26 Invalid vendor account

[talisman-studios]

Hi folks,

So I just upgraded from 1.3.8a to 1.3.9c, got everything working, then tried to get the payflow/cardinal/maestro stuff working.

I really struggled. The howto docs provided were not too helpful at narrowing down which combination of log ins, ids and passwords I was supposed to use where. Anyway after a little bit of google and a lot of experimentation I found a bit of golden advice. So I'm sharing. The problem is the wrong combination of details in the express paypal checkout set up, which should be the detaisl you would use to log in to your paypal manager:

https://manager.paypal.com

So log in there and use those details:

PAYFLOW: Partner
=Partner used on the manager log in

PAYFLOW: Vendor
= merchant log in on the manager log in

PAYFLOW: User
= same as above OR (I presume, not tested) the User field on the manager log in

PAYFLOW: Password
= the password entered on the manager log in.

With that set up correctly and the rather more specific guides for payments pro as to what should get entered into which box you should be find.

I hope that proves helpful to someone - I felt like a proper newb not being able to figure out what username and password I should be using but to be fair the information I had to work with was kind of ambiguous. And I didn't find much on these forums beyond 'check you are using the right details / talk to paypal' to help me on my way. Much to my surprise might I add, because digging for answers here is usually good to me. Guess that means I'm pretty unimaginative in most of my issues

[DrByte]

From the built-in help text:

PAYFLOW: Partner
Your Payflow Partner name linked to your Payflow account. This value is case-sensitive.
Typical values: PayPal or ZenCart

PAYFLOW: Vendor
Your merchant login ID that you created when you registered for the Payflow Pro account. This value is case-sensitive.

PAYFLOW: User
If you set up one or more additional users on the account, this value is the ID of the user authorized to process transactions. Otherwise it should be the same value as VENDOR. This value is case-sensitive.

PAYFLOW: Password
The 6- to 32-character password that you defined while registering for the account. This value is case-sensitive.