How Shopify customer can make credit/debit card payment without creating PayPal account ?
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Hello Everyone,
How can I change payment option to not ask customer to create PayPal account and proceed with credit card / debit cart as shown in the sample below?

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Hi @highrise,
Thank you for contacting PayPal community.
Our sincere apologies for any inconvenience caused.
To receive guest checkout payments:
Enable the PayPal Account Optional option in your account settings.
Login to PayPal.com > click on "Settings" icon > Account settings > Website payments >> Website preferences >> toggle option "PayPal account optional"
Select On.
If you(i.e merchant) have implemented PayPal Express checkout integration, you can try (https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/express-checkout/ec-initiate-payment/) on your website.
I request to please contact your website developer (or) third-party shopping cart provider to pass the variables "SOLUTIONTYPE=Sole" and "LANDINGPAGE=BILLING" in the SetExpressCheckout API call to make sure guest checkout is offered as often as possible.
Unfortunately, Guest payment checkout(i.e payment via credit/debit) is not applicable for every user. It's important to remember that guest checkout is not guaranteed for every transaction. PayPal runs a risk check to determine eligibility for guest checkout. There will be times when guest checkout is not available.
This is intended behavior of the product. Customer/buyer need to create PayPal account to process the payment.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
Sincerely,
Chiranjeevi
PayPal, Inc.
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I have same problem even when i turned " paypal account as optional ,on". It does not changed anything and on my shopify store is still paypal account required to make a payment. Please what should I do?

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