Migrate from built-in PayPal Standard

Hello @webdados

Let me try to answer your questions:
– Replacement: PayPal is replacing both the Checkout and Standard plugin with PayPal Payments. The PayPal Checkout plugin will remain available until around March next year.
– Phase-out: The standard PayPal Standard gateway has already been removed from the plugin options, but can be returned by re-enabling the gateway with this filter if you want to continue to use it in a new shop:
add_filter( 'woocommerce_should_load_paypal_standard', '__return_true' );
(Official details here: https://developer.woocommerce.com/2021/07/12/developer-advisory-paypal-standard-will-be-hidden-on-new-installs/)
– Subscriptions: Currently, we are seeing some merchants having issues with subscriptions because they require the vaulting option to function and we have identified an issue where the token cannot be found for existing users; which voids the next payment. You can find some of these threads in the .org forum and I advise you to follow one, so you will be updated about the status of the fix.
Keep an eye on the development of our team’s solution for this issue. If you do choose to try our new plugin, be sure to test this first on a staging website (even though I am not sure this issue would show up very quickly).

Hopefully, this answers all your questions. Let me know if you have anything else.

Kind regards,
Joost

If you do choose to try our new plugin, be sure to test this first on a staging website (even though I am not sure this issue would show up very quickly).

This is not easily done because there would be no record of previous subscriptions. I could create a one-day subscription with the standard gateway, then disable it and enable the new plugin and wait for the renewal, but that could easily work perfectly with one subscription and then not work at all with the currently 411 active subscriptions I have on my website.
As you said:

some merchants having issues with subscriptions

and

I am not sure this issue would show up very quickly

.

Being that this new plugin is replacing your two previous PayPal solutions (built-in and the Checkout plugin) and that WooCommerce Subscriptions is advertised as supported in all three of them, and that the WooCommerce Subscriptions is also sold under the WooCommerce official umbrella, I really think you should guarantee that the migration is done flawlessly and put your efforts on solving this

issue where the token cannot be found for existing users; which voids the next payment

ASAP, as you can break recurring payments for thousands of websites.

I’m going to stick with the built-in standard PayPal gateway while you can’t guarantee a smooth transition.

Can you please link one of the threads where you’re sure updates will be posted on this?

Hello @webdados

I understand your hesitation. The best place to track issues and get notified about updates would be here: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce-paypal-payments/issues

Kind regards,
Joost