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Creating Classic API credentials
Create your live Classic API credentials from the PayPal.com site as follows: 1. Log in to PayPal.com
You must have a PayPal Business account to make calls to the live PayPal servers. Log in to your Business account on the following page: https://www.paypal.com. 2. Navigate to the API Access page
Click the profile (person) icon in the top right and select Profile and Settings from the drop-down menu. Then navigate to My Selling Tools > API Access and click Update.
Note If you do not see the profile (person) icon in the top right, navigate to the API Access page by clicking My Account > Profile > My Selling Tools > API Access.
3. Generate the Certificate set
Click Request API Credentials on the API Access page:
Click Request API Credentials.
Note: If you’ve already generated a set of API credentials, you’ll have to delete your existing set before you can generate a new set of credentials.
Select Request API signature and click Agree and Submit to generate a set of Signature credentials.
Here’s an example showing a set of Signature credentials (for Certificate credentials, see the section below):
Signature API credential set