Payment Plugin: PayPal Payments Standard

PayPal Website Payments Standard is outdated

PayPal marks this integration as legacy and deprecated: it should not be used for new integrations and may stop working in the future. Switch to the PayPal Checkout plugin. Keep this plugin enabled while existing PayPal Standard subscriptions are active, and tick Hide this Payment System so that new customers use PayPal Checkout.

Check up to date instructions how to enable and configure PayPal plugin

IPN URL to enter into PayPal settings: https://example.com/amember/payment/paypal/ipn

It is only necessary to enable IPN in PayPal. If IPN is already enabled, it does not matter what exactly URL is specified. aMember will automatically let PayPal know to use aMember URL.

PDT Specific confgiuration

This needs to be set only if you have pDT enabled.

Modify your PayPal Profile. Navigate to My selling tools, and click Update next to Website preferences,

which takes you to the Website payment preferences page.

Enable Auto Return for Website Payments.

Then, specify a Return URL and enable Payment Data Transfer. Return URL should be set to : https://example.com/amember/payment/paypal/thanks

Payment Data Transfer requires the Return URL setting.

PayPal displays an Identity Token. Copy and save it; add it to configuration form above.