PayPal - API Setup

Here's how to set up your PayPal Premier or Business account to synchronise with your FreeAgent account, and to enable Express Checkout for receiving invoice payments online.

With API access enabled, your PayPal transactions will automatically appear in your account, without you having to download the transactions from PayPal and then upload them into FreeAgent.

Before you can enable this you will have to edit some settings in your PayPal account.

Granting API access to FreeAgent through PayPal

Once logged in at www.PayPal.com, click on the Profile link on the far right of the navigation:

In the left-hand navigation, click on My Selling Preferences

Under the Selling Online section, click Update next to the API Access option:

Click on the Grant API Permission link:

On the Add New Third Party Permissions screen, enter freeagent_paypal_api1.freeagentcentral.com and click Lookup:

Select the following 5 options from the resulting screen:

Enabling in FreeAgent

'Edit' your PayPal account from the Banking section and look for the 'Advanced Setup for PayPal Premier or Business accounts' options.

Select from the checkbox options for ‘Express Checkout’ and ‘Automatic Feeds’, including whether you want FreeAgent to guess transaction explanations.

Non-native currency transactions

Foreign currency transactions are converted to their native currency by PayPal before the resulting transactions are imported into FreeAgent.
FreeAgent will ignore foreign currency transactions if you set your PayPal account to hold balances in more than one currency.