Enable API and API Key

Where do I find the API  Key?

I have with PayPal
API Username
API Password
and
Signature

The Message I get:
Your payment for the subscription failed. Please review the reason below and try again
ReasonThis transaction cannot be processed. The merchant's account is not able to process transactions.

I was able to make a payment via the PayPal.me link
 

Hello Dennis

I guess it is because the API is not enabled for your PayPal account. Where are you from? I'm asking this question because using PayPal API for direct credit card payment like that is only available in some countries like US, UK, Canada, Australia...

If you are from one of these countries and still get this error, I guess you will have to contact PayPal and ask them about this

Regards,

Tuan

Hi,

I have the same problem. I have contacted PayPal and they say 'there are no restrictions preventing you from taking payments so this is an integration issue'.

Hello Claire

I would say that the person who answered you might not good enough. Maybe he does not understand the actual problem. The error message is returned by PayPal, not by our code (we just display what they returned when we make a call to them to process payment). So if you get the same error message, there could be a problem with your PayPal account

This transaction cannot be processed. The merchant's account is not able to process transactions.

I assume that you are using PayPal Pro payment plugin? Please note that:

- PayPal Pro is only available in some countries like US, UK, Canada..., so if you are not from these countries, you cannot use it
- Are you using onetime or recurring subscription plan? From what I see, PayPal might disable recurring payment for new PayPal account . And that could be the reason causing the error
- As PayPal charges you monthly fee for using PayPal Pro, I guess they will have to approve your account to allow you to use that. Did that ever happen?

Tuan

This is why then: As PayPal charges you monthly fee for using PayPal Pro, I guess they will have to approve your account to allow you to use that. Did that ever happen?

No, it never happened.

Thank you (again!)

OK, great. So in this case, I guess you will have to contact them again one more time

Hi Tuan,

PayPal have responded and say:

If you would like to have a more consecutive checkout process when allowing the users to checkout with or without the use or creation of a PayPal account I can suggest the consideration of using PayPal Commerce Platform (Advanced Credit / Debit Card processing)

More information:
www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/commerce-platform
developer.paypal.com/docs/platforms/
www.paypal.com/us/business/platforms-and-marketplaces
developer.paypal.com/docs/business/check...anced-card-payments/
developer.paypal.com/docs/business/check...-payments/integrate/

If you could make this possible I would happily buy the plugin.

Yes, I'm looking at these options. But it could be hard to support this, especially if you are using recurring subscription

If you are having onetime subscription only, that should be possible to implement. For recurring, it could take more time before I can have it implemented

Regards,

Tuan

Hi Tuan,
My apologies, I seem to have hijacked a Membership Pro thread! I saw the same error and just jumped on the bandwagon! My needs for this would be for eShop, so one time purchases only.
Kind regards
Claire

Ah, OK Claire. We will update you when we are success with the development of the payment plugin

Tuan