It sounds like you’ve followed the instructions, but now you have some doubts that it will work?

You don’t say, but have you tested it to check if it works as you expect?

If you haven’t tested it yet, I would suggest enabling Debug Log under the PayPal settings in WooCommerce, and completing a transaction using either your live or your sandbox PayPal credentials.

Let us know the results, and if there’s anything in your Debug Log to suggest it doesn’t follow your chose settings, include that with your reply. Also, include a System Status Report? To find it, go to WooCommerce ? Status, select “Get system report” and then “Copy for support”.?

Thanks for trying to help me ??

To answer you, my shop hasn’t been tested yet.
The Sandbox account and my products, both are not set up yet. I’ll have to learn how to do these two first. If you don’t mind, it may take me some time to come back with the result you suggested (forgive me for being a novice). Do you mind to help me confirm one thing for now?

My question; if I’d followed and executed the steps thoroughly given by WooCommerce (setting up Paypal Standard) – should this alone be enough? I’m saying, am I right that there’s no more thing I need to set up/configure which otherwise I believe should be mentioned by WooCommerce setup guide?

This is the link of instruction from WC that I’d followed: https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/paypal-standard/
To be specific, if you see the article – I’d set up for Advanced Options, API Credentials, Paypal IPN URL, Auto-Return (and also Paypal identity token) – all based on the instruction given. I have done what they told me to configure on my Paypal account regarding those details mentioned. After this setup, I thought I could start Authorizing payments and capture later once my shop is open – but I’m not sure what to think after encountering this Paypal article (authorize and capture payments integration guide; https://developer.paypal.com/docs/integration/direct/payments/authorize-and-capture-payments/#

Do I really need to do some integration thing like this Paypal article mentions so I can authorize and capture payment when my WooCommerce shop is open? Thanks!

Regarding “authorize” and “capture” – if you authorize a payment, funds are not actually debited from your customer, but merely reserved for a while. If authorized funds are not captured within a certain widow (7 days or so to be safe), the authorization is released, and your customer can spend the funds again.

It sounds like you want to use “authorize” like one might use a deposit, but it’s not recommended to use it in this way, because authorization is not money in your pocket.

If you want to sell products before you actually have those products, then there are different approaches. Enabling backorders is built-in to WooCommerce and is one approach, as are extensions like WooCommerce Waitlist, WooCommerce Deposits, and WooCommerce Pre-Orders.