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I am unable to create Paypal sandbox test account with option PayPal Payments Pro (Use to represent yourself as a merchant using Pro). I selected the option during test account creation but when I viewed the details of that account, then it displayed

Account Type : Seller (Use to represent yourself as the merchant).

Please help me as I am unable to do credit card payment integration using sandbox as it is showing

error : 

Array
(
    [TIMESTAMP] => 2013-02-06T10:40:57Z
    [CORRELATIONID] => 2732f8af3ec70
    [ACK] => Failure
    [VERSION] => 85.0
    [BUILD] => 5060305
    [L_ERRORCODE0] => 10501
    [L_SHORTMESSAGE0] => Invalid Configuration
    [L_LONGMESSAGE0] => This transaction cannot be processed due to an invalid merchant configuration.
    [L_SEVERITYCODE0] => Error
    [AMT] => 100.00
    [CURRENCYCODE] => USD
)

Thanks in advance.

Stijn Geukens
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  • When you go to create the account on developer.paypal.com, try setting Country to Canada instead of United States. – Matt Cole Feb 06 '13 at 15:56

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The API credentials in the Sandbox environment uses the default buyer account you have. You need to make sure to use the “payments pro” option when you create a buyer account in the sandbox environment. You’ll then see a new set of API credentials under API credentials…

Steps below:

  1. Go to the link https://developer.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/devscr?cmd=_sandbox-acct-session and login with your sandbox credentials

  2. And click on the link Preconfigured which will take you to https://developer.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/devscr?cmd=_create-account-session

  3. From the options select Website Payments Pro (Use to represent yourself as a merchant using Pro) and create a Test Account and use these details for sandbox

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  • Hi Vikas,thanks for the valuable response.My problem is that I am unable to create test account with option PayPal Payments Pro (Use to represent yourself as a merchant using Pro). That is my problem. – Arvind Feb 06 '13 at 12:37
  • have you created businees account on sandbox? – thecodedeveloper.com Feb 06 '13 at 12:40
  • Yes Vikas,I created the business account but nothing works. I am having options for Account Type : Buyer (Use to represent your customer's experience) Buyer In-Store (Use to represent your customer's experience with in-store checkout enabled) Seller (Use to represent yourself as the merchant) PayPal Payments Pro (Use to represent yourself as a merchant using Pro) – Arvind Feb 06 '13 at 13:01
  • check my updated answer and choose PayPal Payments Pro (Use to represent yourself as a merchant using Pro) when you create business a/c for paypal pro – thecodedeveloper.com Feb 06 '13 at 13:09
  • I tried a lot and selected every time the option PayPal Payments Pro (Use to represent yourself as a merchant using Pro) as account type but on view details of test account, it shows Seller (Use to represent yourself as the merchant) as account type. – Arvind Feb 06 '13 at 13:20
  • check my updated answer , create once again business a/c and try, tell me if you have further problem – thecodedeveloper.com Feb 06 '13 at 13:28
  • I got this response from Paypal regarding sandbox feature for the option PayPal Payments Pro (Use to represent yourself as a merchant using Pro) as account type : There is currently a known issue with creating or enabling payments pro on sandbox accounts that the engineers are working to address. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. We are aware of this issue and are actively working to resolve it. As soon as we are aware that the problem has been resolved, we will notify you by replying to this email. – Arvind Mar 20 '13 at 08:30
  • Is there any update on this? I still dont see an option to create a payments pro – JohnMerlino May 20 '13 at 00:24