Magento – Enable PayPal Pro & Standard in Magento 1.7

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Since Magento 1.7 it's only possible to use PayPal Pro or PayPal standard but not both.

In this scenario I cannot use PayPal Express because I have to pass through order data which gets lost using Express, so I need PayPal standard to be working as well.

In my time writing modules I've never seen anything configured in the new PayPal way in the Magento configuration so I'm not sure where to begin looking. If anyone can point me on the right direction I'll answer this with the solution.

As a side note, does anybody know exactly why Magento have enforced this?

UPDATE

I have tried setting the core_config_data payment/paypal_standard/active and although both appear enabled in the admin, still only the direct method shows in the checkout.

Best Answer

If its an issue of PayPal express showing up when you dont want it to (because of both options enabled) and not being able to disable it specifically, then you can just display none on its class.

Open the template/checkout/onepage/payment/methods.phtml

Where it shows the <input> tag put inside

id="payment_<?php echo $_code ?>"

Then in css you can call the paypal method as something like

(#)payment_paypal_express {
display: none;
}

But dont use the (), it just wont let me use the id character in this text, but you know know what I mean.

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Magento – Enabling Paypal Pro and Paypal Standard at the same time

If you do not want to have Paypal Express Checkout button displayed in the shopping cart you can turn it off in the Basic settings of Express Checkout. This will allow to have PayPal mark available on the Payments step only along with Pro. In this case customer will be forced to fill in all the fields before get to the payment page. Also in 1.9 you have an ability to skip order review page for Express and make checkout process even more shorter. See this link.

Pro can be activated with Express only, besides Express API is better than Standard since does not rely on IPN - able to process payment and create order at the same time.

Magento – Magento CE won’t let me use PayPal Standard without Express (which requires API credentials)

I found the "steps to reproduce" and hotfix. Originally we enabled the "Website Payments Standard" payment method and then disabled because we had the problem with "Suspect Fraud" status. Immediately after I disabled the "Website Payments Standard" it turned into "Website Payments Standard (Includes Express Checkout)" and I was not able to revert it back. This behaviour is always reproducible on Magento CE 1.9.1.0

I found out that if I enable the payment method directly in database, it reverts back to the "Website Payments Standard".

This is the query to re-enable it:

update core_config_data 
set value = '1' 
where path = 'payment/paypal_standard/active';

I am not sure why it behaves like that and we have not enable it on production yet because we are still trying to solve the "Suspect Fraud" status problem. We discovered that some of the modules we installed are causing conflicting (Stored Credits, Payment Charge etc) and thus charging incorrect amounts, but that is different story.

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Magento – Enabling Paypal Pro and Paypal Standard at the same time

Magento – Magento CE won’t let me use PayPal Standard without Express (which requires API credentials)

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