Misrepresentation Paypal Gate For Cc Is Disabled

Woah slow down @hoopsparent, you are mistaken and your designer is completely wrong.

When you go to paypal to pay, customers click the option to pay without an account and they are able to use a credit card – see this: https://cl.ly/image/2z3A1f0J2p3o

I’m not 100% certain but I think that requires a business or permier paypal account rather than personal one (its free to change account types, if you are a business you should do this anyway).

I’d appreciate if you confirmed the above and updated your review with correct information ??

Thanks

it would be great if this is true BUT when i posted and asked if free woocommerce supported the paypal standard function of credit card payment without paypal account the response I got was you need to pay $99 for that ability. and https://jameskoster.co.uk/ states he works for woocommerce

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/woocommerce-paypal-standard?replies=2#post-4685716

secondly it doesn’t work on my site-https://piedmontboosterstore.org see for yourself. paypal payments does not go to a page on paypal giving you any options to pay with credit card. it goes to this page, WHERE their is no options other than to pay with a paypal account.

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=f7T-_MFSeI1370DXbWwY0FI3igsTw99DIH7n6oAf3hJz6FUVzAV9yIf_Ev8&dispatch=50a222a57771920b6a3d7b606239e4d529b525e0b7e69bf0224adecfb0124e9b61f737ba21b08198c3bf94e94910b98592d3f6a39690aaea

so I look forward to your next response.

What type if paypal account is it then? Probably not business?

1) Personal – Your client can not pay you by credit card. They can only pay your via PayPal transfer of funds from their own PayPal account. When trying to pay your invoice online, they will forced to sign up for a PayPal account even though they think they can pay by credit card.

PayPal Personal accounts can be upgraded to Premiere/Business for free from within your PayPal account. There is an “Upgrade” button on your My Account page next to your name.

2) Premiere – You can accept credit cards and PayPal transfers

3) Business – You can accept credit cards and PayPal transfers

it is a paypal business standard account.

What country is the account in?

https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/cps/general/OptionalAccount-outside

To turn the feature on or off, simply log in to PayPal, go to Profile, click ‘Website Payment Preferences’ under the Selling Preferences column and tick the yes/no box under PayPal Account Optional.

*This feature is available to Premier and Business account holders only. It is not currently available for items purchased directly on eBay.co.uk.

your answer is not a solution nor is it accurate.

the option to pay with a credit card WITHOUT a paypal account is feature available in the standard paypal business account, it is not a feature you turn on or off it comes as part of the functionality of the account.

i just posted a post to my site piedmonthighboosters.org in which i use a paypal button created from my account for donations and it works fine. goes to our account allows for payments with a credit card without a paypal account and allows for payment with a paypal account. see link https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=ndVcBEGXvFmL-6wIIXCldkLeUIZh445U1AAYrKggko0KoNkRrzDLybAl7wK&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8d0038486cd0d9a2f30f3a21df7b0d0cee

I MADE no changes to the paypal account so it’s NOT paypal.

so ONCE again I state it is WOO Commerce disabling this functionality in the free version of woo commerce. and the fact that you show in your documentation on wordpress and on your website is FALSE.

Did you read the page at https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/cps/general/OptionalAccount-outside

Edited

esmi not sure what you are trying to do here you sent a link to posts that I am sending how is this helpful?

@hoopsparent the pay links you are giving me are no good, that session is specific to you.

I’m not really sure why you are stating my answers are not accurate though. Did you even try?

Here is a screenshot from my PayPal business account: https://cl.ly/image/3t0n1b311j2O

The option exists.

i did try and the option was already selected and i called paypal and was online for 30 mins and they state the account is setup correct it is where the shopping cart has setup the direction to paypal.

and since the direct paypal buttons work it has to be woocommerce.

since the links only work for my sessions, then try for yourself. woocommerce is blocking the functionality.

Your checkout requires an account so I cannot try it.

I’ll say it one more time though – nothing blocks the functionality. Check the code if you don’t believe me, its all open source. And since it works for all of my accounts, and others which I’ve seen in action theres not much more I can say if you won’t take my word for it.

Thanks

i turned off the account requirement.

and both paypal and i can’t make it work. so until it works on my site don’t know what to believe.

Hi all,
@mike, you can just put in any dummy password to auto create an account on the website, which I did. the situation is indeed as @hoops states, there’s no direct way on the screen to select payment via cc without having a paypal account.

That said, I believe that @mike has the preponderance of evidence on his side. Imagine how many thousands of complaints there would have been to date, if what @hoops asserts is actually true.

So @hoops, assume for a moment that your experience is an anomaly due to a setup issue – either a paypal shop config setup, or a paypal account setup issue.

I’m still getting the “you must be logged in” message on https://piedmontboosterstore.org/checkout/.

Correct URL?

Can you take a screenshot of your paypal settings in woocommerce and post it here?

More info with some replies from PP staff: https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Merchant-services-Archive/Paypal-account-optional/td-p/233270

One note on their, you need to ensure your business/premier account is verified and has a verified email address too.