PayPal Integration Caveats

Disable Shipping Cost

Having integrated a Paypal Payment Gateway, it is possible that you may be using the Paypal Gateway to buy and sell goods outside our system for which you may wish to charge a Shipping Cost. If the Shipping Cost is set, a Customer trying to pay for a domain name through our system using the Payment Gateway set by you will see the price as Shipping Cost + Domain Name Cost. To avoid this, you need disable Shipping Cost.

Steps to disable the Shipping Cost:

  1. Login to your PayPal account at https://www.paypal.com.

  2. Click the PROFILE sub tab.

  3. Click the Shipping Calculations link in the Selling Preferences column.

  4. In COST METHOD, select Flat Amount ($) and Click SELECT.

  5. In COST and PRICE RANGES, do not enter a Shipping Cost for any price range. To make changes to the Price Ranges, click EDIT.

  6. In MISCELLANEOUS, do not select the Click here to allow transaction-based shipping values to override the profile shipping settings listed above (if profile settings are enabled) checkbox.

  7. Click SAVE.