Let learners pay with their PayPal balance or a card through PayPal's checkout. For a large number of buyers, having a PayPal account is the reason they complete a purchase rather than abandon it.
When a learner chooses PayPal at checkout, the platform creates a PayPal order carrying the amount, the currency, your brand name, and the learner's billing details, then sends them to PayPal to approve it. When they return, the platform captures the payment and verifies three things before granting anything: that the capture completed, that the invoice reference matches the order, and that the amount paid equals the amount owed. Only then is the order marked paid and the learner enrolled.
PayPal is configured for immediate payment with no shipping step, since courses are not shipped. It handles one-time purchases, which covers standard course sales, individual installment payments, and pay-as-you-learn section purchases. It does not handle recurring billing in this platform, so subscription courses need Stripe or PayHere instead.
Buyers use whichever they prefer on PayPal's checkout. In markets where PayPal is the default way to pay online, offering it materially affects whether a sale completes.
Every payment is checked against the order's invoice reference and expected amount before enrollment is granted, so a mismatched or partial payment does not open a course.
Your platform name is passed to PayPal as the brand on the approval screen, so buyers see who they are paying rather than an unfamiliar intermediary.
Run the full purchase-to-enrollment flow against PayPal's sandbox before switching to live credentials.
In your PayPal developer dashboard, create an app for the account you want to take payments into, and copy its client ID and client secret.
In the Wisdom LMS SaaS Portal, open Integrations and add PayPal.
Enter the client ID and client secret.
Switch on sandbox mode, save, and complete a test purchase using PayPal sandbox credentials to confirm the order completes and enrollment follows.
Turn sandbox mode off and enable the integration to take live payments.
PayPal sits alongside your other gateways at checkout, so learners choose how they want to pay rather than being forced onto a card form.
Learners buying one course section at a time can pay for each purchase with PayPal, which suits buyers who prefer not to enter card details repeatedly.
Independent educators sell to buyers who often already have a PayPal account and trust it more than handing card details to a small unfamiliar brand. Offering it removes a real reason people abandon a checkout.
Offering PayPal next to card payment widens the buyer base for every course in your catalog, without any per-course configuration.
In several regions PayPal reaches buyers that card gateways do not, so enabling it alongside Stripe and PayHere covers more of a distributed audience.
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