PayPal Checkout integration

Last Modified on 27/03/2025 10:58 am GMT

PayPal Checkout provides a seamless payment experience by enabling customers to complete transactions in a pop-up window, eliminating the need for redirection to PayPal’s website. This ensures a faster and more convenient checkout process for your customers.

You can read more about PayPal checkout here: 

PayPal Checkout Overview - https://developer.paypal.com/studio/checkout/standard
How PayPal Checkout Works - https://developer.paypal.com/studio/checkout/standard/getstarted#how-pp-checkout-works

Enabling PayPal Checkout on your WebStore

Steps: 

1. To generate credentials for the PayPal Checkout integration, log into your PayPal Business account.

2. Go to the Developer Dashboard: https://developer.paypal.com/dashboard/

3. Click your user in the top right, and in the menu, click Dashboard.

4. Click Apps & Credentials from the menu on top, or to the left of the page.

5. You should see a toggle between Sandbox and Live. Make sure you click Live.

6. Under a table for REST API Apps, click the Create App button.

7. Enter a name for your App.

8. Pick Merchant as an App Type. If there's a dropdown for Region, you should be able to keep Region unselected.

9. Once that is complete, it should now display a Client ID and a Secret Key.

10. Copy these two values. 

11. In WebStore Manager, under Orders> Payment Processor Set-up, select PayPal Checkout from the dropdown list. 

12. Click the Configure button.

13. Check the Enable PayPal Checkout box.

14. Paste the App Client ID and App Secret into the integration. 

15. Select a Default Tender and Currency, and save changes.

Note, if you previously used another PayPal integration, it needs to be disabled first.

It is recommended that you run a test transaction after enabling the new payment gateway and process your order at the POS.

Enabling PayPal Express Checkout

For customers using Next-Gen templates, the new PayPal Checkout includes an option to enable Express Checkout, allowing it to appear on the first step of the checkout process. 

Steps: 

1. In WebStore Manager, under Orders> Payment Processor Set-up, select PayPal Checkout from the dropdown list. 

12. Enable the (Only for Next-Gen stores) Enable one-click express checkout for applicable stores option. 

13. Save changes. 



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