WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart Plugin

Categories: Featured, Wordpress Plugin

The WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart is a very easy to use and lightweight WordPress plugin that allows you to sell products or services online in one click from your WordPress blog.

Plugin Description

WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart lets you add an ‘Add to Cart’ button anywhere on your blog. This plugin also allows you to add the shopping cart anywhere in a post or page or sidebar easily. The shopping cart shows the user what they currently have in the cart and allows them to add or remove items. The payment is processed by PayPal.

Screenshots

Simple Product Display

Demo Product Display

Product Display with Variation Control

wp-shopping-cart-prodcut-variation-sample

Shopping Cart Screenshot

Below is a screenshot of how the shopping cart looks when customers add products to the cart.

Sample Shopping Cart Screenshot

Demo of the WordPress Paypal Shopping Cart Plugin

I am using the WordPress eStore (plugin to sell digital products securely) which is a premium version of the WordPress PayPal Shopping Cart plugin. So I had to disable this simple shopping cart on this blog as I didn’t want to run two WordPress shopping cart plugins on the same site but you can visit the WordPress eStore plugin page and play with the add to cart buttons to see how this plugin works (It will give you a good idea as the “add to cart” feature of both these plugins are similar).

Installation and Usage (Video)

The following video tutorial on basic installation and usage guide is a good starting point:

Detailed WP Shopping Cart installation and usage instructions can be found on the Documentation site

WordPress Shopping Cart Installation and Usage Instructions.

Documentation & Technical Support

WP Shopping Cart Documentation

What Currencies are Supported?

You can sell products in any currency that is supported by PayPal. Currently you can sell using the following currencies:

Canadian Dollar
Euro
British Pound
U.S. Dollar
Japanese Yen
Australian Dollar
New Zealand Dollar
Swiss Franc
Hong Kong Dollar
Singapore Dollar
Swedish Krona
Danish Krone
Polish Zloty
Norwegian Krone
Hungarian Forint
Czech Koruna
Israeli New Shekel
Mexican Peso
Brazilian Real (only for Brazilian members)
Malaysian Ringgit (only for Malaysian members)
Philippine Peso
New Taiwan Dollar
Thai Baht
Turkish Lira (only for Turkish members)

NextGen Gallery and WordPress Paypal Shopping Cart Integration

NextGen Gallery Integration

NextGEN Gallery developed by Alex Rabe is a fully integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option. A demo shop that was created with the NextGen Gallery and Paypal Shopping Cart plugin and Instructions on how to do it can be found on the sell photos from WordPress article written by wordpress-ecomerce.com.

Download Latest Version (v3.5)

Download the WordPress Paypal Shopping Cart Plugin.

You can also try the WordPress Easy Paypal Payment or Donation Accept Plugin that can be used to Accept Paypal payment for a service or a product or Donation.

If you are looking for a professionally supported, feature rich and robust way to sell products or services then checkout our WP eStore plugin.

#1 by Ivy on May 23, 2013 - 9:00 pm

@Aaron, Please make sure you have specified the following in the Simple Shopping Cart Settings.

Products Page URL

If you have done this and you are still having this issue please let me know.

#2 by Aaron on May 23, 2013 - 4:03 pm

Everything is working fine except when using the shopping cart as a widget on the side and you click on the shopping cart button (thinking you are going to the main shopping cart page) it just takes you back to the websites home page. What setting changes this?

#3 by Ron Cruickshank on May 7, 2013 - 10:01 am

This is just awesome! So easy to use, does everything on one page, great for my customers too. I am amazed! Love it!

#4 by Maria on February 12, 2013 - 6:56 pm

Awesome, awesome, awesome!!! I can’t believe I was able to do it myself. The video tutorial rocks. So simple and straightforward. Love it! Thank you a b’jillion times over!!

#5 by rahul seo on January 9, 2013 - 10:26 pm

Very good wordpress plugin.Easy to install and use. Thank you

#6 by admin on January 2, 2013 - 10:39 pm

@StuartL, Thank you for sharing your tweak.

#7 by StuartL on December 30, 2012 - 5:21 pm

We struggled to get the shipping costs to work as per our requirement (due to the dependency on non-zero shipping cost per item). I’ve tweaked this in my copy of the source by changing from line 288 in wp_shopping_cart.php as follows:
$item_total_shipping = FALSE; foreach ($_SESSION['simpleCart'] as $item) { $total += $item['price'] * $item['quantity']; if (array_key_exists('shipping', $item) and is_numeric($item['shipping'])) { $item_total_shipping += $item['shipping'] * $item['quantity']; } $total_items += $item['quantity']; } if($item_total_shipping !== FALSE) { $baseShipping = get_option('cart_base_shipping_cost'); $postage_cost = $item_total_shipping + $baseShipping; } else { $postage_cost = 0; }

With this change any ‘shipping’ tag in an item will allow that item to incur shipping charges, even if the individual shipping charge for that item is zero. If no items in the basket have a shipping charge associated with them the base shipping cost is not added and the total postage cost is zero.

#8 by benny warpap on December 16, 2012 - 7:13 am

omg.. this plugin very simple & effective. nice work bro.. you make me have idea to create a nice plugin like you.. <3

#9 by Sarah Mayo on December 10, 2012 - 3:30 am

This tutorial has been most informative and effective. Thanks so much for your help. I am very excited about using paypal to receive payments. Could not have done it without you.

#10 by Ivy on November 26, 2012 - 7:56 pm

@Social, Yes all of our plugins are kept up to date to work with the latest version of WordPress.

#11 by SocialPinPlus on November 26, 2012 - 12:37 pm

Is it working with the latest WP version 3.4.2?

#12 by mr shiz on November 19, 2012 - 4:19 pm

Thank you so much for your clear explanations.

#13 by rahul on November 18, 2012 - 2:19 pm

Nice and simple plugin,thanks

#14 by RomanRiot on October 23, 2012 - 11:19 pm

Wow, this made everything a breeze! Thank you so much for the great product AND the instructional videos.

#15 by Brent George on October 16, 2012 - 2:02 am

Thanks for this great plugin,works really well,Thank-you.

#16 by Alan on October 15, 2012 - 2:00 pm

This is so much better than wordpress e commerce.. Worked in a breeze for me.

Thanks!!

#17 by admin on September 11, 2012 - 1:44 am

There is Spanish translation available in the plugin. If you download a copy of the plugin from this page you will see the spanish translation inside the “language” folder.

#18 by Jesse on September 10, 2012 - 5:01 am

HIello

About the simple PayPal shopping cart, can you please tell me how to translate these fields below into Spanish?

Item Name Quantity Price

Thanks
Jesse
PS: best wordpress plugin I’ve used

#19 by chad on July 27, 2012 - 7:47 am

Thank you. This was so easy to do. Could not have been easier and effortless.

#20 by Ivy on July 4, 2012 - 8:38 pm

@Nick I believe the following is what you are looking for.

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/topic/paypal-form-in-new-window

#21 by nick on July 4, 2012 - 9:21 am

Great plugin – but how do I get the paypal window to open up in a new window please? At the moment it gets stuck when it trys to open within the same window. Any help please?

#22 by Zisis Stylianos on June 21, 2012 - 12:36 am

I was strugling seting up comerce plugins and all were incobatible with my theme . i wanted something simple and after 3 days i found that plugin. Thank you!