Testing features previews
The WooCommerce PayPal Payments development team is dedicated to continuously integrating the latest features from PayPal. These Feature Previews are our way of letting you experience new features and provide invaluable feedback before they're incorporated into future updates. They are opt-in and require manual activation.
Please be aware that feature previews may not be fully developed or tested and could contain bugs or other issues. Their improvement and finalization will be based on our feature roadmap and your feedback.
We strongly recommend testing these features in a staging environment first to ensure they align with your expectations. If you do choose to use them in a production environment, please proceed with caution and closely monitor the plugin's activity.
For instructions on testing these features, see below. If you encounter any issues or have questions during testing, please reach out to our support team directly.
The current PayPal Payments (pre-release) version includes the following feature previews for testing:
- Hosted Card Fields (already launched in selected regions
- Pay Later messaging Configurator
Feedback about new features is always appreciated by the development team.
Recently released features:
- PayPal Subscriptions (automatic subscription renewal payments without requiring Vault approval)
- Apple Pay
- Google Pay
- Pay Later Configurator
PayPal continues to enhance their card field integrations to provide merchants with the latest features. The new Hosted Card Fields offer several benefits over the old Hosted Fields and are available for testing following update 2.4.2. You must be enabled for Advanced Debit and Credit Card payments to use this feature.
- WooCommerce plugin in any recent version
- WooCommerce PayPal Payments plugin version 2.4.2-rc1 or higher
- Advanced Card Processing supported store location
The Hosted Card Fields integration is an opt-in feature that can be enabled through a code snippet or a small plugin.
- To activate the Hosted Card Fields, you can download and install this plugin. Activate this plugin to enable the Hosted Card Fields feature in PayPal Payments version 2.4.2-rc1 or higher:
- available for all supported Advanced Card Processing regions
- optional Cardholder Name field
- regular card payments
- 3D Secure card payments
- Vaulting & subscription support
- Save card without purchase
- Compatibility improvements for the "Place order" button behavior
(Optional) Cardholder Name field:
- Resolves
Hosted Fields payment is already in progress.message that may occur during payments with classic Hosted Fields when the fields were re-rendered after an AJAX reload - Modern look out of the box (no longer copies the default theme style)
- Card field data persists through AJAX reloads
- Automatically validates fields & highlights invalid data
