paypal member id

Is the paypal member id the email address associated with the paypal account. I'm using eCart 5 for the first time and notice that there is a standard paypal account option and I just want to make sure I put in the right info. Also what is a paypal API?
Thanks.

for PayPal Payments Standard, the business ID is the email address associated with the paypal business account.


PayPal Payments pro uses an API Username, password and signature. For more details on obtaining these values, see the following documentation:
paypal_signup.pdf

I tried that and when I go to checkout I get this message from paypal:

We cannot process this transaction because there is a problem with the PayPal email address supplied by the seller. Please contact the seller to resolve the problem. If this payment is for an eBay listing, you can contact the seller via the "Ask Seller a Question" link on the listing page. When you have the correct email address, payment can be made at www.paypal.com.

that error will occur if the email address you enter is for an account that has not been upgraded to a business account.

If you have upgraded this account to a business account, you should contact paypal.

I talked with paypal and they said that the account I had should be fine since it is a paypal standard account. If you can you can find the my test product at this address store.php the email address that is showing up at the top is the paypal email address coming from the database.

the email address being passed to paypal is "sales@homeschoollife,com"

<input type="hidden" name="business" id="business" value="sales@homeschoollife,com" />



This is not a valid email address, it uses a comma instead of period. it should be "sales@homeschoollife.com"

if i use firebug to change the address, then submit the confirm page it goes to paypal fine.

You should also find the following on he confirm page:
<input type="hidden" name="address_override" id="address_override" value="1" />


and change it to:<input type="hidden" name="address_override" id="address_override" value="0" />

That fixed part of the problem but. On the checkout page if I click the Check out with Paypal button it still goes to the pp_checkout_failure.php page

to troubleshoot the paypal express checkout issues, add the following code to the failure page:

<?php
     if(!session_id()) session_start();
     echo "<p>Express Authorize: <br />"; 
     echo "Full Request: ".(isset($_SESSION["ECO_Auth_Request"])?htmlentities($_SESSION["ECO_Auth_Request"]):"n/a")."<br />"; 
     echo "Full Response: ".(isset($_SESSION["ECO_Auth_Result"])?htmlentities($_SESSION["ECO_Auth_Result"]):"n/a")."<br /></p>"; 
     echo "<p>Express Process: <br />"; 
     echo "Full Request: ".(isset($_SESSION["ECO_Process_Request"])?htmlentities($_SESSION["ECO_Process_Request"]):"n/a")."<br />"; 
     echo "Full Response: ".(isset($_SESSION["ECO_Process_Result"])?htmlentities($_SESSION["ECO_Process_Result"]):"n/a")."<br /></p>"; 
?>

this will write the full request and full response from paypal to help determine what is wrong

NOTE: The full request and response will contain sensitive information that should be removed before posting here.

I replaced anything that looked unique and not generic code:

Express Authorize: &#8232;Full Request: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"><soap:Header><RequesterCredentials xmlns="urn:ebay:api:PayPalAPI"><Credentials xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents"><Username>CORRECTEMAILREMOVED</Username><Password></Password><Signature></Signature><Subject/></Credentials></RequesterCredentials></soap:Header><soap:Body><SetExpressCheckoutReq xmlns="urn:ebay:api:PayPalAPI"><SetExpressCheckoutRequest><Version xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">60.0</Version><SetExpressCheckoutRequestDetails xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents"><ReturnURL>pp_confirm.php</ReturnURL><CancelURL>pp_cancel.php</CancelURL><PaymentAction>Authorization</PaymentAction><PaymentDetails><OrderTotal currencyID="USD">5.00</OrderTotal></PaymentDetails></SetExpressCheckoutRequestDetails></SetExpressCheckoutRequest></SetExpressCheckoutReq></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>&#8232;Full Response: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:cc="urn:ebay:apis:CoreComponentTypes" xmlns:ed="urn:ebay:apis:EnhancedDataTypes" xmlns:wsu="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2002/07/utility" xmlns:saml="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:assertion" xmlns:ds="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#" xmlns:wsse="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2002/12/secext" xmlns:ebl="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents" xmlns:ns="urn:ebay:api:PayPalAPI"><SOAP-ENV:Header><Security xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2002/12/secext" xsi:type="wsse:SecurityType"></Security><RequesterCredentials xmlns="urn:ebay:api:PayPalAPI" xsi:type="ebl:CustomSecurityHeaderType"><Credentials xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents" xsi:type="ebl:UserIdPasswordType"><Username xsi:type="xs:string"></Username><Password xsi:type="xs:string"></Password><Signature xsi:type="xs:string"></Signature><Subject xsi:type="xs:string"></Subject></Credentials></RequesterCredentials></SOAP-ENV:Header><SOAP-ENV:Body id="_0"><SetExpressCheckoutResponse xmlns="urn:ebay:api:PayPalAPI"><Timestamp xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">2010-08-06T23:13:38Z</Timestamp><Ack xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">Failure</Ack><CorrelationID xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">CONTENTREMOVED</CorrelationID><Errors xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents" xsi:type="ebl:ErrorType"><ShortMessage xsi:type="xs:string">Authentication/Authorization Failed</ShortMessage><LongMessage xsi:type="xs:string">You do not have permissions to make this API call</LongMessage><ErrorCode xsi:type="xs:token">10002</ErrorCode><SeverityCode xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">Error</SeverityCode></Errors><Version xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">60.0</Version><Build xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">CONTENTREMOVED</Build></SetExpressCheckoutResponse></SOAP-ENV:Body></SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
Express Process: &#8232;Full Request: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"><soap:Header><RequesterCredentials xmlns="urn:ebay:api:PayPalAPI"><Credentials xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents"><Username>CORRECTEMAILREMOVED</Username><Password></Password><Signature></Signature><Subject/></Credentials></RequesterCredentials></soap:Header><soap:Body><DoExpressCheckoutPaymentReq xmlns="urn:ebay:api:PayPalAPI"><DoExpressCheckoutPaymentRequest><Version xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">60.0</Version><DoExpressCheckoutPaymentRequestDetails xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents"><Token></Token><PaymentAction>Sale</PaymentAction><PayerID></PayerID><PaymentDetails><OrderTotal currencyID="USD">5.00</OrderTotal><ItemTotal currencyID="USD">5</ItemTotal><ButtonSource>WebAssist.eCartPHP.Pro.ECO</ButtonSource><PaymentDetailsItem><Name>TEST Button</Name><Amount currencyID="USD">5</Amount><Quantity>1</Quantity></PaymentDetailsItem></PaymentDetails></DoExpressCheckoutPaymentRequestDetails></DoExpressCheckoutPaymentRequest></DoExpressCheckoutPaymentReq></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>&#8232;Full Response: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:cc="urn:ebay:apis:CoreComponentTypes" xmlns:ed="urn:ebay:apis:EnhancedDataTypes" xmlns:wsu="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2002/07/utility" xmlns:saml="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:assertion" xmlns:ds="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#" xmlns:wsse="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2002/12/secext" xmlns:ebl="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents" xmlns:ns="urn:ebay:api:PayPalAPI"><SOAP-ENV:Header><Security xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2002/12/secext" xsi:type="wsse:SecurityType"></Security><RequesterCredentials xmlns="urn:ebay:api:PayPalAPI" xsi:type="ebl:CustomSecurityHeaderType"><Credentials xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents" xsi:type="ebl:UserIdPasswordType"><Username xsi:type="xs:string"></Username><Password xsi:type="xs:string"></Password><Signature xsi:type="xs:string"></Signature><Subject xsi:type="xs:string"></Subject></Credentials></RequesterCredentials></SOAP-ENV:Header><SOAP-ENV:Body id="_0"><DoExpressCheckoutPaymentResponse xmlns="urn:ebay:api:PayPalAPI"><Timestamp xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">2010-08-06T22:17:59Z</Timestamp><Ack xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">Failure</Ack><CorrelationID xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">CONTENTREMOVED</CorrelationID><Errors xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents" xsi:type="ebl:ErrorType"><ShortMessage xsi:type="xs:string">Authentication/Authorization Failed</ShortMessage><LongMessage xsi:type="xs:string">You do not have permissions to make this API call</LongMessage><ErrorCode xsi:type="xs:token">10002</ErrorCode><SeverityCode xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">Error</SeverityCode></Errors><Version xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">60.0</Version><Build xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">CONTENTREMOVED</Build><DoExpressCheckoutPaymentResponseDetails xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents" xsi:type="ebl:DoExpressCheckoutPaymentResponseDetailsType"></DoExpressCheckoutPaymentResponseDetails></DoExpressCheckoutPaymentResponse></SOAP-ENV:Body></SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

the long error message being returned is:
<LongMessage xsi:type="xs:string">You do not have permissions to make this API call</LongMessage>


This means you account is not set up to accept paypal express transactions, you will need to contact paypal.