- Short answer
- If PayPal is in Additional payment methods, deactivate it; in the US or France on Shopify Payments it's a Wallet with no separate off switch we found.
- Reversible?
- Yes: account details stay saved, and you can reactivate PayPal Express at any time.
- Who can edit it
- Only the store owner can edit PayPal Express information.
- Hide the product-page button
- The theme setting hides every accelerated checkout button there, not only PayPal's.
- Hide only PayPal at checkout
- Payment customization functions can hide PayPal's accelerated checkout placement; hiding that placement alone is Plus-only. They run through apps.
Deactivate PayPal Express in your Shopify admin
First check that PayPal is listed under Additional payment methods. If it is, deactivate PayPal Express Checkout:
- In your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Payments.
- Under Additional payment methods, click PayPal.
- Click Deactivate.
Your account details stay saved, so you can reactivate PayPal Express at any time. Only the store owner can edit PayPal Express information. What deactivating does to open orders or refunds, none of the pages we read says.
Shopify creates this account automatically with your sign-in email and shares that email with PayPal; deactivating avoids exposing it publicly.
Can you turn off PayPal Wallet in the US and France?
If your business is in the US or France and uses Shopify Payments, PayPal isn't in Additional payment methods: it is integrated only through the Shopify Payments Wallet, so the steps above don't apply.
No Wallet page we read describes switching PayPal off separately from Shopify Payments. The one switch they document is for Venmo, which US merchants ask Shopify Support to deactivate.
How do you hide the PayPal button instead?
On product pages, deselect Show accelerated checkout buttons under Buy buttons in the theme editor. It hides every accelerated button there, not only PayPal's, and no page we read says whether this setting removes cart-page buttons.
At checkout, hiding one method takes a payment customization app (Basic or higher; in the US and Canada below Plus, non-credit card methods only). Shopify's developer changelog says payment customization functions can hide PayPal's accelerated checkout placement; the API reference limits hiding specific placements to Plus, and the changelog doesn't say whether hiding covers PayPal Wallet. Shopify warns that hiding accelerated options might lower conversion.
The absences this answer reports were checked on October 11, 2026 against Shopify's Help Center pages on PayPal setup, PayPal Wallet in the US and France, Shopify Payments, deactivating payment methods, dynamic and accelerated checkout and checkout customization, plus the Payment Customization API docs and one developer changelog entry.
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