{"id":485,"date":"2025-03-20T17:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T17:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/documentation.wpgetpaid.com\/?post_type=gd_place&#038;p=485"},"modified":"2025-03-26T13:53:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:53:52","slug":"difference-between-paypal-standard-and-paypal-payments-pro","status":"publish","type":"gd_place","link":"https:\/\/wpgetpaid.com\/documentation\/article\/payment-gateways\/difference-between-paypal-standard-and-paypal-payments-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Difference Between PayPal Standard and PayPal Payments Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tGetPaid supports multiple payment gateways, including PayPal. Speaking of PayPal, it offers two broad choices for users to choose from &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/us\/smarthelp\/article\/what-is-paypal-payments-standard-and-how-does-it-work-faq3700\">PayPal Standard<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.paypal.com\/docs\/paypal-payments-pro\/\">PayPal Pro<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBoth offerings differ from the other in certain aspects.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>\nPayPal Standard<\/h2>\n<p>\n\tTransactions via <a href=\"https:\/\/wpgetpaid.com\/documentation\/article\/payment-gateways\/paypal-standard\/\">PayPal Standard<\/a> are processed on PayPal\u2019s site (not your own), and will allow customers to pay with a PayPal balance or credit\/debit card.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tEssentially, your users will be sent to PayPal from your checkout screen, and you\u2019ll be charged the standard transaction fee for these payments, which is 2.9 percent + 30\u00a2 per transaction. Customers are then directed back to your site after completing the PayPal checkout.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSince checkout is completed on PayPal\u2019s site, you have to rely on PayPal to send payment success and failure notifications back to your store for completed orders using something called an Instant Payment Notification (IPN). Using the PayPal IPN can occasionally be unreliable, which can sometimes result in the invoices not being completed correctly on your store (cases such as when payment was deducted from the user&#8217;s card, but the invoice still shows unpaid), which is one of the downsides to PayPal Standard.<\/p>\n<h2>\nPayPal&nbsp;Payments Pro<\/h2>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/wpgetpaid.com\/documentation\/article\/payment-gateways\/paypal-payments-pro\/\">PayPal Payments Pro<\/a> has a slightly more complicated setup process, but it offers greater liberty in terms of customization.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThere are no startup or termination fees with PayPal Pro, but there is a $30 monthly fee along with a per-transaction fee of 2.9 percent + 30\u00a2.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe biggest difference (and benefit!) to using PayPal Pro is that you can customize the entire checkout experience, as customers remain on your site during the checkout process rather than being directed to PayPal to complete checkout or approve payments. This means you can have a streamlined checkout process, with the same branding and layout as the rest of your site.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIt is noteworthy that PayPal Pro is only available to merchants in select countries, namely, USA, UK and Canada.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GetPaid supports multiple payment gateways, including PayPal. Speaking of PayPal, it offers two broad choices for users to choose from &#8212; PayPal Standard and PayPal Pro.&nbsp; Both offerings differ from the other in certain aspects.&nbsp; PayPal Standard Transactions via PayPal Standard are processed on PayPal\u2019s site (not your own), and will allow customers to pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"article\/tags":[273,331,254,272],"article\/categories":[213,225],"class_list":["post-485","gd_place","type-gd_place","status-publish","hentry","gd_place_tags-paypal-standard","gd_place_tags-paypal-pro","gd_place_tags-payment-gateways","gd_place_tags-paypal","gd_placecategory-extensions-features","gd_placecategory-payment-gateways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgetpaid.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgetpaid.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgetpaid.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/gd_place"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgetpaid.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpgetpaid.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgetpaid.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"gd_place_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgetpaid.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/tags?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"gd_placecategory","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgetpaid.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/categories?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}