Payment Provider
Connect PayPal to Wilph
PayPal REST credentials let Wilph read payments, refunds and disputes.
- Roughly how long
- About 5 minutes
- Who can do it
- The PayPal business account owner or an admin.
Before you start
- Your PayPal business account login.
Step by step
Open the developer dashboard
Go to developer.paypal.com and log in with your normal PayPal business account.
Switch to Live
Open Apps & Credentials and switch the toggle from Sandbox to Live. This is the step that is easiest to miss, and sandbox credentials will not see a single real order.
Create an app
Choose Create App, name it Wilph, and pick Merchant as the type. PayPal then shows the Client ID and, behind a Show link, the Secret.
Paste them into Wilph
In Wilph, open Dashboard → Integrations → PayPal → Connect, save the client ID and secret, and set the environment to Live.
What Wilph asks for
The exact fields on the connection form, in order.
- Client ID
Copy this from Apps & Credentials in the PayPal Developer Dashboard.
- Client secretStored encrypted
The secret for the same PayPal REST app.
- Environment
Sandbox and live credentials are different and cannot be mixed.
The secret is encrypted before storage.
Create PayPal REST API credentials ↗If something goes wrong
Everything authenticates but no orders are found.
You almost certainly created a sandbox app. Repeat the steps with the Live toggle on and replace the credentials.
Still stuck? Get in touch — tell us which step it failed on and what it said.
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Ready to connect PayPal?
Open Integrations in your Wilph dashboard and paste in what you collected.