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What version are you using? Did you have any trouble with it not returning to the correct page? It is returning to my home page at the moment but I am on the BETA. All the e-mails worked fine.

I am finding the developer site pretty unusable at the moment so I did a $2 transaction on the live site instead using all the same things and it worked except I didn't land back on the confirmation page I expected.

The wiki is user editable.  As you go through the paypal setup process, please edit and correct the mistakes / rewrite as needed.

As an open source project, help from the community in such projects is incredibly helpful to us and the rest of the community

lobo

Thats unfortunate....  I had a much smoother paypal set-up,  though civicrm COntribute was a bit stubborn as far as profiles and data ( I assumed that data collected in making a contribution without any custom profile would be saved somewhere,  but the system asked for address and than  apparently did not save that info anywhere and profiles were a huge perm issue).

The only issue I had was that the detail for the sandbox test was a bit oblique if you had not gone through it....  but it worked flawlessly....

As I mentioned , there was no info in the wiki about set up for genuine pay,  and I did not feel competent to edit the wiki because I did not know if what I had done (setting the real account in paypal the same way as the sandbox) was really working (for example, while it seems that I wento the thank you page in the sand box,  in the real deal I did not.....)

So there are quite a few set up issues to be addressed.....  and I guess you are left to your own devices in some respects to figure it out.....   and while commenting on what may (or may not have worked ) may be appropriate in a forum,  I am always reluctant to go hacking away at a wiki for fear of making things worse for the next guy ;=}

but I will try to check out your info there and compare it to my experience.

Argh! I requested API credentials (I figured it's not a certificate because that's a text file) and the info I got doesn't fit the fields on Website Payments Standard configuration page, they fit Website Payments Pro (API Username, API Password and Signature).

I double-checked, the Paypal acct I signed up for is definitely "Standard".

For paypal standard, the only info we need is "email address" of the paypal account. Check: http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/admin/paymentProcessor?action=add&reset=1&pp=PayPal_Standard

For your error with paypal pro, check: https://www.paypal.com/IntegrationCenter/ic_api-errors.html

lobo