Announcing PayPal Checkout with One-Click Onboarding

We’re excited to announce that PayPal Checkout is now available on Spiffy Stores — with a streamlined, one-click onboarding process that makes it faster and easier than ever to start accepting payments.

Why PayPal Checkout?

PayPal Checkout gives your customers more ways to pay securely, without leaving your store. When a shopper chooses PayPal at checkout, a secure PayPal window opens where they can:

  • ✅ Log in and pay with their PayPal account
  • ✅ Pay by credit or debit card as a guest (no account required)
  • ✅ Choose Pay in 4 (where available) to split their purchase into four interest-free payments

As soon as the payment is confirmed, the window closes, the order is created and marked as paid, and your customer receives their confirmation email.

This smooth process is a big improvement over older PayPal integrations like Website Payments Standard, which could leave unpaid or abandoned orders in your system. With PayPal Checkout, only confirmed payments create orders — keeping your records clean and accurate.

Benefits at a Glance

  • Seamless checkout – Customers stay in your store without being redirected off-site
  • More payment choices – PayPal, debit/credit card (guest checkout), or Pay in 4 installments
  • Free Pay in 4 – No extra fees for customers to use installments
  • No unpaid orders – Orders only appear after confirmed payment
  • One-click setup – Automatic onboarding, no manual credentials needed
  • Detailed orders – Includes a full line-item breakdown in PayPal
  • Tracking updates – Order tracking info syncs to PayPal for dispute protection
  • Future-ready – Replaces legacy methods like Website Payments Standard and Express

One-Click Onboarding

As an official PayPal partner, Spiffy Stores now supports automatic onboarding. This means you can connect your PayPal account to your store with just a single click — no technical knowledge or manual credential setup required.

All you need is a PayPal Business account. If you don’t have one yet, you can sign up during the onboarding flow. If you’re using a personal PayPal account, you’ll be prompted to upgrade by adding your business details.

Migrating from Older PayPal Integrations

If you’re currently using PayPal Website Payments Standard, PayPal Express, or even a manually configured PayPal Checkout, we strongly recommend migrating to the new version. You’ll unlock all of the benefits above while creating a faster, simpler checkout for your customers.

The migration is straightforward:

  1. Note down your current PayPal settings.
  2. Deactivate your existing PayPal integration.
  3. Enable the new PayPal Checkout in your Spiffy Store Toolbox.
  4. Follow the one-click connection process to link your PayPal account.

That’s it — your store will be ready to accept payments through the new PayPal Checkout.

Ready to Get Started?

Log in to your Spiffy Store Toolbox, head to Preferences → Checkout & Payment, and select PayPal Checkout to begin.

With PayPal Checkout, you’ll be giving your customers a smoother, more flexible payment experience — and you’ll enjoy easier setup, cleaner order management, and better dispute protection.

Newsletter Aug 2025 – We’ve been working hard for you!

Here are the latest updates from Spiffy Stores…
Shipping Rates Insurance Cover

First up, we have a great new addition to our shipping rates, automatic insurance cover for weight-based rates.

For example, if you need to ship similar items, one worth $5 and the other $500, then using the traditional methods used by every other ecommerce platform, your going to charge your customer exactly the same shipping rate.

Bad luck if your carrier loses the $500 item!

But no more. Our new Insurance Cover feature lets you define an amount for included cover, extra cover and the fee for extra cover. This means that when the value of the items you are shipping together in a parcel exceeds the included cover, the shipping rate will be increased automatically by adding the fee required to provide the amount of extra cover needed.

This new feature is included in all plans and is available on all weight-based shipping rates. Read more about Insurance Cover in our Knowledge Base.

Australia Post Extra Small Satchels

While on the topic of shipping, our Australia Post shipping calculator has been updated to support the new Extra Small satchels.

Meet Carter, our new Chatbot

It’s all the rage, and AI has come to Spiffy Stores. We have a new chatbot available, both on the website and in the admin interface, and he’s been trained on our entire Knowledge Base and blog articles from the past 15 years, so he’s really a bit of an expert now. Want some advice on how to do something new? Just run it by Carter and see if he can help.

That’s it for the moment, but we’ve got a lot more to let you know about, including some exciting new features that we’re putting the final touches on.