I am currently trying to integrate paypal express checkout with an organic fruit and vegetable online shop that I manage the website for.
Wow! What a flakey experience, I can only hope that the PayPal production site is more stable than its sandbox!
First up, when I tried to create test accounts in the sandbox I kept getting mysterious "system errors". Only after much googling I discovered that this mysterious system error means that the password for the test account does not meet the password complexity rules... (hint: Password1! meets the criteria).
Then there are the random, intemittent failures when I call the express checkout apis.
And now, I find that paypal gives me an nginx 404 error when I try to launch the integrated express checkout page: https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/checkoutnow?token=blah. After a while it comes good...
This just smells of a half baked test sandbox environment. No wonder upstarts like Braintree (now bought by PayPal) and Stripe are eating paypals lunch in the payments market.
In fact, I was thinking of using Braintree integration, but there signup process was a bit onerous, asking me questions about our shops delivery and returns policy (we don't have one - people pick up their groceries each week), privacy policy, etc.
Anyway, PayPal needs to step up its game as far as developers are concerned... when you have so many issues in its test environment you have to wonder how stable the production environment is.
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