Symptoms

PayPal Express eTransaction has status "in Process" or paying an order with PayPal Express and performing redirect to external system fails in an error:

Your payment failed. Please contact Provider.

The following error can be found in BA logs ( PAYPAL_EXPRESS.log for pre 6.0 or generic_worker.log in BA 6.x ):

"Merchant not enabled for reference transactions"

Cause

PayPal live account misconfiguration.

Resolution

Please contact PayPal Support, more information can be found here.

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