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# Simple Commerce – PayPal Settings

Control Panel Location: `Developer --> Add-Ons --> Simple Commerce --> Settings`

## PayPal Account Email

Specify the primary email address associated with the PayPal account processing payments for store purchases.

## Encryption Settings

### Encrypt PayPal Buttons and Links?

Enable encryption for PayPal purchase links and buttons created by Simple Commerce.

Important: Enabling this requires that your server have OpenSSL support compiled in PHP. Ask your server administrator for this information.

Note: Enabling this requires that you use a public certificate and private key. Please read the section on `simple_commerce_encrypted_payments` for full details. To be the most effective, you should set your PayPal account settings to only accept encrypted payments.

### Public Certification ID

Specify the unique ID that is supplied by PayPal after providing them with a public certificate.

### Public Certificate Path

Specify the path to the public certificate file. Please read the section on `simple_commerce_encrypted_payments` for full details.

Note: ExpressionEngine must have read access to this directory, but for security we highly recommended you use a location above web root so that the certificate and key files are not accessible via the web.

### Private Key Path

Specify the path to the private key file. Please read the section on `simple_commerce_encrypted_payments` for full details.

Note: ExpressionEngine must have read access to this directory, but for security we highly recommended you use a location above web root so that the certificate and key files are not accessible via the web.

### PayPal Certificate Path

Specify the path to the PayPal-provided certificate file. Please read the section on `simple_commerce_encrypted_payments` for full details.

Note: ExpressionEngine must have read access to this directory, but for security we highly recommended you use a location above web root so that the certificate and key files are not accessible via the web.

### Temporary Encrypted Files Path

Specify the path to the temporarily stored encrypted files. Please read the section on `simple_commerce_encrypted_payments` for full details.

Note: ExpressionEngine must have read access to this directory, but for security we highly recommended you use a location above web root so that the certificate and key files are not accessible via the web.