PayPal Checkout Setup Guide

Step by step, how to take PayPal on your Zen Cart store with the PayPal RESTful module (PayPal Checkout), the PayPal module that now ships with Zen Cart in place of the older PayPal Express and PayPal Standard modules.

What's Inside:

• What you need before you start, and which Zen Cart and PHP versions the module supports
• Creating your PayPal API credentials, sandbox and live
• Installing the module, and what to do about older PayPal modules
• Every setting, what to enter, and why
• Testing in PayPal's sandbox
• Going live with a small real order
• Troubleshooting the problems people actually run into

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