PayPal API

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Putler – our business analysis and insight tool for PayPal merchants requires your PayPal API information to retrieve your account balance and perform other calculations. You can access PayPal via API only if you have a PayPal Premier / Business / Website Payments Pro account.

Here are the steps:

Log in to your PayPal Premier or Business account.
Click the Profile subtab located in the top navigation area.
Click the API Access link under the Account Information header.
Click the Get Started link under the Request API Credentials heading.
Click the My selling preferences sub option in left sidebar.
Click the Update option for API access item

PayPal API access setup
Complete the API Credential Request form by clicking the agreement checkbox and clicking Submit.
You will now get the API username, password and signature.
Copy the values from this page into Putler Settings – Accounts.
Click Test to verify the settings work.

View API details (if you set them earlier)

Still can’t find the API details?

If the above instructions did not work for you, try this:

Login to your PayPal account
Click on Profile
See the classic Profile version (on the left side, outside the My Selling tools box)
API Access (under Account Information)
Choose Option 2 – Request API credentials – click on View API signature.

You should then be able to see the three pieces of info – API signature, username and password.

Did you know? PayPal gets kickass when you use it with Putler…

Products Dashboard in Putler

Putler lets you automatically download and analyze PayPal transactions on your desktop. You will discover valuable insights about your sales trend, product performance, customer loyalty and overall business with Putler. You can also issue refunds, check balance and much more! It’s actually at least 12 times faster than PayPal website in most day to day tasks.

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Here’s another visual guide on obtaining your PayPal API username, password and signature in the old PayPal website design.

{ 8 comments… read them below or add one }

Rajveer Singh August 17, 2011 at 10:51 am

Thanks for these steps..These are very helpful for me.

Bobby September 19, 2011 at 9:32 pm

It would be great if it wasn’t just a paypal hook but you could supply a url and hook into any service (i.e., our wordpress ecommerce plugin and others)

Apps Magnet September 20, 2011 at 10:17 am

Hey Bobby: The only issue is that each service has a different format for the data.

We ourselves develop WPeC extensions and sure, we do plan to extend Putler to support other services / gateways in future.

Bobby September 20, 2011 at 9:22 pm

You could publish the format that the data needs to be in and each service would have to conform in order to be compatible with your app.

Apps Magnet September 21, 2011 at 12:11 pm

Adding that to our roadmap. Would you like to build the first integration?

Sending you an email to continue the discussion.

Bobby September 21, 2011 at 9:52 pm: looking forward to it.

Richard Maynard November 1, 2011 at 3:31 pm

Much easier to find out how to do this by Googling this and finding your instructions than searching the PayPal site itself!

PayPal! Take note!

RE Mason December 6, 2011 at 1:17 am

Thanks so much for these instructions that made sense of a confusing PayPal site!