How To Generate PayPal API Details for Your Magento 2 or WooCommerce Online Store

PayPal is one of the most popular payment gateway commonly used by E-Commerce Online Store merchants. This article will guide you how to generate PayPal API details for your Magento 2 e-commerce online store website or WooCommerce e-commerce online store website. You will need to have a PayPal business account registered. If you do not have one, you can register for your PayPal account here: www.paypal.com

Step 1: Login to your PayPal account, and on the right, please go to Your Name > Account settings

Step 2: Go to PRODUCTS & SERVICES > Website payments > API access and click Update.

Step 3: Go to Custom checkout experience > NVP/SOAP API integration (Classic) and click Manage API credentials.

Note: If this is the first time you are creating API credentials, please complete the API Credential Request form. 

Step 4: Click on each Show to see the API username, API password and Signature.