Enabling PayPal Checkout

PayPal Checkout adds PayPal as a payment method in your checkout. When the customer chooses PayPal as the payment option, they will click on the PayPal button which will create a modal dialog box enabling the customer to login to their PayPal account, or pay by credit card as a guest. From their PayPal account, the customer may also be presented with the option to choose Pay In 4 if they wish to make the purchase using PayPal's "buy now, pay later" scheme.

Once the payment has been confirmed from within PayPal, the dialog box is dismissed and the checkout continues by creating and processing the order. The order will be marked as paid, and the customer will receive an order notification email.

Note, this behaviour differs from the earlier PayPal payment methods such as Website Payments Standard, where a payment could be abandoned leaving an unpaid order in the system. PayPal Checkout, instead, only creates an order once payment has been confirmed by the customer.

In order to use PayPal Checkout, you will need to have a PayPal Business account. If you don't have a PayPal Business account, click here to sign up for a PayPal account, and then return to this page.

Part 1 - Configure your PayPal Account

When you've set up your PayPal account, follow the steps below to configure access to your PayPal account.

Include Shipping charges from your store

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  Configure PayPal Shipping

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  Configure PayPal Shipping

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  Allow Shipping Override

You need to configure PayPal to include the shipping charges that are calculated by your store.

1. Log in to manage your PayPal account
2. Click on "Account settings" under Settings icon in the top menu.
3. Click on "Shipping" under "Solutions & Services".
4. In the "Shipping calculations" area, click "Update".
5. Tick the box that says "Click here to allow transaction-based postage values to override the profile postage settings listed above (if profile settings are enabled)"
6. Click the "Save" button

Accept payments from customers without a PayPal account

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  Configure PayPal Website Preferences

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  Enable PayPal Account Optional

You can allow your customer to make payments using PayPal even if they don't have their own PayPal account. Unfortunately all Paypal transactions processed in this method are not protected by PayPal's seller protection... so there is a risk of fraudulent transactions.

1. Log in to manage your PayPal account
2. Click on "Account settings" under Settings icon in the top menu.
3. Click on "Website payments" under "Solutions and Services".
4. Click on "Update" under "Website preferences".
5. Select the option that enables "PayPal Account Optional"
6. Click the "Save" button

Automatic Return at the end of the transaction

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  Configure PayPal Website Preferences

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  Enable Auto Return

Once a customer has made their payment using PayPal, a confirmation message is displayed and the customer is prompted to click a link to return to your store. If the customer does not click on this link, then any tracking code that you have installed will not be triggered and your site statistics may not correctly reflect the actual number of orders that have been processed.

You should enable the "Auto Return" feature in PayPal so that the customer is automatically redirected back to your store once the transaction has been completed.

1. Log in to manage your PayPal account
2. Click on "Account settings" under Settings icon in the top menu.
3. Click on "Website payments" under "Solutions & Services".
4. Click "Update" on "Website preferences".
5. Select the option that enables "Auto Return"
6. Enter your store's web address as the "Return URL". For example, http://mystore.spiffystores.com.

Encrypted website payments

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  Turn off encrypted payments

The encrypted website payments option is only applicable when you use PayPal Payment Buttons. This payment method is not applicable to your Spiffy Store, as we use a direct, fully-encrypted method of connecting to PayPal which is not related to PayPal Payment Buttons. This means that you should set the Block non-encrypted website payment option to Off.

1. Log in to manage your PayPal account
2. Click on "Account settings" under Settings icon in the top menu.
3. Click on "Website payments" under "Solutions & Services".
4. Click "Update" on "Website preferences".
5. Scroll down to "Encrypted website payments".
6. Select "Off" for the "Block non-encrypted website payment" option.