thread People paying with PayPal through Square on WooCommerce? in Payments Troubleshooting

People paying with PayPal through Square on WooCommerce?

powlzee — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 11:37:51 GMT

I read here about it but i don't see anything about Paypal in my settings.

https://squareup.com/help/gb/en/article/7014-accept-payments

Re: People paying with PayPal through Square on WooCommerce?

tonydow — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 09:48:48 GMT

Dashboard / Online / Settings / Checkout

Re: People paying with PayPal through Square on WooCommerce?

powlzee — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 09:51:01 GMT

That's where i went but it's asking me to set up a Square booking page when i already have one on a website. I guess i need to create one anyway to get to the settings page? 😕

Re: People paying with PayPal through Square on WooCommerce?

Sam_400º — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 09:56:16 GMT

Hey @powlzee - the help page you're looking at is specific to having a Square powered site, with a couple of the plans you can enable PayPal as a 2nd payment gateway.

As you're using Woo/WP then you'd want to look at adding the PayPal gateway to the Woo settings.

Square itself doesn't process any PayPal payments so there won't be any setting within your square account.

Re: People paying with PayPal through Square on WooCommerce?

powlzee — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 10:11:27 GMT

Ah i see, thank you. So you can't directly link PayPal to Square on a separate website? So there will be money being received into Square and money being received into PayPal, separate and that's the only way?

Re: People paying with PayPal through Square on WooCommerce?

Sam_400º — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 10:55:20 GMT

Yup, it would also be the same on a Square website - with money going into the PayPal account when people pay that way (with their higher fees too).

Re: People paying with PayPal through Square on WooCommerce?

Roxy222uk — Tue, 16 May 2023 11:55:41 GMT

This means Square wouldn't 'notice' or record a Paypal sale? So if I ran a campaign through Square and made some sales on my WooCommerce website, but they were paid for by Paypal they wouldn't show up on my reports? Just checking I've understood.

Re: People paying with PayPal through Square on WooCommerce?

Sam_400º — Tue, 16 May 2023 13:31:38 GMT

If you run the square website and have PayPal then it would be recorded as a website sale as the sale is done by Square with the payment processed by PayPal.

If you just use Square as a payment gateway (and your site is not a Square one) then Square won’t record anything not processed by them.

Re: People paying with PayPal through Square on WooCommerce?

Roxy222uk — Wed, 24 May 2023 12:04:59 GMT

Just to double check, this definitely means that Square wouldn't notice the drop in stock either? It's a Wordpress site, WooCommerce is the e-commerce bit.

Re: People paying with PayPal through Square on WooCommerce?

Sam_400º — Wed, 24 May 2023 16:44:45 GMT

Hey @Roxy222uk - I’m not fully up to date with all the Woo options as it’s been a while since I’ve use it.

But this help article on Woo should be able to help as there are bits in there that have change since I last used it.