how to enable DPRP in PayPal Sandbox account?

Question

I am calling "CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile' method to create recurring payments on CreditCard. But, I am getting 11586 "DPRP is disabled for this merchant". I have been searching through all related threads but none of them is working. I created a fresh US Business Pro account and it did not work either. Some claims that I can enable it from "Products & Services" tab but that tab does not have any "Recurring Payments" link (others does not have any related option).

So, I am kinda stuck. none of my 3 business pro account (both old and new) are working. Anyone know how to get around this? just for information, I am using NVP Classic PayPal API on a sandbox business account. I can provide any information you want to fix it.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

To enable this option for sandbox contact paypal tech support. Here is an tech support answer:

At the moment this feature can be enabled only by us. We have submitted feature request to our developer team to allow this feature to be enabled automatically by customers.

Answer 2

Sandbox pages tend to mirror their live counterparts. You can typically just change "www.paypal.com" to "www.sandbox.paypal.com".

So here's the link to DPRP on the Sandbox site DPRP. What I would do is log into your sandbox account and hit that sign up page and go through the process. That should flag your Sandbox for DPRP.