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Finance & Accounting

PayPal Sandbox OAuth Integration

Connect PayPal Sandbox to your application without building and maintaining the OAuth flow.

PayPal is an online payments platform. Each user connects their own PayPal Sandbox account through your OAuth app. Pathfix manages the authorization flow, stores and refreshes their tokens, and authenticates the requests your application makes to the PayPal Sandbox API. What your integration does with that access is up to your code. This is the sandbox configuration, set up separately from production.

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How Pathfix helps

  • 01

    OAuth authorization

    Pathfix runs the authorization flow with your PayPal Sandbox OAuth app, so users approve access on PayPal’s own consent screen.

  • 02

    Token management

    Each user’s access and refresh tokens are stored by Pathfix rather than in your application.

  • 03

    Token refresh

    Where PayPal Sandbox issues refresh tokens, Pathfix refreshes them as they expire, so connections keep working after the first authorization.

  • 04

    Authenticated API passthrough

    Your application sends PayPal Sandbox API requests through Pathfix, which adds the connected user’s credentials before passing them on to PayPal Sandbox.

You own the PayPal Sandbox OAuth application and its credentials, and your code implements the API logic.

Passthrough endpoint for PayPal SandboxPOST https://labs.pathfix.com/oauth/method/paypalsandbox/call

How to get started

  1. 1

    Register your app with PayPal

    Create an app in PayPal’s developer settings to get a Client ID and Client Secret. When asked for a redirect URI, enter https://labs.pathfix.com/integrate/command.

  2. 2

    Add the credentials in Pathfix

    In your Pathfix account, add an application, select PayPal Sandbox from the providers and enter the Client ID and Client Secret.

  3. 3

    Choose your scopes

    Add only the scopes your integration needs. PayPal’s developer documentation lists what each scope allows.

  4. 4

    Test the connection

    Use Test Connection to connect an account in the API Playground and run a sample call.

  5. 5

    Let your users authorize

    Add the connect step to your app. Each user signs in to PayPal Sandbox and approves the scopes you requested.

  6. 6

    Call the PayPal Sandbox API

    Send requests through the Pathfix passthrough API using the provider reference paypalsandbox.

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