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The Sandbox APIs are functioning properly; however, when we switch to the live mode with the live API, we are experiencing issues and it is not functioning as expected.
and we get error like: Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 400 ()

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Good day @Temp20230606C,
Thank you for posting to the PayPal community.
For failed requests, PayPal returns HTTP 4XX status codes if something passed in the request has an error.
I would suggest to please contact your website developer or the support of third party platform eCommerce to cross check your internal website and pass valid API requests to PayPal system.
Status code | Description | Possible causes and solutions |
400 Bad Request | INVALID_REQUEST. Request is not well-formed, syntactically incorrect, or violates schema. | See Validation errors. The server could not understand the request. Indicates one of these conditions:
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Sincerely,
Chiranjeevi
PayPal/Braintree MTS
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