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Customize PayPal Credit/Debit Card Icons on the WooCommerce Checkout Page

Last updated on August 30, 2024

PayPal Express Checkout Payment gateway plugin displays PayPal credit/debit card checkout options at the checkout page as shown below:

PayPal Credit/Debit Icons in the Checkout
PayPal Credit/Debit Icons in the Checkout

If you wish to remove or edit the Credit/Debit card images embedded with the checkout option, you can follow the given methods.

Steps to remove credit/debit card icons from the checkout page

To remove or hide the debit/credit card icons:

  1. From your WordPress dashboard, go to Appearance > Theme editor.
  2. Then, add the code snippet below at the bottom end of functions.php of the active theme file.
  3. Alternatively, if you can’t locate the functions.php file, use a third-party code snippet plugin to add the code. To learn more about using a third-party plugin for snippet addition, check out the following article: Adding Custom Codes with a Third-Party Plugin.

Adding the above code snippet will remove the credit/debit card icons from the checkout page as shown below:

PayPal Credit/Debit Icons Removed
PayPal Credit/Debit Icons Removed

Steps to change the credit/debit card icons on the checkout page

To change the debit/credit card icons:

  • From your WordPress dashboard, go to Appearance > Theme editor.
  • Then, add the code snippet below at the bottom end of functions.php of the active theme file.
  • Alternatively, if you can’t locate the functions.php file, use a third-party code snippet plugin to add the code. To learn more about using a third-party plugin for snippet addition, check out the following article: Adding Custom Codes with a Third-Party Plugin.

Adding the above code snippet will replace the credit/debit card icons with another image, as shown below.

PayPal Credit/Debit Icons - Custom Image
PayPal Credit/Debit Icons – Custom Image

However, if you wish to add an image of your choice, simply replace the URL within the code snippet with the image’s URL to display. For example, $icon_url=’ //insert image URL here’;

You can learn more about the plugin by viewing this short set-up tutorial on the PayPal Express Checkout payment gateway.