PayPal Checkout Confusing Customers
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I’ve noticed some (mostly older) customers are launching PayPal Checkout from a product or basket page, confirming the order with PayPal before being sent back to my Checkout page… but they do not realise they need to click Pay for Order on the Checkout page to complete their puchase.
Websites like Etsy get round this by adding a message at the top of their checkout page for PayPal Checkout customers – is this possible to do in WooCommerce?
The “Now complete your order” message should only display for those arriving at the checkout page from PayPal express.
Many thanks in advance!
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Hey there!
Could you please share a copy of your site’s System Status? You can find it via WooCommerce > Status.
Select “Get system report” and then “Copy for support”.? Once you’ve done that, paste it here in your response.System status:
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Thanks for that!
What I’d suggest doing is on the checkout page, from the admin side, adding in a message letting the customer know they need to click Pay for Order. Adding it in this way won’t make it specific for people using PayPal Checkout – if you’d like to make it specific to PayPal checkout, that would need to be a theme customization
We haven’t heard back from you in a while, so I’m going to mark this as resolved – if you have any further questions, you can start a new thread.
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