SetExpressCheckout Paypal API: Using “physical” category for digital goods

Question

We are in the process of implementing Paypal at our market place where users can book events that cost about 25-80$. During the checkout, we get the error You are not signed up to accept payment for digitally delivered goods which obviously indicates that we have to be activated for digital goods.

My question is, since the process of being activated seems rather complicated (we have to fill out several pages of a form): What are the implications of using ITEMCATEGORY= Physical instead of Digital? Of course, users shouldn't need to provide a shipping address, and we don't need micro transactions smaller than 5$. Apart from these, is there anything that might stop us from just using the physical category?

Answer 1

Simple answer is no. It doesn't sound to me like you need digital goods enabled at all.

In fact, I'd just leave that parameter out altogether and let it use the default (which would be physical anyway.) You can still send NOSHIPPING=true so they don't have to mess with any of that, but again, doesn't sound like you need to hassle with itemcategory at all.