Less offensive checkout link

Hi @jlev00

Integrations that offer a “Proceed to Paypal” button like the old PayPal Standard integration mostly still work on a technical level, but are no longer supported or developed because they do not offer the buyer experience PayPal is currently looking for.

PayPal is aiming for a uniform checkout experience across all platforms with the use of the smart buttons.
If you want to provide the latest PayPal features, there is no way around the smart buttons, whichever integration you are using.

That being said, there are multiple customization options, e.g. for the button color, shape, or label. It is also possible to disable every individual button (except the PayPal smart button when enabled). Certain attributes like the button size could also be controlled via CSS, but the button itself cannot be styled via CSS as it is an iframe loaded from the PayPal servers. How it looks also depends on your theme, but there are many options to adjust the button appearance to suit your site.

We’d be happy to provide some more guidance if you could tell us more about what you are looking for and provide a link to your site, so we can better understand how it currently looks like on your end.
Thanks!

Kind regards,
Niklas

Hi Niklas – thank you for your reply.

All I want is the option for a text button (styled by my Woocommerce theme) like the existing “Paypal Standard” plugin.

The “What is Paypal?” link from the existing plugin is also commonly clicked by customers, but I don’t really care if you migrate this across or not.

Hi @jlev00

All I want is the option for a text button (styled by my Woocommerce theme) like the existing “Paypal Standard” plugin.

We understand your desire for a minimalist payment experience, and we apologize for any inconvenience. However, PayPal has made a company-wide decision to unify the payment experience by using the PayPal smart buttons and popup window payment flow. This change is in line with their push for a consistent payment experience for buyers across all integrations.

Unfortunately, it is not possible to disable the PayPal smart buttons in the official PayPal integration. But there are different styling options for color, shape or labels that give you a certain level of control.
However, we suggest exploring third-party PayPal integrations that may provide the desired payment experience of forwarding the buyer directly to the PayPal website with a regular button, like PayPal Standard does it.

The “What is Paypal?” link from the existing plugin is also commonly clicked by customers, but I don’t really care if you migrate this across or not.

There will soon be changes to how the payment gateway name/title/icons are displayed on the Checkout page, but adding something like the “What is Paypal?” link is possible with a custom filter.

It’s not necessarily the best way to do it as the link is hard-coded, but I created a small example filter for you to achieve this here:

This filter would need to be added to the functions.php file of your active (child) theme.

We hope for your understanding that we currently cannot provide a feature to disable the smart buttons and that the provided information still helps you out.
Thanks!

Kind regards,
Niklas

That is exactly what I am looking for – thank you!

@niklasinpsyde is there a way to still use the buttons but make them smaller??

My client is upgrading to the new plugin from PayPal Standard, but the buttons are huge on the product / checkout pages. I understand you can customise the shape / layout, which is grand, but realistically he’d want something much smaller (design still OK!).

See link for example image:
Customise buttons

Realistically he would prefer to use the ‘Pay in 3’ message, but we have found that it is not displaying, as per this topic but this may be down to the upgrade from the legacy plugin, so not sure what the resolution for this might be yet, and we want to enable the buttons as a stop-gap.

@jlev00 Thanks! Don’t hesitate to let us know when there is anything else we can help with. The team is looking into improving the way the PayPal gateway is presented on the Checkout page with a future update and will consider your feedback for future changes.

@clnetbop As the buttons are dynamically rendered in the container, their width can be influenced by resizing the div via CSS:

.product, .checkout #ppc-button-ppcp-gateway {
	width: 300px
}

That being said, we prefer when everyone creates a thread just for themselves, so the team can assist you as quickly as possible without notifying other users about unrelated questions. So, for more details, please create a separate thread. Thanks!

Kind regards,
Niklas