PayPal Express Activation in Shopify is not working!
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Hi, no matter what i try i can't activate the paypal express checkout, it remains unactive.
The issue first started after i signed in my new buissness account.
After granting access i get redirected to shopify and nothing chanes.
Please help!

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Good day @Jfish11,
Thank you for posting to the PayPal community.
Third party platforms Shopify develops their own plugins/modules.
I suggest to please contact the support of your third party platform(Shopify) who can able to help you regarding plugins/modules setup.
Here's how:
- Log in to your Shopify admin panel.
- Click Settings.
- Click Payments.
- Select PayPal Express Checkout within the PayPal module.
- Click Activate.
- Once directed to a PayPal login page, log in to your PayPal account and click I Give Permission.
- Click Back to Shopify.
- Under Payment Authorization, select:
- Automatically capture payments for orders (Immediate Sale).
- Manually capture payment for orders (Authorize only).
- Click Save.
Guide link : https://www.paypal.com/gf/smarthelp/article/how-do-i-integrate-express-checkout-with-shopify-ts1797
To process PayPal Express Checkout payments, please contact your website developer or the support of third party platform(eCommerce Shopify) to handle their internal website code and initiate the payment by triggering the SetExpressCheckout API call from your website to the PayPal system via - https://developer.paypal.com/docs/archive/express-checkout/ec-initiate-payment.
Once the payment has been initiated, the merchant's website can trigger the GetExpressCheckoutDetails API call to obtain buyer/customer information, such as name, email address and delivery address, from PayPal.
https://developer.paypal.com/docs/archive/express-checkout/ec-get-payment-details/
Finally, the merchant's website must trigger a call to the DoExpressCheckout payment API to recover the buyer/customer's funds via - https://developer.paypal.com/docs/archive/express-checkout/ec-finalize-payment/.
Sincerely,
Chiranjeevi
PayPal/Braintree MTS
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