Payment Gateway for PayPal Pro & PayPal Checkout for WooCommerce

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 47% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ Gabor Lippert

   4.8y ago

   Honestly, I just don’t understand the positive reviews on this plugin. I have thoroughly tested it, and essential features don’t work with the plugin. 1. Refunds initiated from a WooCommerce order don’t work at all (they’re don’t even recognized on PayPal side). 2. There’s no detailed order information (item listing with SKU, item name, price and quantity info) on PayPal side, only an order number. 3. Shipping, tax and discount costs are not displayed on PayPal side (displays zero for each item instead of the actual value). 4. Testing (sandbox) feature has practically no documentation, and the developer’s answer to related support requests is something like “sandbox configuration is usually very tricky, have you tested with live purchases?“. I’ve lost tons of money in one of my projects because of the issues with this plugin, and I certainly will discourage everyone from using it. This topic was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by Gabor Lippert.

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2. ★★★★★ Matt

   6.0y ago

   tested the plugin and it works

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3. ★★★★★ calderwood

   7.0y ago

   WooCommerce charges $80 for a similar plugin. This is a great free plugin for processing payments through PayPal. Very easy setup and works great and integrates with the Woo PP plugins.

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4. ★★★★★ Koundal

   9.7y ago

   Hi While i’m using multi currency in one site woo commerce, then this plugin using this code ‘CURRENCYCODE’ => get_option(‘woocommerce_currency’), which select only Currency Options. So my suggestion is that while there will be new version of this plugin then use this code ‘CURRENCYCODE’ => get_woocommerce_currency(), instead of ‘CURRENCYCODE’ => get_option(‘woocommerce_currency’). So that it will select multi currency. Thanks

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5. ★★★★★ pattimcc

   9.9y ago

   We are hoping to enable “Transparent Redirect” with this plugin. Similar to the setting available in Paypal Pro PayFlow settings: https://docs.woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/paypal-pro-payflow-settings.png Is this possible? We are being told we are not PCI Compliant without this setting. Much thanks!

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6. ★★★★★ w8ivit

   10.1y ago

   As with all good plugins it just works, is easy to install and set up. Great plugin. Great support.

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7. ★★★★★ David Hunter - LAS

   10.1y ago

   Feels like it does nothing at all. Nothing at all. Nothing at all. (Stupid sexy PayPal)

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8. ★★★★★ wpbizcart

   11.4y ago

   Used it on a client’s site to add credit card checkout. The setup was easy and it just worked! Thank you for sharing this neat little extension.

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 2 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-07-18 2K+ → 1K+ down after 2 days in tier
2. 2026-07-16 1K+ → 2K+ up after 48 days in tier
3. 2026-05-29 1K+ → 2K+ up after 2 days in tier
4. 2026-05-27 2K+ → 1K+ down after 534 days in tier
5. 2024-12-09 3K+ → 2K+ down after 320 days in tier
6. 2024-01-24 4K+ → 3K+ down after 324 days in tier
7. 2023-03-06 5K+ → 4K+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• WooCommerce PayPal Payments 800K+ installs · 2.9★ · 3 shared tags B
• WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway 700K+ installs · 3.1★ · 2 shared tags B
• Mollie Payments for WooCommerce 100K+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags B
• WooCommerce Square 80K+ installs · 2.2★ · 2 shared tags B
• WooCommerce Payfast Gateway 30K+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags B
• Payment Gateway for PayPal on WooCommerce 10K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A

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Payment Gateway for PayPal Pro & PayPal Checkout for WooCommerce: 1K+ active installs, 4.1★ (9 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/woocommerce-paypal-pro-payment-gateway