# Express Checkout wallet payments failing at checkout

Market: WooCommerce

WooCommerce store owners using Apple Pay and Google Pay Express Checkout see errors or unclickable buttons, blocking wallet payments, and they want these buttons to work reliably for guests and on mobile browsers.

Source: https://idea.2folk.com/clusters/17

## Verdict: skip (low confidence)

Only three lines, each a separate plugin bug that vendors will likely fix. No payment signal, and the proposed monitor is hard to build and test reliably.

## The problem

Wallet express checkout fails after authorization with false required-field errors, or the buttons are greyed out on iPhone browsers. Shoppers who want a fast checkout cannot pay that way, so stores risk lost sales and fall back on slower methods.

Who: WooCommerce merchants using Apple Pay and Google Pay express checkout through payment plugins. Business size is not stated.

Would they pay? none. No prices or wish to pay were found in the lines.

## Idea: Express Checkout Tester

A monitor for WooCommerce stores that runs scheduled test checkouts with Apple Pay and Google Pay across guest, logged-in and pay-for-order flows, and alerts the owner when one breaks.

Smallest version:
- WordPress plugin that checks wallet button visibility and required-field config on key pages
- Scheduled guest and pay-for-order flow checks with pass/fail logs
- Email alert with the failing step and a suggested setting fix

Why it can win: Existing plugins offer no cross-flow wallet monitoring, so merchants only learn of breakage from lost orders or customer complaints.

## Tools people use instead

- PayPal Payments plugin: Express buttons greyed out and unclickable on iPhone Safari and DuckDuckGo in version 4.1.3

## Risks

- Failures look like plugin bugs that vendors will patch, so a monitor may be needed only briefly
- Real wallet payments are hard to automate in tests, limiting what can be checked
- Only three lines, with no sign merchants would pay for monitoring

## Test it this week

- Post in WooCommerce and WordPress merchant groups asking how they find out when express checkout breaks
- Message the three reporting merchants to ask how long the issue went unnoticed and what it cost
- Put up a landing page offering express checkout alerts and count email signups

## Size

- Posts: 3
- Unique authors: 3
- Average severity: 3.3 of 5
- First seen: 2026-08-27. Last seen: 2026-10-01
- Trend: 1 posts in the last 28 days, 2 in the 28 days before
- Authors who say they plan to switch: 0

## Who has the problem

- merchant \(2\)

Store size hints:
- none found

## What they do today

- Regular checkout/payment still works
- Disables Apple Pay and Google Pay so PayPal and Venmo work
- Card payments on the same page work

## Tools named

Tools they complain about:
- none found

Alternatives they name:
- none found

## Price hints

- none found

## Evidence (top 3 by severity)

- [Apple Pay and Google Pay Express Checkout fail for guests after wallet authorization with a 'Create account password is a required field' error, though guest checkout is enabled.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/apple-pay-and-google-pay-express-checkout-failing-for-guests/) — 2026-08-27, wordpress, severity 4
- [Express Checkout buttons are greyed out and unclickable on iPhone Safari and DuckDuckGo when Apple Pay or Google Pay is enabled in PayPal Payments 4.1.3.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/express-checkout-buttons-greyed-out-on-iphone-safari-when-apple-pay-google-pay/) — 2026-10-01, wordpress, severity 3
- [Apple Pay/Google Pay Express Checkout always fails on the Pay for order page with a 'Phone is required' error, while card payments and regular checkout work.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/express-checkout-apple-pay-google-pay-fails-on-the-pay-for-order/) — 2026-09-11, wordpress, severity 3

## Before you build

- This is a signal, not proof of a buyer. Talk to at least 5 of the authors first.
- Check each named tool for price, rating, and recent reviews on its own site and app store.
- Write down what a buyer would pay and what they pay now.