Remove Or Hide Express checkout button from first checkout page (payPal)

Store Design

Topic summary

A merchant seeks to remove or hide the PayPal Express checkout button from their store’s first checkout page.

Initial Solutions Attempted:

  • Editing cart-template.liquid or cart.liquid files with custom code
  • Adding CSS to theme.scss.liquid file to hide .additional-checkout-buttons
  • These methods failed to resolve the issue, as shown in follow-up screenshots

Key Challenge:
Since mid-2022, Shopify changes mean traditional liquid/CSS code no longer works for hiding express checkout buttons.

Current Recommended Solutions:

  • Yagi Express Payment Hider app: Uses Shopify Functions to hide PayPal Express (and Apple Pay, Google Pay) while keeping PayPal available at payment step. Works with one-page checkout and includes workaround for returning customers.
  • PayRules: Hide Payment Methods app: Allows toggling visibility of PayPal Express button directly from app settings.

Status: The discussion remains open with app-based solutions presented as the most viable approach, though the original poster has not confirmed resolution. One commenter also reported customers unable to purchase with credit/debit cards instead of PayPal/Google Pay.

Summarized with AI on November 9. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
1

Need your support to remove the Express check out.

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Hello Oneway21!

  1. From your admin, go to Online store > Themes > Actions > Edit code.

  2. In the Sections folder, locate the cart-template.liquid file. If your theme doesn’t have a cart-template.liquid file, locate the cart.liquid file in the Templates folder instead.

  3. Find the following code cart.general.checkout

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  5. Paste the following block of code on a new line underneath the code in step 3:

  6. {% if additional_checkout_buttons %}

    {{ content_for_additional_checkout_buttons }}
    {% endif %}

  7. Click Save

Hope its helps you

Other wise you can reach out to me

Thanks

Solution1

3

Many Thanks for your response,

After I Add this code, still problem not solved .

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4

Hello Oneway21!

After seen your screen shot it seems it may require a custom coding theme related it can be done by coding developer you can reach to them or I am available

Thanks

5

I am too Approciate your kind support to hid it.

6

Hello One way 21

Try this out

  1. From your admin, go to Online store > Themes > Actions > Edit code.

  2. In the Assets folder, locate the theme.scss.liquid file.

  3. Paste the following CSS code at the very bottom of this file

  4. additional-checkout-buttons {
    display: none !important;
    }

  5. The CSS file should now appear as follows

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  7. Click Save

Thanks

Solution1

7

Hi I have a problem which is my customers can not buy with a credit or debit card instead of Paypal and google pay

8

Hi @One-Way21 ,

Shopify has made changes since mid of 2022, which the liquid / CSS code to hide the checkout button does not work anymore. To hide the express checkout payment method, you will need an app that utilize Shopify Functions.

I have made an app to hide the Paypal Express (and other express checkout method like Apple Pay, Google Pay etc) on the top part of checkout page, and customer can still select Paypal method at the payment step.

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The app is made using native Shopify functions, thus it does not affect your store existing layout or functionality at all.

The app name is Yagi Express Payment Hider (https://apps.shopify.com/yagi-express-payment-hider)

The app also have a workaround which you can hide the express checkout buttons for returning customers with saved address, but you will need to create a placeholder shipping rate for it to work, this will also work with one-page checkout.

Hope this can help!

Regards,

Axel Kee

9

You can hide PayPal Express button very easily from the checkout page using PayRules: Hide Payment Methods app. To hide it, enable the toggle to Hide of the PayPal Express Checkout field from the app rule page like the below screenshot.

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Now your new customers shouldn’t see the PayPal express button in the checkout page.