PayPal Payments for WooCommerce is the official PayPal extension supporting Standard Checkout, Pay Later, Venmo, and Apple Pay through the PayPal gateway. Orders come through with the standard WooCommerce statuses like wc-pending, wc-processing, wc-on-hold, wc-completed, and wc-refunded, plus PayPal-specific metadata in wp_postmeta for the paypal_order_id, the paypal_capture_id, the payment_source (PayPal, card, Venmo, Pay Later), and the PayPal payer_id. The native WooCommerce orders screen shows them mixed.

SleekView Kanban reads the same WooCommerce orders you would query with WC_Order, filtered to orders that used PayPal Payments. Pick post_status as the group column and every order becomes a card slotted under Pending, Processing, Completed, or Refunded. Card fronts show the customer name, the order total in store currency, the PayPal payment_source, the paypal_order_id, the paypal_capture_id, the payer_id, and the date placed, so finance has every PayPal-specific detail right on the card directly.

Dragging a card between columns calls the standard WooCommerce status transition the admin uses, which fires woocommerce_order_status_changed. PayPal's refund flow fires for refund transitions when configured, the customer notification email goes out through WooCommerce's email module, the PayPal Dashboard reflects the change, and any extension subscribed to the WooCommerce hooks reacts, exactly as it would after a manual admin status change from the order edit screen.

Storefronts running the official PayPal Payments extension process hundreds of transactions every day across PayPal Standard Checkout, Pay Later, Venmo, and Apple Pay routed through the PayPal gateway. Some clear instantly, some take a few minutes for Pay Later approval, some get stuck in Pending when the customer abandons the PayPal redirect. The default WooCommerce orders screen mixes PayPal transactions with COD, prepaid, and other gateway orders, which makes PayPal-specific reconciliation a CSV export exercise every single day for finance teams.

The disconnect between what the PayPal Dashboard shows and what WooCommerce shows is the source of most accounting headaches for PayPal merchants. A successful payment lands in PayPal but the WooCommerce order stays Pending because the webhook failed. A refund shows in WooCommerce but never appears in the PayPal Dashboard because the integration was misconfigured.

A daily payout from PayPal shows revenue that does not match WooCommerce. A kanban view that reads and writes the same WooCommerce orders the gateway processed, filtered to PayPal Payments specifically, keeps the team and the books honest. Every drag is a real status change, every column count reflects the real PayPal pipeline health, and the cards themselves carry enough context for a new finance analyst to handle reconciliation on day one of the job.