Paid Memberships Pro is a PayPal Partner and integrates with several PayPal payment processing options. Adding PayPal as an additional payment option to your checkout page gives your customers a faster way to pay. More payment options means more sales.
PayPal: Benefit From a Leader in Payments
Add credibility and trust to your site when you add PayPal. Set-up is easy, processing costs are low, and PayPal gives you access to over 100 million active online buyers who look for the PayPal way to pay! Millions of successful retailers add PayPal to streamline checkout and help boost sales.
Note: Please check with PayPal to see if the gateway is offered in your country/region.
Compare PayPal Gateway Options for Paid Memberships Pro
| PayPal Express | PayPal Standard | PayPal Payflow Pro | |
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| Setup Guide | Setup Guide | Setup Guide | |
| Gateway Info | Gateway Info | Gateway Info | |
| Checkout Location | Checkout at PayPal | Checkout at PayPal | Onsite Checkout (SSL required) Can optionally offer Checkout at PayPal |
| PayPal Account Required? | One-time Payment: Required based on Customer’s Location Recurring Payment: Required | One-time Payment: Not Required Recurring Payment: Required | Not Required (One-Time Payment or Recurring) |
| Membership Level Applied | Immediately at Checkout | When IPN Posts (Unknown delay) | Immediately at Checkout |
| PMPro Payment Settings Needed |
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| Setup Guide | Setup Guide | Setup Guide |
Offer PayPal Express as an option at checkout
Easily add PayPal Express in addition to your primary integrated processor, such as Stripe or Authorize.net.
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PayPal Sandbox/Testing Mode
To test a PayPal checkout for (PayPal Express, and PayPal Standard), you will need to set up a PayPal Developer account. If you already have a PayPal Developer account, log in to that account via the link above before running a test checkout.
- Log in to your PayPal Developer account.
- Create Sandbox Test Accounts per PayPal’s documentation.
- Once you have a testing account created, navigate to the dots (…) and select View / Edit Account > API Credentials
- Navigate to the Memberships > Payment Settings page of your WordPress site.
- Set your “Payment Gateway” to the PayPal option you would like to use.
- Set the “Gateway Environment” to “Sandbox/Testing”.
- Configure your PayPal “NVP/SOAP Sandbox API Credentials” in Payment Settings.
- Save settings.
After saving the settings, log out or browse to your membership levels page in incognito mode to test checkout for a paid level. You must use a Sandbox Test Account as set up in your PayPal Developer account in order to run the test.
For more information, visit PayPal’s Sandbox Testing Guide.
PayPal Payflow Sandbox/Testing mode
The outstanding gateway in the mix here is our PayPal Payflow integration. In our experience, the only way to set up PayPal Payflow in a “test” mode is to create a totally separate/unique Payflow account and keep it in “trial” mode. PayPal offers this documentation page on how to set up and test hosted pages with the Payflow Gateway? that would be the best starting point if you need to run test transactions for Payflow.
Looking to change payment gateways on your live PMPro membership site? We have a guide on switching payment gateways without affecting your existing customers.
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