Once you have your PayPal account, you need to configure NeatClubs.COM to use this PayPal account for payment.
You will have the option to use different PayPal accounts for different registration events, however you also need to set a default merchant account system-wide for use when the PayPal account is not defined at the event level.
While logged into your NeatClubs.COM website as the administrator, select “System Setup”, “Preferences”, “Payment”. This screen allows you to edit your PayPal merchant account details inside NeatClubs.COM.
The setup options are explained below:
| • | PayPal Account E-Mail: This will be the PayPal account that you registered with PayPal. |
| • | PayPal Payment URL: This will normally be “https://www.paypal.com/”. Please enter this string exactly, in lower case including the trailing slash. Advanced users who wish to use the PayPal “sandbox” accessible at http://developer.paypal.com Users of the sandbox can specify the sandbox URL in this field, https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/. The sandbox is useful for simulating registrations involving paymend end to end without actually needing to pay on-line. |
| • | Enable PayPal Data Transfer Mode: (this must be set to "Yes") |
| • | PayPal PDT Authorization String: (this is obtained from within your PayPal merchant account) |
PayPal Data Transfer (PDT) provides secure data transfers between the PayPal merchant site and your NeatClubs.COM managed web-site instance. NeatClubs needs this feature turned on since this is the only way to securely post data back to the NeatClubs web-site followed a payment transaction. The explanation that follows addresses how you go about obtaining your PayPal PDT Authorization String. When PayPal passes data back to your web-site following payment, your website will essentially need to “login” to PayPal programmatically to obtain confidential financial transaction details. PayPal will pass your website a transaction ID, and your web-site will then call the PayPal secure site via a specific port, supply the valid transaction ID, and additionally supply the confidential PayPal PDT authorization string you enter here. PayPal allows only a few seconds for the site to respond with all this correct information. This makes it virtually impossible for a third-party to contact PayPal and access your payment related data since they will have neither the transaction ID nor the PDT string.
To enable PayPal PDT, and obtain the PayPal PDT authorization string, you will need to enable both in your PayPal merchant account as shown in the next step.