WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart Plugin

Categories: Featured, Wordpress Plugin

The WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart is a very easy to use 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 Site

NextGen Gallery and WordPress Paypal Shopping Cart Integration

NextGen Gallery Integration

NextGEN Gallery developed by Alex Rabe is a full 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 wodpress-ecomerce.com site.

Download Latest Version (v3.2.6)

Download the WordPress Paypal Shopping Cart Plugin.

Support/Donation Option

Donation option can be found on my projects page.

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 need help with this plugin or if you are having an issue with the plugin then please post it on the WordPress Shopping Cart Documentation Site on the post that you think is relevant to the issue and I will try to address it as soon as I can.

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#1 by Deny Saputra on January 25, 2012 - 6:01 pm

Oh,,, really apologize dear!!

It’s just my fault!!
I just forgot to add [show_wp_shopping_cart] code, oh really.. I am so shame with this.
The plugin works fine and charm!

#2 by Deny Saputra on January 25, 2012 - 5:42 pm

Hi dear, sorry I bother you.
I having issue with your awesome and simple plugin.
Yesterday, all works fine, when I click “Add to chart” button then automatically add the item into shopping cart, there is a table contained shopping item and also “checkout button”.
BUT, today! I just lose it all without any changing on my themes, plugin, and setting.
I got the “add to cart” button didn’t work, when I click it, I just go back into the page (where I put the button) and didn’t see my item cart or shopping cart, or even checkout button. I can’t see it all!

Please help me, I am so impressed with how simple this plugin, and still want to use it.
Let me know if I still can use it.
Thanks before.
Regards!
Deny Saputra

#3 by smilingpockets on January 20, 2012 - 5:09 am

Thank you for this very helpful info. I’ve been trying to find a simple way to integrate an online store into my existing blog and it seems this is just what I need.

#4 by tom on January 17, 2012 - 11:47 pm

very useful info… thanks keep it up.

#5 by Ethan on December 7, 2011 - 8:14 pm

Lovely share, I already installed on my site, gonna use it on launch of site, it worked out as per expectation on testing…

#6 by nancy grace on December 1, 2011 - 2:16 pm

Thanks for sharing good wordpress plugin.

#7 by Ivy on November 23, 2011 - 7:40 pm

@ Davis, With the simple shopping cart you will need to use the PayPal option. You will want to make sure that in your PayPal Profile you have the “note to the seller” option enabled.

#8 by kelly on November 23, 2011 - 5:41 pm

Wow – i am NOT techie, but am so excited that i followed your video and now have a shopping cart and handy-dandy thank you page! Saved me $120 because now i can cancel the other page i was using! yippers!

#9 by Davis on November 22, 2011 - 9:56 pm

Great plug-in. I’ve used it for a couple of different things and it works flawlessly.

Is it possible to allow the buyer to provide comments or special instruction with their purchase using the Simple Shopping Cart?

I have seen the question asked a few times in older posts and saw this article,http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/wordpress-shopping-cart-additional-resources-322, which indicates that PayPal will allow the buyer to provide special instructions. In my testing, PayPal is not providing a place to enter the information.

Thank you kindly for any assistance.

#10 by Phil Hendon on November 16, 2011 - 10:04 am

Found your product and am about to try it. Good to see a lot of people like it so fills me with confidence

#11 by geoff rogers on November 3, 2011 - 5:29 pm

Excellent plugin – I’ve used this on couple of clients websites and it works perfectly.

#12 by Jayprakash on October 21, 2011 - 10:52 am

I was looking for this kind of plugin & I hope this plugin will help me a lot to sell my products. I found that this plugin has also got good detailed info so it will not be difficult to implement.Thanks

#13 by Fernando on October 19, 2011 - 5:15 pm

Regracias que buen plugin se pasaron muchas gracias

#14 by PA Web Design on October 17, 2011 - 12:56 pm

Exactly what I needed for a client of mine and this works like a charm. Easy to integrate but looks great. Thanks for the share!

#15 by admin on October 16, 2011 - 9:15 pm

@Chris, please download v3.2.6 from this page and give it a try… I made some modification to the function that returns the cart total (it should return “0.00″ when the cart is empty).

#16 by Chris on October 16, 2011 - 1:13 pm

I am using a bit of PHP to echo cart total to another spot on the web page. WHen the cart is empty, nothing appears. I would like it to read “0″ when the cart is empty. Does anyone know of the php I should add to the the echo?

Thanks!

#17 by Piercing on October 13, 2011 - 3:09 am

This is a great plugin, we use it to sell piercing jewelry and nail products.

Thanks for sharing

#18 by Margaret Mairs on September 19, 2011 - 8:13 am

It’s the php tags that are stopping it from showing:

echo simple_cart_total();

Sorry.

#19 by Margaret Mairs on September 19, 2011 - 8:06 am

Hi,

Having now found the solution to my problem of the total in the cart showing the number to 2 decimal places I just thought I would share it with everyone just in case they too are looking for the same facility:

Using the code from an earlier post, supplied by amin007 but tweaked in a couple of places using code provided by members in this and another forum:

Adding the following code to my “wp_shopping_cart.php” file
function simple_cart_total()
{
foreach ((array) $_SESSION['simpleCart'] as $item)
{
$total += $item['price'] * $item['quantity'];
$item_total_shipping += $item['shipping'] * $item['quantity'];
}
$grand_total = $total + $item_total_shipping;
return number_format($grand_total,2);
}
and then calling the function in the header.

This works a treat and now shows £1 as £1.00 which is what I was looking for.

Hope this helps someone else.

Regards Margaret

#20 by Ivy on September 13, 2011 - 9:53 pm

@ Stephanie with the eStore and Affiliate you can link an Affiliate id to a coupon so when they enter in the Affiliate id it will also apply a discount.

Let me know if this is not what you are looking for.

#21 by Stephanie on September 13, 2011 - 9:27 am

I would like to be able to allow certain customers (ie. customers of affiliates) to be able to enter a specific code and get a discount on my product. Can I do that with just the simple shopping cart? Can I do that if I purchase the WordPress eStore?

#22 by Mike on September 1, 2011 - 11:01 am

Just downloaded it. Seems simple enough to use and support is good. Thanks.

#23 by Dennis Graves on August 27, 2011 - 11:07 pm

I figured it out, I think. I at least got the edit to not cause a fatal error and the page loads. I will try tomorrow to make sure the affiliate gets the credit.

#24 by Dennis Graves on August 27, 2011 - 6:17 pm

I love the shortcode to generate the PayPal shopping cart and buttons. Is there a way to integrate idevaffiliate into the code. I use idev on a few of my other sites and I would like to add it to these as well. Idev requires a line of code to be added to the PP shopping cart code:

I looked through the plug-in in the editor, but didn’t see where to put it.

Is it possible?

Thanks,

Dennis

#25 by Ivy on August 26, 2011 - 8:44 pm

@Andrew, There are no hidden fees with our plugins. =)

#26 by Andrew on August 26, 2011 - 3:06 pm

Nice Plug-in. I will definitely be using this for my web design/SEO services website. Are there any hidden fees with using this plug-in?

#27 by Ivy on August 22, 2011 - 9:43 pm

@Tim, Please see the following page for the variation options in the WP Simple Shopping Cart:

The section called “Using Variation Control Option”
http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/simple-wp-shopping-cart-installation-usage-290

#28 by Tim on August 22, 2011 - 10:08 am

Seems like a good plugin. Adding Digital Content is straight forward with the video. However, I have one question. How does one add the physical products with the variation control? As shown in the above pics?

#29 by Thomas Taylor on August 19, 2011 - 10:43 am