Gossimer has directly integrated the PayPal API within our system, such that by mentioning a few details in your interface and your Business PayPal Account, you can safely and securely collect money from your Sub-Resellers and Customers.

When your Customer/Sub-Reseller decides to pay you through this Payment Gateway, we send all the variables via an API Call to the PayPal Server, to get the transaction authenticated. All this while your Customer/Sub-Reseller continues to remain within their OrderBox Control Panel itself.

Before you Start
You will need to verify/perform the following before you start -

• Verify that you have a Business PayPal account only. You cannot integrate a Personal PayPal account with our System.
   

• Apply for Website Payment Pro (for US Business PayPal accounts only)
  You need to apply for Website Payment Pro before you can make successful API calls to services such as DirectPayment. If you have already been approved for Pro, you also need to accept the Billing Agreement. This is sometimes overlooked by merchants who think they have already accepted this by applying for Pro, but it is indeed a separate step that must be completed after approval.

   

  To apply for Website Payment Pro, follow these steps:

  a) Login to your PayPal account [must be a Business account] from https://www.paypal.com

  b) Click the Merchant Tools tab

  c) From the Dropdown select

  Website Payment Pro

  d) On the bottom of the right column, under Getting Started, click on

  Submit Application

  e) Complete the 2 page form

  f) Click

  Go To My Account

  At this point, your account will undergo an approval process by PayPal that generally takes 2-3 days. Once you have been approved for Website Payments Pro, login back into your PayPal account and complete these steps:

  i) Click the Merchant Tools tab
  ii) In the top right corner, click Accept Billing Agreement
  iii) Click Agree
   

   

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  Allow Gossimer’s PayPal API Name to make API calls on your account

  a) Login to your PayPal account from https://www.paypal.com

  b) Click on

  Profile -> API Access -> API Access Authorization / Authorize API Access / API Authorizations

  c) Click on

  Add

  d) Mention the API Account Name as

  paypal_api1.myorderbox.com

  e) Enable API Access for the following calls and click on the Save button

  i) RefundTransaction
  ii) GetTransactionDetails
  iii) TransactionSearch
  iv) DoCapture
  v) DoVoid
  vi) DoDirectPayment
  vii) DoAuthorization
   

   

• Using PayPal Direct Payment API Gateway, you would be able to accept funds from only 55 countries. The complete list of these countries is available at http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-approved-signup-countries-outside.

Adding the PayPal Direct Payment API Gateway into your account consists of the following simple steps -

1. Login into your Reseller Control Panel from http://manage.gossimer.biz/reseller

2. Click on the Settings -> Finance & Billing -> Payment Gateway -> List / Add

3. Click on the Add Payment Gateway button and then on the Add a PayPal Direct Payment API Gateway link.

4. Enter the following details and Save your changes by clicking on the Submit button

Gateway Name – This Gateway Name would be shown to your Customers/Sub-Resellers, when they are about to make Payment. You can use something like “Credit Card Payment” or “Visa/Master Card” etc.

PayPal Account Username – The Username [e-mail address] you use to login into your PayPal Business account.

Currency – PayPal allows you to charge your Customers/Sub-Resellers in 6 different currencies. However, to use the PayPal Direct Payment API Gateway, you can only select USD Currency.

Currency Exchange Rate – If your Selling Currency differs from USD, we will have to convert the Order Value to the PayPal Currency, BEFORE we send your Customer/Sub-Reseller to PayPal. For this purpose the system needs a exchange rate between the two.

You may choose to maintain this exchange rate yourselves or let us maintain it for you. We download FOREX rates on a daily basis from a recognised source and update exchange rates for you. If however you wish to update the rates yourselves then you may do so by selecting the I would like to Maintain the currency exchange rate myself checkbox AND entering your own conversion rates.

Select the types of CREDIT CARDS that your merchant account supports - You need to select the types of Credit Card that are supported by your PayPal Account. The credit card types available are – Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover. You can also decide the sequence in which you want your Customers / Sub-Resellers to view these Card types on the payment page.

Payment Gateway Access Level for Customers and Sub-Resellers – Click here to know more about the Payment Gateway Transaction types and Access Levels for your Customers and Sub-Resellers >>

Deciding whether a Sub-Reseller and Customer is Credited with the Gross Amount or Net – PayPal deducts a fee per transaction. There are two types of Transactions that can pass through your PayPal integration – Invoice/Debit Note Payment, and Add Funds. Click here to know more about the Payment Gateway Transaction types and Access Levels for your Customers and Sub-Resellers >>
 

In case of an Add Funds Transaction, you have the option of crediting your Customers/Sub-Resellers with the NET Amount that PayPal credits you with, or choose to credit them with the gross funds and bear the charges yourselves.