Many online merchants and affiliates use Paypal Premier or Business accounts to send and receive payments for their goods and services. Some affiliate program networks (like Click2Sell.EU) have integrated PayPal into their systems and gives their users to experience very easy payments, refunds, subscriptions management using PayPal API. Users have to request their API details for free from Paypal. Paypal Personal account owners need to upgrade their accounts to Premier or Business in order to be able to request API.

There are a few easy steps to request your Paypal API and configure your account on Click2Sell:

1. Go to PayPal.com and login or create your Paypal account.
2. Click the My Account tab.
3. Click the Profile subtab.
4. Under the Account Information column, click the API Access link.
5. Click Request API Credentials.
6. Click the API signature radio button.
7. Complete the API Credential Request form by clicking the agreement checkbox and clicking Submit.
8. Write down the values listed next to API Username and Password.
9. Select the value listed next to Signature Hash, copy it, and save it to a file or some other location. This is your API Signature.
10. You have now generated your API Username, API Password, and API Signature.
11. Login to your Click2Sell account and go to My Profile -> My Payments Processors page. Click on existing PayPal account or create a new PayPal account there.
12. Enter your API data into appropriate fields on this page.
13. Click Save button to save your settings.

That’s it. After doing this you will enjoy easy money management. Just few minutes for getting and entering your API data will save you quite a lot of time each month. For additional information about using PayPal API you can look at Official Click2Sell.EU blog!