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Paypal setup for Desktop Sales Forecasting
Those instructions apply both to
Lokad Desktop Sales Forecasting and
Lokad Excel Sales Forecasting.
The connection string to be used is
username;password;signature
where
username,
password and
signature is a three-way authentication method to access your Paypal account.
To obtain your API credentials from PayPal:
- Log in to your
Premier or Business account at Paypal. - Click the
Profile tab. - Click the
API Access link under the Account Information header. - Click the link that says
Request API Credentials. - Select API Signature.
Privacy disclaimer: at no point, those access codes get transmitted to Lokad. The application makes read-only operations to retrieve the sales data from your Paypal account. This data gets anonymized/obfuscated before being uploaded to Lokad. The whole process respects the privacy of your customers. No personal customer information is send to Lokad.