WooCommerce PayPal Payments

Woocommerce PayPal Payments & Fastlane

 

WooCommerce PayPal Payments is a full-stack solution that offers powerful and flexible payment processing capabilities. Set up quickly. Enable payment acceptance easily. Offer your customers a seamless checkout experience and get paid quickly.

WooCommerce PayPal Payments is the only payments extension that includes PayPal, Pay Later, Vaulting, advanced credit and debit card processing, and local payment methods.

By integrating with WooCommerce PayPal Payments, you can:

 

• Offer full-stack payment processing – the choice of payment methods for your customers.
• Smart payment buttons – present relevant payment methods to your customers in specific markets. With one integration, sellers can automatically offer more payment method options as they become available.
• Fully customizable card fields for Advanced Card Payments.
• Use the latest PayPal features in a single integration, including PayPal Pay Later.

Requirements

To install WooCommerce PayPal Payments, you need:

• WordPress Version 5.3 or newer (installed)
• WooCommerce Version 3.9 or newer (installed and activated)
• PHP Version 7.2 or newer
• PayPal business or personal account

Installation

1. Log in to WordPress Admin.
2. Go to Plugins > Add New.
3. Search for the WooCommerce PayPal Payments plugin.
4. Click on Install Now and wait until the plugin is installed successfully.
5. You can activate the plugin immediately by clicking on Activate now on the success page. If you want to activate it later, you can do so via Plugins >Installed Plugins.

 

Connect PayPal Account

Once the WooCommerce PayPal Payments plugin has been installed and activated, it needs to be connected to your PayPal account.

The integrated onboarding connects a PayPal account via login credentials (email and password) without the need for API credentials. The onboarding automatically creates a new REST application in the PayPal developer site, registers the webhooks, and enables relevant features such as Vaulting. The account can also be connected manually, but the onboarding process is the preferred option as it automatically configures the REST App and credentials.

 

 

 

Click on Connection Tab to begin the PayPal Onboarding Process

7.  Check Securely accept all major credit & debit cards on the strength of the PayPal network to enable credit & debit card functionality (this can be changed after connecting)

8.  Activate PayPal by clicking the button and following the prompts to connect your live PayPal account. Click Test payments with PayPal Sandbox to test the integration using the PayPal Sandbox. If you don’t have a PayPal account yet, you can create one from the activation window.

 

 

 

9. After completing the connection steps, navigate to the Standard Payments tab and ensure the checkbox next to Enable/Disable is checked.
Configure your desired PayPal button appearance and click Save changes to enable PayPal. By default, the PayPal gateway and smart buttons are enabled on the Checkout, single product, and Cart pages.

 

 

General Integration Configuration

 

Standard Payments

 

To customize the Smart buttons check the box Customize Smart Buttons Per Location in the Standard Payments settings

 

 

• Enable/Disable – Enable the PayPal Gateway checkbox to display PayPal smart buttons in your shop.
• Title – The title for the PayPal gateway the user sees during the checkout process.
• Description – The description the user sees during the checkout process.
• Intent – The intent is to either capture a payment immediately after an order is created or authorize a payment for later capture. When configuring Authorize intent, automatic payment captures can be configured for virtual products or when changing the order status. SET Intent to CAPTURE
• Instant Payments – If you enable this setting, PayPal will be instructed not to allow the buyer to use funding sources that take additional time to complete (e.g., eChecks). Instead, the buyer will be required to use an instant funding source, such as instant transfer, credit/debit card, or Pay Later.
• Brand Name – Control the name of your shop that customers will see during the payment process.
• Landing Page – Type of PayPal page to display in the popup after clicking the button.

• Disable Alternative Payment Methods – All possible funding sources such as Credit Cards, Venmo, or other Alternative Payment Methods will be shown by default for eligible buyers. Disable funding sources with this setting.
• Send checkout billing data to card fields – Using the WooCommerce form data increases convenience for the customers as they don’t have to enter their details twice, but it can cause issues if card details do not match the billing data in the checkout form.
• Create gateway for Standard Card Button – By default, the Debit or Credit Card button is displayed in the PayPal Checkout payment gateway. This setting creates a separate gateway only for the Card button.

 

Advanced Card Processing & Fastlane

 

 

After completing the onboarding process for Advanced Card Payments, follow these steps to navigate to the Advanced Card Processing settings:

1. Go to WooCommerce  > Settings > Payments > PayPal.
2. Click the Advanced Card Processing tab.
3. Check Enable/Disable to activate advanced card features and a separate checkout gateway exclusively for card payments.

 

 

The following settings can be configured for Advanced Card Processing:

• Enable/Disable – Once enabled, the Credit Card option will show up in Checkout.
• Title – This controls the title that the user sees during Checkout.
• Vaulting – Enable Vaulting to save credit and debit cards for future payments and subscription functionality.
• Disable specific credit cards – All possible credit cards will be accepted by default. You have the option to disable certain credit cards.
• Show logo of the following credit cards – Define which credit card logos you want to display for the gateway.
• Contingency for 3D Secure – Select a preferred 3D Secure behavior:
  • No 3D Secure – causes transactions to be denied if 3D Secure is required by the bank of the cardholder.
  • 3D Secure when required – returns a 3D Secure contingency when it is a mandate in the region where you operate.
  • Always trigger 3D Secure – triggers 3D Secure for every transaction, regardless of SCA requirements. Learn more about 3D Secure.

Read Advanced Card Processing – Advanced Credit and Debit Card payments for more information about advanced card payments.

 

Pay Later & Pay Later Messaging

 

Pay Later

 

Pay Later is a feature that enables customers to pay over time while you receive payment upfront, without any additional cost. This feature is available in select locations and consists of the Pay Later button and the Pay Later messaging to promote the Pay Later option to eligible buyers.

The Pay Later tab provides a configuration interface for the Pay Later option, which is only available to customers in eligible countries. In this section, you can enable or disable the Pay Later button and Pay Later messaging and customize their appearance for individual locations.

 

Pay Later Messaging

 

Pay Later messaging lets your buyers know they can buy now and pay later, if they check out with PayPal. Adding messaging to your website can help improve conversion, attract new customers, and increase order values. Pay Later messages are dynamic, enabling you to show your customers their specific Pay Later offer, based on the contents of their shopping cart.

 

By default, the following Pay Later Messaging Locations are available:

• Single Product page
• Cart
• Checkout
• Home
• Shop (includes Search & Product Categories pages)

The messaging can be configured to match your website style with the settings available in the new Pay Later messaging configurator:

 

 

The Pay Later messaging & configurator languages depend on the primary country of the PayPal merchant account.

More details about the requirements & benefits of adding Pay Later messaging to your site can be found in the Pay Later section.