Local Payment Methods

Local Payment Methods, also known as Alternative Payment Methods (APMs) are supported by PayPal business and casual seller accounts.
These payment methods appear automatically for eligible buyers, primarily on the Checkout page. The funds will be received by your connected PayPal merchant account without requiring additional configuration.

APMs allow you to accept payments from customers around the globe who use their bank accounts, wallets, and local payment methods. When a buyer pays in a different currency from yours, PayPal handles currency conversion for you and presents conversion information to the buyer during checkout.

For example, a customer in the Netherlands might want to pay using iDEAL, which more than half of consumers in the Netherlands use for online purchases. In contrast, a customer in Belgium on the same website might want to pay using Bancontact, a popular payment method there.

PayPal Payments automatically provides payment methods that are relevant to the user.

As of the latest version, PayPal Payments supports the following APMs:

• Bancontact
• BLIK
• eps
• iDEAL
• Mercado Pago
• MyBank
• Przelewy24 (P24)
• SEPA Direct Debit
• Trustly
• Venmo
• Pay Upon Invoice
• OXXO

See PayPal’s current list of supported APMs.

Alternative Payment Methods are displayed by default but can be hidden in different ways:

• To disable Alternative Payment Methods in the PayPal Payments plugin, simply toggle off the switch for each method you want to disable in the Payment Methods section of the plugin settings.
• A horizontal button layout will only display PayPal, Pay Later, or Venmo buttons, but no other APMs
• The Vaulting feature will hide all APMs, including Pay Later and Venmo when enabled

The credit card smart button renders on the Checkout page only to provide a more consistent user experience.

The following payment methods are available from the non-Checkout pages:

• PayPal
• Pay Later
• Venmo
• SEPA Direct Debit

All remaining funding sources (including credit cards) are only available from the Checkout page.