What Paypal wants is controlling our customer data

  • Through direct PayPal popup payment, customer data can’t be saved properly on our own website. Customer notes can’t be saved to our own website.

    The most valuable things are transferred directly to PayPal, they are trying to become a platform, that controls everything, just like what Amazon or Shopify doing right now.

    The core spirit of independent website is that webmasters have control over everything happened on their own websites. Now these Payment gateways are trying to take control of everything. They want too much beyond what they truly deserve.

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by Snow Bedding.
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  • Thread Starter Snow Bedding

    (@snowbedding)

    WordPress thrived on being highly customizable and independent, but now, new websites have no control of the important Payment gateway, they have no choice but to use this notorious big button new PayPal payment, the traditional well-working standard PayPal payment gateway is HIDDEN!?? What a joke!

    Is this still WordPress? Is this still independent website? We have no choice of our Payment gateway?

    Please don’t make WordPress another Platform controlled by some big commercial company, WordPress should be an open-source, non-profit project.

    These are voice from a 15-year-old WordPress loyal user.

    Don’t let me down, don’t let the millions of WordPress users down.

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by Snow Bedding.
    Plugin Support Syde Niklas

    (@niklasinpsyde)

    Hi @snowbedding,

    Thanks for providing feedback.

    Would you mind clarifying what exactly it is that you dislike about this plugin, in particular?
    PayPal Payments integrates the latest PayPal features (which includes the PayPal smart buttons) and offers a high level of customizability.
    But I’m not sure, I understand what you mean by:

    Customer notes can’t be saved to our own website.

    Are you using any custom checkout fields that you would like to send to PayPal?

    […] they have no choice but to use this notorious big button new PayPal payment […]

    There is always a choice and nobody is forcing you to use PayPal Payments, in particular. The old PayPal Standard integration from the WooCommerce core has been disabled for new installations, but it can still be re-enabled with a filter. It technically still works, but is deprecated and no longer supported.

    Is this still WordPress? Is this still independent website? We have no choice of our Payment gateway?

    If you are not happy with the way PayPal Payments works, there are also at least a handful of alternative free & open source PayPal integrations for WooCommerce with varying feature sets. So I’d argue there is a healthy amount of possible options.

    In any case, the team would be happy to assist if there are any questions regarding the integration: https://woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-paypal-payments/#get-help

    Kind regards,
    Niklas

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