PayPal Integration

Published on 7/1/2026

For enabling payment in software, Stripe is the leading solution. But it does not support India.

Hence PayPal is chosen. Alternatives are there. But what ever.

The steps for integration are:

  • A manually verified account
  • Should be a business account
  • Try with sandbox business account first
  • Copy client id environment variables. Secret only in server side.
  • React JS project with PayPal React JS library
  • Place Paypal Buttons component inside a Paypal context provider
  • For order create & order capture, it shall be done in server side as it uses Paypal Secret
  • Buttons shall call these server endpoints
  • Server side can call actual Paypal create order & capture order
  • For sandbox testing, don’t use default App & Users. Create new ones.
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