How can I effectively remove express checkout buttons?

Payments + Shipping & Fulfilment

Topic summary

Goal: remove express checkout (accelerated payment) buttons—Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal—from checkout.

  • Original approach tried: adding the Liquid snippet for additional checkout buttons to cart-template.liquid so the buttons appear in the cart and can be hidden there. Result: buttons still show only on the checkout page and never appear in the cart, so the tutorial method can’t be applied.
  • References shared: StackOverflow thread and a theme help article explaining how to remove/hide PayPal Express or additional payment buttons. OP notes these don’t help because the buttons don’t render in the cart.
  • Alternative offered: use the “PayRules: Hide Payment Methods” app to hide the PayPal Express Checkout button via a toggle (screenshot provided). This specifically addresses PayPal.

Status: partial workaround (PayPal via app) provided. No confirmed solution for Apple Pay or Google Pay, and OP has not confirmed success. Discussion remains open with unresolved questions about hiding all express methods from checkout.

Summarized with AI on December 25. AI used: gpt-5.
1

Hi,

I would like to remove the express checkout buttons (Apple Pay, Google Pay and Paypal) but the following tutorial did not work out for me.

https://community.shopify.com/c/blog/remove-the-express-checkout-buttons-from-first-checkout-page/ba-p/1200898

The buttons remain to be on the checkout page in stead of the cart section after adding the following line of code to the cart-template.liquid: {% if additional_checkout_buttons %}

{{ content_for_additional_checkout_buttons }}
{% endif %}

Can you help me out with this? Maybe some custom code is blocking think.

Thank you in advance!

Kind regards,

Wouter vd Meer

2

@WoutervdMeer ,

Try this method,

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57068267/how-to-remove-express-checkout-button-from-checkout-page-on-shopify-basic-plan

https://help.groupthought.com/article/700-checkout-remove-paypal-express-or-additional-payments-buttons

hope this will work for you!

3

Hi @oscprofessional ,

Actually, the first part of the tutorial goes wrong.

My express checkout buttons never appear on the cart section.

And so, it can not be removed over there as well.

Do you know some other trick?

4

You can remove express checkout buttons like PayPal using the PayRules: Hide Payment Methods app. Here’s how you can do it:

  1. Open the PayRules: Hide Payment Methods app.
  2. Navigate to the “PayPal Express Checkout” section.
  3. Enable the toggle to hide the PayPal Express Checkout button.

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This will remove the PayPal express checkout button from the checkout page.