PayPal API 403 PERMISSION_DENIED on get order and capture order

[martianmaikel]

I'm trying to finish my checkout with PayPal for my Laravel App for 2 days but capturing the order just doesn't work.

I followed the instructions https://developer.paypal.com/docs/checkout/standard/integrate/  and everything works fine - I genera...

{
 "debug_id": "xxx",
 "details": [
 {
 "description": "You do not have permission to access or perform operations on this resource.",
 "issue": "PERMISSION_DENIED"
 }
 ],
 "links": [
 {
 "href": "https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/orders/v2/#error-PERMISSION_DENIED",
 "rel": "information_link"
 }
 ],
 "message": "Authorization failed due to insufficient permissions.",
 "name": "NOT_AUTHORIZED"
}

I already found out, that it could be something with the transaction search option checked AND waiting 9 hours to get the new scope if I requested a token with transaction search unchecked. So I checked it, waited about 14 hours and I'm still don't getting it into the scope of the access token 

"scope":"https://uri.paypal.com/services/billing-agreements https://api.paypal.com/v1/payments/.* https://uri.paypal.com/services/vault/payment-tokens/read openid Braintree:Vault https://api.paypal.com/v1/vault/credit-card/.* https://uri.paypal.com/services/subscriptions".

 

What could possible cause this problem?

[Kavyar]

Good day @martianmaikel 

Thank you for posting to the PayPal community.

I would suggest to please contact your website developer or the third party eCommerce support to cross check your using same SANDBOX/LIVE  REST API Credentials(Client ID & Secret) while performing the below API calls.

https://developer.paypal.com/api/rest/authentication/

https://developer.paypal.com/api/rest/postman/ 

Merchant should first perform Create Order API( https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/orders/v2/#orders_create) call and then redirect the customer/buyer to "approve" URL. 

Once the order is approved by the customer/buyer, merchant should perform CaptureOrder ( https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/orders/v2/#orders_capture) API call and customer/buyer should pass the valid funding source.

Also, If a third-party eCommerce partner is performing API operation on your behalf, you(i.e merchant) should be on-boarded and necessary API permissions should be granted to the Partner(API Caller). 

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/multiparty/ 

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/multiparty/seller-onboarding/ 

Merchants can manually grant permission to a third-party eCommerce to access specific information in your PayPal account and perform PayPal API operations on your behalf.

Login PayPal.com >> Settings >> Account Settings >> Website payments >> API Access >> Pre-built payment solution >> Grant API permission >> contact your "Third party software eCommerce" for Third Party Permission Username >> enter the username.

Direct link -  https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_profile-api-grant-authorization

                       https://developer.paypal.com/api/nvp-soap/paypal-payments-standard/admin/third-party/ 

If your still facing issues, please create an MTS ticket via -  https://www.paypal-support.com/s/?language=en_US  with the detailed information and error details.

Sincerely,

Kavya

PayPal MTS

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