Title: Empty PayPal gateway error
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Empty PayPal gateway error

 *  [letsgrowdk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/letsgrowdk/)
 * (@letsgrowdk)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-paypal-gateway-error/)
 * Store URL: [http://www.letsgrow.dk](http://www.letsgrow.dk)
    WordPress version:
   3.5.1 WP e-Commerce version: 3.8.9.5 Gold Cart version: 2.9.7 Theme:
 * I did this:
 * When ever you try to buy items using paypal as payment (Has been working for 
   a year, and started to fail last week. I Haven’t changed the settings to Paypal
   API or anything else but did update shipping settings!)
 * I expected WP e-Commerce to do this:
 * Go to paypal express
 * Instead it did this:
 * SetExpressCheckout API call failed.
    Detailed Error Message: Short Error Message:
   Error Code: Error Severity Code:
 * Returns an empty error – I’ve googled and the verdict is that its an e-commerce
   error since the error is empty (not even getting to the getway) – the only solution
   I’ve found is a re-install of e-commerce. this is i not acceptable so I hope 
   you can help with a better solution. At the moment the site is set to “manuel
   payment” wich gives me alot of extra work and alot of customers who will not 
   accept that ..
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## Tags

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 * [paypal express](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/paypal-express/)

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 * Last reply from: [letsgrowdk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/letsgrowdk/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-paypal-gateway-error/)
 * Status: not resolved