Revision as of 17:39, 7 February 2024

49% of PayPal users abandon their purchases if PayPal isn’t a payment option. WHMCS’s supported payment gateway modules include several options for accepting payments through PayPal, helping you maximize your business and offer the options that your customers want most.

You can enable payment gateways, including the PayPal options below, at Configuration () > Apps & Integrations (in WHMCS 8.6 and later) or Configuration () > System Settings > Payment Gateways (in WHMCS 8.5 and earlier).

PayPal Gateway Comparison

Each PayPal payment gateway includes features to help you accept and manage payments:

Our PayPal Gateways

We support the following PayPal payment gateways and ship them by default for all supported installations:

PayPal Payments

PayPal Payments uses PayPal’s latest secure tokenization system and lets your clients make payments with PayPal Smart Buttons, including credit and debit card transactions. It ensures the security of your customers’ stored payment details with merchant-level vaulting, now available for PayPal merchant accounts in supported countries. It also supports disputes, and you can view your current merchant account balance at Billing > Transactions.

If you enable PayPal Payments, you can also enable PayPal Card Payments (below) to accept credit and debit cards using PayPal Advanced Checkout.

For more information, see PayPal Payments.

PayPal Card Payments

PayPal Card Payments augments the PayPal Payments module to add an unbranded credit and debit card option that uses PayPal Advanced Checkout. You can enable it to visually separate the PayPal Smart Button checkout experience from credit and debit card payments. Like PayPal Payments, it also supports disputes, and you can view your current merchant account balance at Billing > Transactions.

For more information, see PayPal Card Payments.

PayPal Checkout

PayPal Checkout gives your customers a simplified and secure checkout experience, with the option to use Express Checkout to complete the transaction. Express Checkout appears automatically as a payment option for any product that uses a One-Time, Biennial, or Triennial billing cycle.

PayPal Checkout allows you to accept one-time and recurring payments through PayPal (including PayPal Subscriptions), process refunds, and handle disputes from within WHMCS.

For more information, see PayPal Checkout.

PayPal Basic

PayPal Basic allows you to accept one-time and recurring payments through PayPal (including PayPal Subscriptions), process refunds, and handle payment reversals. In WHMCS 8.2 and later, you can view payment gateway balances for PayPal Basic at Billing > Transactions in the WHMCS Admin Area. This lets you check your financial details sooner and stay aware of trends and changes.

For more information, see PayPal Basic.

PayPal Pro Reference Payments

PayPal Pro Reference Payments allows you to store cards with a secure tokenization system for better PCI compliance. It can process one-time and recurring payments and send refunds.

This module does not support adding or updating card data via the Admin Area. Instead, you can do this by paying an invoice on behalf of a client.

For more information, see PayPal Pro Reference Payments.

PayPal Website Payments Pro

PayPal Website Payments Pro allows you to accept one-time and recurring payments with locally-stored credit cards, process refunds, and handle payment reversals.

For more information, see PayPal Website Payments Pro.

PayFlow Pro

Payflow Pro includes one-time and recurring payments with locally-stored credit cards and process refunds. You will need to enable the PayFlow Pro API in order to use this payment gateway.

For more information, see Payflow Pro.