/c must not be flagged to require the CVV* |
* As part of its underwriting process PayPal may require your business account to provide the Card Verification Value (CVV, also known as CSC or CCV) which is the 3 digit security number on the back of a credit card. PCI regulations mandate that the CVV can never be stored, hence you must contact Paypal customer service to have this restriction removed if you wish to use BluSynergy's BluBilling recurring billing service.
CREATING A TEST ACCOUNT FOR WEBSITE PAYMENTS PRO
In order to test your billing and payments, you can create a test account at https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/ and follow the directions here https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/ebook/PP_Sandbox_UserGuide/test_user_setup.html#1040495
Note: It can take about an hour for this account to be activated by PayPal.
For configuring BluBilling to use PayPal Website Payment Pro, use the following values in the Processor Configuration screen (under the System menu). You can retrieve the credentials by logging into your PayPal account and navigating to "My Account" >> "Profile". Your userid, password, and signature is available under the "Request API Credentials" section
| Field Name | Test/Sandbox | Production |
| Processor | Paypal Website Pro V1 | Paypal Website Pro V1 |
| Processor Userid | Your sandbox userid | Your production userid |
| Processor Password | Your sandbox password | Your production password |
| Account ID | Your sandbox signature | Your production signature |
| Primary Url | sandbox | live |
PAYPAL PAYFLOW PRO
The PayPal Payflow Pro account allows you to use PayPal as the interface to your third party processor. Note that you will need an account with both PayPal as well as the 3rd party processor for this configuration. Payflow supports all these major processors.
- American Express
- First Data Merchant Services Nashville
- First Data Merchant Services South
- First Data Merchant Services North (CardNet)
- Merchant e-Solutions
- Moneris
- Norwest
- Elavon (Nova)
- Paymentech Salem
- Paymentech Tampa
- Telecheck
- TSYS (Vital/VisaNet)
You can get started with a test account by signing up at https://registration.paypal.com
| Country Availability | USA, Australia |
| Credit cards and Debit cards | Yes |
| Bank Draft via ACH | Yes, select Telecheck as processor* |
| Refunds | Yes, if supported by processor |
| Notes | It is recommended that you set up a seperate "User" that is different from the "vendor" (aka "merchant login") |
*Contact us if you require both Credit Card and ACH
For configuring BluBilling to use PayPal Website Payment Pro, use the
following values in the Processor Configuration screen (under the System
menu).
| Field Name | Test/Sandbox | Production |
| Processor | Paypal Payflow Pro V1 | Paypal Payflow Pro V1 |
| Processor Userid | Your sandbox user | Your production user |
| Processor Password | Your sandbox password | Your production password |
| Account ID | Your sandbox vendor ID (merchant login) | Your production vendor ID (merchant login) |
| Primary Url | pilot-payflowpro.paypal.com | payflowpro.paypal.com |
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Testimonials
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