Magento Multi-Store – How to Disable Paypal for One Store

Easy enough. All you need to do is remove the block that is inserted via the paypal.xml You can do this via your custom theme local.xml file located in your layout folder.

Thus if you look at /app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/paypal.xml you will find the directive that places that link in this block:

<default>
        <reference name="topCart.extra_actions">
            <block type="paypal/express_shortcut" name="paypal.partner.top_cart.shortcut" template="paypal/express/shortcut.phtml"/>
        </reference>
        <reference name="cart_sidebar.extra_actions">
            <block type="paypal/express_shortcut" name="paypal.partner.cart_sidebar.shortcut" template="paypal/express/shortcut.phtml"/>
        </reference>
    </default>

Thus to remove, in your local.xml theme file you can place:

<default>
    <!-- remove from top cart -->
    <reference name="topCart.extra_actions">
        <remove name="paypal.partner.top_cart.shortcut"/>
    </reference>
    <!-- remove from sidebar -->
    <reference name="cart_sidebar.extra_actions">
        <remove name="paypal.partner.cart_sidebar.shortcut"/>
    </reference>
</default>

Solved it!

Uncommented “ini_set('display_errors', 1);” from my index.php page which enabled me to see an error message instead of the blank page. Turns out the problem was a conflict with our unirgy gift certificate module. After disabling that module everything works.