Paypal Pro and Everest

There is a confusion out there with all Everest Customers using the Everest Advanced product and Payflow Pro. As you know Paypal is upgrading it's Payflow Pro product for higher security. But Everest is requiring that all Everest user register their Paypal account with them in order to use the new 5.0.2.5 version. An excerpt is found below. It's a bit unusual as I am not sure why we would need to do that. It seems that Everest wants to link their client Paypal account with theirs, which I think can be a privacy issue.

So I asked an Account rep at Everest to confirm the requirement and found out that as of today, it's no longer needed.

Excerpt from Everest site 08/12/2009:

Will my existing Payflow Pro accounts be impacted?

Paypal’s announcement caught us by surprise along with many of our customers. We didn’t know how many customers were impacted so we had to use a survey to better understand the scale of the impact. To eliminate this scenario in the future, Everest has partnered with Paypal in order to provide a better customer experience and more comprehensive product communications. This partnership requires that Everest customers create new Payflow Pro account(s) in order to use Everest Advanced and the new Payflow Pro integration. You need to contact Everest to create the accounts. Existing accounts and new accounts created by Paypal or their other partners will not work with Everest Advanced. The new accounts will not change how customers use Payflow Pro.

RESOLUTION:

If you already have an existing Payflowpro processor, just change the processor type from "Payflow Pro(legacy)" to "Payflow Pro". Then in the host change it to "payflowpro.paypal.com"

Note: Make sure you have upgraded to 5.0.2.5 or else you won't see the option.

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