I wrote my business site in custom PHP many years ago before much was available in the way of commercial shopping carts. Every year I've updated the certificate, and all was well - until tonight!
I had received a notice that PayPal was updating to more stringent encryption, but I read it carefully and I appeared to be in compliance. I have continued to receive payments.
Then tonight I went to update my certificate as usual, and could not. The Web site was completely shifted around and the usual page was not there. I finally found the page for certificates, but none of the options were what I had been using.
I had been using PayPal Payments Standard Integration (previously called Website Payments Standard Integration), aka Encrypted Website Payments. It was part of the Merchant API. I generated public and private certificates and used these to encrypt the payment buttons. I uploaded the public certificate to the PayPal Web site, and PayPal gave me a certificate ID that I put in my PHP file.
Now this entire method seems to have been disappeared without warning, and I don't know what to do. In one hour, I will no longer be able to receive payments on my business site! PayPal customer service is closed - phone and chat - until Monday.
Please don't accuse me of lack of planning. I had no warning of an impending problem. I read every notice sent to me and made the changes I was told to make. This huge change was not among them. I always upload the new certificate on the last day. That has never caused a problem before.
Can someone please advise me? What are my current options?
Thank you.
