diff --git a/htdocs/core/class/html.form.class.php b/htdocs/core/class/html.form.class.php
index a74872d4a98..1383b6221b9 100644
--- a/htdocs/core/class/html.form.class.php
+++ b/htdocs/core/class/html.form.class.php
@@ -3498,6 +3498,7 @@ class Form
     // phpcs:disable PEAR.NamingConventions.ValidFunctionName.ScopeNotCamelCaps
 	/**
 	 *      Return list of payment methods
+	 *	Constant MAIN_DEFAULT_PAYMENT_TYPE_ID can used to set default value but scope is all application, probably not what you want.
 	 *
 	 *      @param	string	$selected       Id du mode de paiement pre-selectionne
 	 *      @param  string	$htmlname       Nom de la zone select
@@ -3513,7 +3514,7 @@ class Form
     public function select_types_paiements($selected = '', $htmlname = 'paiementtype', $filtertype = '', $format = 0, $empty = 1, $noadmininfo = 0, $maxlength = 0, $active = 1, $morecss = '')
 	{
         // phpcs:enable
-		global $langs, $user;
+		global $langs, $user, $conf;
 
 		dol_syslog(__METHOD__." ".$selected.", ".$htmlname.", ".$filtertype.", ".$format, LOG_DEBUG);
 
@@ -3523,6 +3524,9 @@ class Form
 		elseif ($filtertype != '' && $filtertype != '-1') $filterarray = explode(',', $filtertype);
 
 		$this->load_cache_types_paiements();
+		
+		// Set default value if not already set by caller
+		if (empty($selected) && !empty($conf->global->MAIN_DEFAULT_PAYMENT_TYPE_ID)) $selected = $conf->global->MAIN_DEFAULT_PAYMENT_TYPE_ID;
 
 		print '<select id="select'.$htmlname.'" class="flat selectpaymenttypes'.($morecss ? ' '.$morecss : '').'" name="'.$htmlname.'">';
 		if ($empty) print '<option value="">&nbsp;</option>';