I have 4 Shopify stores. I am a retailer, manufacturer, importer, distributor, and seller of goods ~ worldwide.
Above everything else
Having said that, the day to day operations of an online shop can be annoying and time consuming.
After a recent Shopify upgrade I noticed my PayPal sales had skyrocketed. Not only had many of the Shopify store sales switched to PayPal but I also noticed a higher bounce rate off the cart page.
This meant less sales overall, and the “abandon carts” had no information for me to follow up with the potential customer.
Investigating, I found the PayPal express button had taken over. Unless the customer looked closely for the regular checkout button on the cart page, or ignored the button at the top of the checkout page, they were either leaving my shop or using PayPal.
How to remove the big offensive PayPal button from Shopify Checkout.
As stated earlier, I am a marketer. I don’t usually get too involved with code anymore but – having said that – I am a DIY sorta gal.
In my hunt for the cure I found only three solutions. The first is to contact the Shopify guru’s to do it for you. This is because you have limited access to your cart/checkout code.
The second was to simply { comment } out the paypal code. This only worked for either the cart page or the checkout page but NOT for both. If you comment out the code for the cart page then the Big Yellow PayPal button showed up at the top of the checkout page.
*SOLVED*
The third – which does seem to be working well, is the following simple code that you can do yourself. BTW – please leave a comment below if this stops working.
Login to your store and the click on “Online Store”. Select “Edit Code” and choose “cart.liquid”. Some of the newer versions with sections will direct you to go to “/sections/cart-template.liquid”
WARNING – when changing code on your site you really should do a backup.
At the very top insert this code:
<style>
.additional-checkout-buttons {
display: none;
}
</style>
Simple as that!
I decided to post this because it was originally difficult to find the answer online, and to show off how good I am at SEO!
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