How can I remove express checkout and add Google Pay and PayPal options?

Payments + Shipping & Fulfilment

Topic summary

Main issue: Hide “express checkout” buttons on the first checkout step and only show payment options like Google Pay and PayPal at the final payment step to reduce customer confusion (notably for Dutch buyers) and prevent lost sales.

What’s proposed:

  • Use an app to hide express checkout at stage 1. One participant notes multiple apps can do this so payment options only appear after customer info is entered.
  • Specific recommendation: PayRules: Hide Payment Methods. Steps shared:
    • Open the app.
    • Go to the “PayPal Express Checkout” section.
    • Enable the toggle to hide the PayPal Express Checkout button.
    • An illustrative image was provided.

Context and implications:

  • Participants agree the express checkout display is confusing on step 1.
  • Guidance focuses on hiding PayPal’s express button; it’s implied the app can remove other express options from the first stage so standard options (e.g., Google Pay and PayPal) appear at the end.

Status:

  • No confirmation from the original poster that the solution was implemented.
  • Discussion remains open; no native Shopify setting was provided, only app-based approaches.
Summarized with AI on December 25. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hello,

  • I would like to remove the express checkout at stage 1 of the check out process and just give options like google pay and paypall also at the end of checkout. I had multiple dutch customers who did not buy my product because they thought their usual payment methods are not available, and I can 't blame them. It is very confusing indeed. Please can someone help me with this issue, as I am clearly losing customers here. Shopify help told me to try it this way .
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There are apps that hide the Express Checkout on stage 1. So you will only see Paypal after completing your information, I agree that the express checkout is very confusing.

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You can remove the express checkout at stage 1 of the checkout process and only give options like Google Pay and PayPal at the end of checkout 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 express checkout options from the first stage.