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PayPal's brand recognition helps give customers the confidence to buy. Your all-in-one checkout solution can offer PayPal, Venmo, Pay Later options, card processing, local payment types], and more — all through a single PayPal integration.

PayPal Fastlane is also compatible with auto orders (subscriptions) and upsell after just like existing credit cards.

Pre-requisites

In order to accept PayPal Fastlane on your checkout you will first need to have a US based PayPal business account. If you have not already connected your PayPal account navigate to Configuration → Checkout → Payments then click Connect within the PayPal section.

Second, make sure that your StoreFront theme is one of the following themes with the minimum version specified. If not please upgrade your theme.

Theme Name

Version

Elements

2.18

Hero

1.21

Jewel

1.17

Lifty

1.21

Native

1.16

Poppy

1.07

Enabling Fastlane

If you previously connected your PayPal account before Fastlane became available, navigate to Configuration → Checkout → Payments and click on the Fastlane logo as shown below then scroll to the bottom and click Save.

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The stock theme provides a great example on how these elements are used. If you need assistance modifying your customized theme, please contact professional services.

Presentation to the Customer at Checkout

The Fastlane checkout s triggered based upon the entry of a email address associated with a PayPal account, it does not appear as a separate express checkout button, like the other express checkout options:

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If you theme is updated for Fastlane, you’ll see this text next to the email address field.

Upon entry of the email address and then the tabbing through to the next checkout field, if the email is associated with a PayPal account, a pop-up dialog window will appear for the FastLane checkout. This dialog window will trigger sending the customer an SMS, and upon entering the code that is sent, the customer billing details will be populated.