PayPal payments: Default to 'Pay with Credit Card' instead of loggin in with a PayPal Account

Question

I have seen this done before so I know it's possible - when you redirect to a PayPal checkout from your site, paypal presents you with 2 options to make a payment. One is "Login with PayPal Account" and the other one is something like "Don't have a PayPal account? Pay with Credit/Debit Card". By default the second option is collapsed, but I've seen sites where it's uncollapsed by default. How can I achieve this effect?

NB - previous posts suggested that it's done by cookies, and if PayPal detects that you have a PayPal account it will display the first option (login with PayPal). However I've seen other sites that display the 'Credit/Debit' card option uncollapsed even if you've got a paypal account. Do they clear the cookies somehow before redirecting you to PayPal?

Thanks

Answer 1

just add :)

<input type="hidden" name="landing_page" value="billing">

You are redirected to billing page...

Answer 2

You can not set the credit card option to show by default if you are using Website Payments Standard. This is set by cookies. However, if you are using Express Checkout you can set the credit card section to show by default. This is most likely what you have seen on other sites. If you are using Express Checkout, and want to set this all you need to do is passing over the following 2 variables and values in your SetExpressCheckout API call.

SOLUTIONTYPE=Sole

LANDINGPAGE=Billing

You also need to make sure you have PayPal account optional turned on in your PayPal account. This is section is found in your profile.

Answer 3

A little bit late with this one but i recently had the same issue using Express Checkout JS

Managed to resolve this by adding the following to the js object

experience: {
  flow_config: {
     landing_page_type: "billing",
   }
}

Answer 4

I came across from various sites regarding the same ask while I have workaround to achieve this for the time being. :) But your finding resolved my issue, that's cookies cause after I have my workaround applied.

The workaround to default the Paypal payment to Credit/Debit card option is to add the variables on your button such as country=COUNTRY_VALUE or any other variables you would think customer is fine to have it defaulted. Variables page https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/classic/paypal-payments-standard/integration-guide/Appx_websitestandard_htmlvariables/#id08A6HI0J0VU

Hope it helps you. :)