WooCommerce PayPal Standard Setup Tutorial

In this WooCommerce tutorial, we will be reviewing the Paypal Standard Setup

PayPal Standard brings the client to PayPal’s secure site from your website to complete the payment procedure for their product. This article will provide complete guidelines, including:

• Prerequisites
• Steps for configuration
• Frequently asked questions
• Conflicts

Prerequisites

There are some requirements for PayPal Standards and these are:

Business PayPal Account

You have to visit PayPal.com and sign up if you are a new user. If you already registered as a PayPal business account, then your good to go. If you registered for a personal account, you could convert it to a business PayPal account. This procedure is free of cost.

Figure 1 PayPal accounts

Steps for setup and configuration

To set up and configure PayPal Standard, the following steps have to follow:

Step 1: Open WooCommerce then click on Settings and then select Payments

WooCommerce > Settings à Payments

Note: In the past, preceding to WooCommerce, “Payments” ‘called Checkout.

Step 2: For the selection of PayPal, you have to switch to the Enabled/ Disable checkbox and check to mark the Enable PayPal Standard.

Step 3: For further proceeding, select Set Up, that will direct you to the Pay Pal Standard Settings.

Step 4: Next, you have to provide an email address for your PayPal account, provide email account in the required field, and that is the utmost essential part of configuration formerly making payments. Your PayPal email and the email that you have already been provided for your business account should be the same.

Figure 2 PayPal Standards

Advanced Setting:

Figure 3 PayPal Advanced Setting

Now you have to configure Advanced Options settings. You have to provide information that is required in an advanced setting. Following are the steps that are required for the Advanced Option.

Step 5: If you want to keep testing your Checkout process during store development, you have to check Enable PayPal Sandbox. No money will be charged at that time, but if you want to practice Sandbox mode, for this usage, through PayPal Sandbox you have to create different Sandbox account.

Step 6: If you want to use Debug log, that can be useful during development, you might need to create a wc-logs folder and then you have to set permissions to make it writable. Debug log would also be turned on and could be helpful during the development. These type of wc-logs are easily available in WooCommerce Logs.

• Go to the WooCommerce then click on System Status and then open Logs.

WooCommerce > System Status > Logs

Step 7: To get IPN Email Notifications, check the respective box. It is an optional setting, whenever you will receive a payment issue or cancel a refund, you will get the Instant Payment Notifications.

Step 8: Now you have to provide an email for a receiver, it should be same as you have provided in your PayPal account.

Step 9:?If you have registered for the Data Transfer option you can get the PayPal identity token that may verify payments if there any issues in Instant Pin Notifications (IPN).

Step 10:?If you have multiple stores provide an Invoice Prefix. The default prefix to denote WooCommerce transactions is WC.

Step 11:?There are two different ways of shipping and these are given below:

?Forward Shipping:

Open WooCommerce and direct all shipping details to PayPal, it will form labels in its place of generating bills.

Address Override Option:

This setting can cause errors as PayPal verifies addresses, but somehow it can be helpful in possession address information for being reformed.

Step 12:?To Capture funds immediately or only *Authorize go for Payment Action.

Note: keep it in your mind, once you proceed to authorize the order and its status is changed from processing to complete, funds are automatically being captured till you have been using your PayPal credentials under WooCommerce. It will no longer be a manual process.

• Open WooCommerce then click Settings, then click Payments and then open PayPal.

WooCommerce > Settings > Payments > PayPal.

Step 13:?You can customize the pages of your PayPal account by using Page Style.

Step 14:?To display an image of 150x50 on PayPal checkout pages you can use the image URL.

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