Authorization failed due to insufficient permissions. Invalid Scopes
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Hi,
I am getting authentication error when trying to an authorization request on Paypal sandbox environment.
Error message: "Authorization failed due to insufficient permissions"
Sandbox ID - gmk5dfkmv4hfvtfx
{
"name": "BUSINESS_ERROR",
"debug_id": "475026eb1dc84",
"message": "Business error",
"information_link": "https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/api/#BUSINESS_ERROR",
"details": [
{
"name": "UNAUTHORISED ACCESS",
"message": "Authorization failed due to insufficient permissions. Invalid Scopes"
}
]
}
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Hi there,
I have a similar issue with my sandbox account merchand id CKTV49LXSKMM2 with calculated-financing-options
debugid f778741a63343
Please can I have access added to my account?
Moving forward, is there a way I can add any future permissions myself?
Thanks!

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Hello @Arkath878 ,
Thank you for contributing to this post. I have enabled Future Payments Scopes to your sandbox rest api app.
The Future Payments Scopes are only needed for Vault and Reference Transactions. At some point we will have these scopes added at the time of app creation.
Thank you,
Jennifer
MTS
PayPal
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Hi Jennifer,
Thanks for the update however I am still having an issue with /credit/calculated-financing-options endpoint. We are not able to request finance options for products without this access and it is causing issues with our test environment so would be great to get it resolved.
Are you able to add access to my sandbox account for this please?
Debug id: f6015324209aa
merchant id: CKTV49LXSKMM2
Thank you

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Hi @Arkath878,
Good day!
I have added the required scopes. Please perform a new API call via the sandbox test environment.
Have a great day.
Sincerely,
Chiranjeevi
PayPal/Braintree MTS
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Hello @MTS_Jennifer ,
we have another sandbox business account with the same problem.
MerchantId: pp5g2qnyzgx3d6d2
DebugId: 47e73afde8f84
Could you please add all future payment scopes?
Thank you.
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Hello @MTS_Jennifer and @MTS_Chiranjeevi.
My sandbox debugId is 3217271b3ff34.
Could you please add all future payment scopes?
Thanks.
Full error response:
{
"error": {
"errorName": "NOT_AUTHORIZED",
"errorMessage": "Authorization failed due to insufficient permissions. --- :",
"errorDetails": [
{
"issue": "UNAUTHORIZED_ACCESS",
"description": "You don't have permission to access this resource."
}
],
"debugId": "3217271b3ff34",
"paypalHttpStatus": 403
}
}

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