Customize the Pay Later messaging layout on WooCommerce

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Last updated: Sept 23rd, 5:55pm

Promote PayPal Pay Later offers using messaging on your WooCommerce store.

PayPal offers short-term, interest-free payments and other special financing options that buyers can use to buy now and pay later. You get paid up-front, and there are no additional costs.

Pay Later messaging includes Pay in 3, which UK buyers can use to pay for purchases of £30 to £2,000 in three, interest-free payments.

Know before you begin

Before you begin, learn more about Pay Later offers.

Pay Later messaging is enabled for new merchants. If you're an existing merchant, enable the messaging.

UK-based consumers are eligible for Pay Later offers across most of our integrations. As a merchant, you're eligible to promote Pay in 3 if you are a UK-based PayPal merchant with a UK-legal business entity, a UK-facing website, and a one-time payment integration. At this time, promoting Pay Later offers is not available on PayPal vaulted payments or billing agreement integrations.

Pay later offers also follow the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, which governs the usage of PayPal and prohibits the use of PayPal and pay later offers for certain types of transactions, such as real money gaming and firearms.

Please note that while messaging can be displayed on your website to help promote Pay Later offers to your customers, no additional content, wording, marketing, or other material should be created by you to encourage use of this product. PayPal reserves the right to take action in accordance with the User Agreement.

How it works

These are sample pages that have Pay Later messaging enabled for webpages and mobile devices.

Pay Later messaging on a webpage

Example

Pay Later messaging on a mobile device

Example

WooCommerce PayPal Payments

Before you can install WooCommerce PayPal Payments, install the following:

WordPress version 5.3 or higher.

WooCommerce version 3.9 or higher. Activate WooCommerce after the installation.

PHP version 7.1 or higher.

Install WooCommerce PayPal Payments

Select Plugins > Add new.

Search for the WooCommerce PayPal Payments plugin.

Select Install Now and wait until the plugin is installed successfully.

You can activate the plugin by selecting Activate now on the success page. If you want to activate it later, select Plugins > Installed Plugins.

Set up WooCommerce PayPal Payments

Complete the following steps to connect the plugin to your PayPal account.

Select WooCommerce > Settings.

Select the Payments tab.

Select Set Up, or Manage if it’s already active, next to PayPal.

Choose whether to accept Credit Cards by checking the Securely accept all major credit & debit cards on the strength of the PayPal network box.

If selected, choose between Standard Card Processing or Advanced Card Processing.

Select the Activate PayPal button.

Follow the prompts to connect your existing PayPal account or create a new account.

Update the plugin

On the left side of the page, select Plugins.

Select update now.

Activate Pay Later Buttons

After you set up WooCommerce PayPal Payments, you can add a Pay Later button on the following pages:

Checkout

Product pages

Shopping cart

In the WooCommerce admin panel, select the Payments tab.

Select Manage next to your module.

Select the Pay Later tab.

Navigate to Pay Later Button.

Select the checkbox next to Enable/Disable.

Select the locations where Pay Later buttons should appear.

Select Save Changes.

Customize the messaging layout

After you set up WooCommerce PayPal Payments, you can customize the messaging layout at the following locations:

Checkout

Product pages

Shopping cart

Checkout,Messaging

In the WooCommerce admin panel, select the Payments tab.

Select Manage next to your module.

Select the Pay Later tab.

Navigate to Pay Later Messaging.

Check the Enable/Disable checkbox.

In the Pay Later Messaging Locations box, select the locations to show Pay Later Messaging: Single Product, Cart, or Checkout.

You may customize the layout, logo, logo position, and text color at all locations, or check the Customize Messaging Per Location checkbox to customize in a specific location.

Select Save Changes.