# Paypal

PayPal is the faster, safer way to make an online payment, receive money. By using this feature customers can pay the invoices.

We have integrated paypal by using laravel-paypal ([https://github.com/srmklive/laravel-paypal](https://www.gitbook.com/book/lcrm/lcrm/edit)). For this you need to follow the below steps

* First you need to have an pay pal account or else create an account here ([https://www.paypal.com](https://www.paypal.com/))
* **For Live credentials**: We should have API credentials for those we credentials we need to create Paypal developers account(<https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/api/apiCredentials/#create-an-api-signature>)

**For Sandbox Credentials:**

* To create sandbox paypal account (<https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/lifecycle/sb_create-accounts/>) please follow the steps which were provided in the link.
* After finishing the above step, you can see the accounts/emails which you have created (Business and buyers). Click on the Business account which displays **Profile** & **Notifications.**
* Click on the **Profile,**&#x79;ou can see a modal with different tabs.
* Choose the **API Credentials Tab**
* Here you can get the API Credentials. Use those credentials in the **LCRM Settings Page**

Note:

Don't get confuse between **PAYPAL\_SANDBOX\_API\_SECRET** and **Signature**. Both are same.

**Handling Paypal IPN:**

You can also handle Instant Payment Notifications from PayPal. Suppose you have set IPN URL to <http://saas-demo.lcrmapp.com/ipn/notify/> in PayPal.

* To handle Paypal IPN refer laravel paypal documentation <https://github.com/srmklive/laravel-paypal#paypalipn>

**Setting up IPN Notifications on paypal:**

To setup the ipn notifications refer the paypal documentation <https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/ipn/integration-guide/IPNSetup/>