How to Enable PayPal Checkout in Weebly?

After bought by Square, the primary focus of Weebly was shifted to building ecommerce stores rather than content websites. Integrating with a payment processor is one of the complicated parts of running an online store. Weebly makes it simple and offers multiple options depending upon your plan. This article explains how to enable PayPal checkout along with other customizing options.

Weebly Checkout Options

Currently, the following three checkout options are offered by Weebly. PayPal is available ONLY for Weebly Performance plan users.

• Square
• Stripe
• PayPal

Earlier there were options to directly accept credit cards and use Authorize.Net which were removed now. Customers wanted to use credit card need to go through one of the above checkout processes to use the card linked with the payment method. Weebly does not collect or store card information as the processing is done from PayPal / Stripe / Square.

Enable PayPal Checkout in Weebly

Among all, PayPal is the preferred payment system for online store owners due to the ease of use and the variety of currencies accepted.

• Login to your Weebly account and select the site on your dashboard.
• Expand “Settings” menu on the left sidebar and select “checkout” option.
• You will see the Square, Stripe and PayPal checkout options.
• Click on the “Connect” button under PayPal section.

• You will be shown with a pop-up for connecting your PayPal account with Block Inc. which is the payment setup for Weebly.
• Enter you PayPal id in the email box, choose the country from the dropdown and click on the “Next” button.
• On the next screen, login with your PayPal password.

• Now, you can see your PayPal id is be connected as a checkout option in Weebly.

Though connecting is free, you need PayPal Business account for collecting payment from customers.

Advanced Checkout Experience Settings

Once PayPal is connected, you will see an “Update” notification on top of the page showing advanced checkout settings are enabled on bottom of that page. Scroll down to bottom of the “Checkout” settings page to find “Checkout experience” section is added. Click on the edit button against each option to customize the corresponding setting.

• Tipping – enable this option to allow customers to add tip when pickup or delivery of the order.
• Customer inputs – this section allows customers to add note, opt-in from marketing emails, collect address and creating account on your site.
• Story Policies – add shipping and return policy for your store. You can add text as well as link to a page on your site.
• Advanced settings – select the checkout mode as “Add to cart” or “Buy now” and the applicable fulfillment method for your store.

Changing Weebly Store Currency

Your store currency will be automatically set as per the country you have selected when connecting PayPal account and hence your store currency and PayPal currency are the same. Users will be taken to PayPal website for payment during the checkout process and the amount will be directly credited into your PayPal id configured in Weebly settings.

You can also change the country and currency before connecting to PayPal.

• On the “Settings > Checkout” page, scroll down to bottom and click the “Change” link.
• It will show a “Change currency” pop-up, select your currency from the dropdown.
• Click “Save” button to apply the changes.

Once PayPal is connected, change currency link will disappear as the store will use PayPal setup. You can see your store currency in the “Price” box when creating a product item.

Transaction Fee for PayPal

Customers purchasing items from your site can pay through their PayPal balance or using the linked credit card with PayPal account. Each transaction will cost a commission of 3.49% of paid amount and a fixed fee of $0.49. Let’s say, a customer purchase a digital product with $100 price.

• Product price = $100
• PayPal Commission = 100 * 3.49 / 100 = $3.49
• Fixed fee = $0.49
• Net payment = 100 – 3.49 – 0.49 = $96.02

However, PayPal fees change based on your country and you may also need to pay currency conversion and bank withdrawal fees. For example, Indian PayPal account holders can’t keep the payment in balance and the amount will be automatically settled to bank account. This means an additional currency conversion and bank withdrawal fees are involved. For Square and Strip, the fee is 2.9% for transaction and 30 cents as fixed which is much lower than PayPal fee. So, make sure to check the transaction, fixed, withdrawal and currency conversion fees paid to PayPal before connecting to Weebly store.

You can learn more about PayPal guide and PayPal China guide to understand the process and fees involved.

Remove or Delete PayPal from Weebly Account

You can disconnect the integration any time later by simply clicking on on the “Disconnect” link on “Settings > Checkout” page. However, once connected, your PayPal account will be associated with your Weebly account level which means all sites under your account will have this association. Follow the below steps to remove the PayPal association:

• When you are in Weebly dashboard, click the site name showing on top right corner.
• Select “Account Settings” menu from the list.

• Navigate to the section “External Accounts” tab.
• You will see the current PayPal id will show with an “App Name” as “Merchant Account”.
• Click on “Remove Authorization” minus icon showing against your PayPal email to delete the existing association from your Weebly account.

 FAQ On Connecting PayPal with Weebly

Below are some of the questions to summarize the setup: