Magento 2 supports number of payment methods to allow customers pay online. But at times, the admin may have set up the collaboration with the customers in such a way that they pay directly through cash, cheque or bank transfer method and the admin places orders on behalf of those customers. In such a case, the admin require to enable such payment methods only in the Magento 2 backend and not in the frontend for the customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The default Magento 2 does not provide any such functionality to make a payment method visible only to admin and invisible in the frontend. To satisfy the above scenario, I\u2019ve come up with a method to make a payment method visible only to admin in Magento 2<\/strong><\/em>. Using this method, the payment method won\u2019t be visible on the frontend to the customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. Create events.xml<\/strong> at app\/code\/Vendor\/Extension\/etc\/<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Create PaymentMethodAvailable.php<\/strong> at app\/code\/Vendor\/Extension\/Observer\/<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Using the code mentioned above, you can make a payment method only visible to the admin and invisible to the customers in the frontend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Same way, as an admin, you may require to restrict payment methods in frontend. You can explore Magento 2 Payment Restrictions<\/a> extension by Meetanshi to create condition based payment rules for restricting payment methods in frontend.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMethod to Make a Payment Method Visible Only to Admin in Magento 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<config xmlns:xsi=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2001\/XMLSchema-instance\" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation=\"urn:magento:framework:Event\/etc\/events.xsd\">\n <event name=\"payment_method_is_active\">\n <observer name=\"disable_payment\" instance=\"Vendor\\Extension\\Observer\\PaymentMethodAvailable\" \/>\n <\/event>\n<\/config><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
<?php\nnamespace Vendor\\Extension\\Observer;\n \nuse Magento\\Framework\\Event\\ObserverInterface;\nuse Magento\\Framework\\App\\State;\n \nclass PaymentMethodAvailable implements ObserverInterface\n{\n \n protected $state;\n \n public function __construct (\n State $state\n ) {\n $this->state = $state;\n }\n \n public function execute(\\Magento\\Framework\\Event\\Observer $observer)\n {\n \/\/ you can replace \"checkmo\" with your required payment method code\n if($observer->getEvent()->getMethodInstance()->getCode()==\"checkmo\"){\n if($this->state->getAreaCode()!=\"backend\"){\n $checkResult = $observer->getEvent()->getResult();\n $checkResult->setData('is_available', false); \n }\n }\n }\n}<\/pre>\n\n\n\n