Checkout with paypal takes ~10s on production ...

[NinoSkopac]

... and there is no indicator right now that something's going on, so the user will surely think it ain't working and drop it, just to be billed anyways. demo: https://read2me.online/ (you have to be logged in)

[crookedneighbor]

Thanks for reporting this.

When we switch to use the paypal-checkout component with checkout.js this should be solved, as checkout.js will provide UI to indicate that the transaction is still in progress.

[NinoSkopac]

Awesome. Any ETA on that? Will it break BC?

[crookedneighbor]

I'm working on the PR right now. We're waiting for a change on the Braintree gateway before we can merge it in. The one required change for you will be that you will need to create and link a PayPal sandbox account in your Braintree GW.

I do not have an ETA yet.

[crookedneighbor]

You may want to consider passing intent: 'sale' in your PayPal config. That should speed up the process a bit as it does an auth and capture in one step instead of doing that work on the server after the fact.

http://braintree.github.io/braintree-web/current/PayPal.html#tokenize