If you’re a 1ShoppingCart user and accept PayPal as a payment method than there’s a neat little trick you should be aware of that will enable 1ShoppingCart and PayPal to work better together. It’s called a “PDT Identity Token” and we highly encourage you to follow the steps below to improve the interaction between these two systems.
Please note: You need to have a Business or Premier Account with PayPal, not a personal account for this to work.
Step #1 Log into your 1ShoppingCart.com account
Step #2 On the left menu bar click on “Cart Setup” and then on “Gateway Setup”
Step #3 Scroll down to the box that reads “PayPal PDT (Payment Data Transfer)”
Step #4 Click on the link that says “click here” within that grey box
Step #5 A new window will open up with the heading “Using Payment Data Transfer (PDT) For PayPal Standard Transactions”. Go to Section III, which is titled “I have a Premier or Business Account with PayPal.” In step 4 of those instructions you’ll see the URL http://www.mcssl.com/app/postauthorizeb1pp.asp. Highlight and copy this URL.
Step #6 Open up a new window and login to your PayPal account.
Step #7 On the top menu bar click on the link that says “Profile”
Step #8 Under the heading “Selling Preferences” click on the link that reads “Website Payment Preferences”.
Step #9 Set “Auto Return for Website Payments” to “On”.
Step #10 Paste that URL you highlighted and copied in Step #5 into the box in PayPal that says “Return URL”.
Step #11 Set “Payment Data Transfer” to “On”.
Step #12 Highlight and copy the alphanumeric “Identity Token” listed underneath this.
Step #13 Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the “Save” button.
Step #14 Return to your open 1ShoppingCart.com window and place a check in the little box titled “Enable PDT” that is just to the right of the PayPal PDT box.
Step #15 Paste the Identity Token into the box labeled “PDT Identity Token”.
Step #16 Click the “Save Changes” button.
This may seem like quite a few steps but you can do it in just a few minutes and shopping cart experts like Christina Hills of ShoppingCartQueen.com report that it has significantly improved their PayPal/1ShoppingCart interaction.