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 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 (v3.2.9)

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.

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#1 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.

#2 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

#3 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.

#4 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?

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

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

#6 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.

#7 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

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

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

#9 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?

#10 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

#11 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?

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

Nice plugin,I need it for little services, easy to use.Thanks !

#13 by Rebecca on August 10, 2011 - 11:19 am

I fixed it using the other trigger text…I’m a dummy. Your plugin still rocks.

#14 by Rebecca on August 10, 2011 - 10:17 am

Love the plugin…but am having a bit of trouble with the add to cart or checkout with Paypal button. I keep getting this message:The link you have used to enter the PayPal system contains an incorrectly formatted item amount.
I don’t know if its formatting wrong on the plugin or something I have to do on my Paypal side….all I know is it WAS working at one point. I have reinstalled it a couple times…but no luck.
I don’t have any commas in the prices and I’m using the following kind of trigger text within the post: [wp_cart:mccanns:price:75.00:shipping:0.00:end]
Can you offer a possible solution?
My url is http://www.latenightcoffeshop.com

#15 by Eloktavian on August 10, 2011 - 7:45 am

Thx you for sharing… now my wordpress using this stuff

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#17 by Alex on July 20, 2011 - 5:05 am

Hey there, a really easy to understand Blog that is very helpful, thankyou very much!! Excellent plugins and a great explanations! Thanks. I will certainly subscribe. Ciao

#18 by Templates Wise on July 9, 2011 - 1:01 am

Nice plugin, thanks for sharing

#19 by resin panels on July 4, 2011 - 8:32 am

wow…
very cool plugin, I like it very much, thanks for posting.

#20 by xiaoling on July 2, 2011 - 12:40 am

Thanks for your wonderful software.

#21 by Christian Kassay on June 28, 2011 - 7:21 pm

Thanks very much for posting a lot of this awesome info! I am looking forward to checking out more posts.

#22 by Hank22077 on June 24, 2011 - 5:00 am

Very nice, just what I was looking for.
Thanks!

#23 by Pon on June 23, 2011 - 6:13 am

Excellent plugin and so easy to use, ta very much.

#24 by Atish on June 14, 2011 - 10:52 pm

that video tutorial really helping me a lot to familiar with WordPress tutorial

#25 by italian songs on June 14, 2011 - 12:27 pm

Video was greatly helpful. I’d like to try this plugin soon in one of my websites.

#26 by zamiel on June 13, 2011 - 3:24 am

excellent tools…thanks webmaster

#27 by Wolforg on June 6, 2011 - 3:07 am

Hello, I’ve updated the french translation for the v 3.1. Feel free to download this translation here : http://www.wptrads.fr/extension/wordpress-simple-paypal-shopping-cart/

Best Regards,

#28 by interior wall panelling on June 1, 2011 - 10:46 am

I love this plugin!!!

#29 by pangu on May 27, 2011 - 10:37 pm

nice plugin!!!!

#30 by Ivy on May 27, 2011 - 10:27 pm

Hi Yes2green, The following should do what you are looking for:

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

#31 by Yes2green on May 27, 2011 - 11:12 am

Quick question I have got this installed and customized how I like it by tweaking the CSS but is there any way to get the pay pal check out page to open in a new window? Other than that great plugin simple, light weight and easy to use.
Thanks,
y2G

#32 by SupamaN on May 25, 2011 - 12:42 am

Excellent plugin.

#33 by wp themes on May 24, 2011 - 1:50 pm

Nice plugin, tiny easy to code and change design. Gonna try it on one of my blogs) Ty

#34 by keyonna on May 21, 2011 - 2:24 pm

Thanks your simple plugin. Tt’s my first time to setup my selling website. That’s very easy and important for me as a website newcomer. I am so happy I can sell my products in my our website now.

#35 by Scholar Focus on May 21, 2011 - 2:21 pm

I have downloaded the plugin, it works perfect. Thank you very much for the free software.

#36 by aris on May 20, 2011 - 11:57 am

First off: LOVE the plugin. You should probably advertise it as having a low carbon footprint considering it adds virtually NO overhead to a site

I started using this plugin (v3.0) for my wife’s site and discovered a little issue: the base shipping cost does not kick in unless individual items also have shipping defined.

Apart from that, happy as Larry.

#37 by Toronto Internet Marketing Training on May 18, 2011 - 8:48 pm

This is a great plug-in. It is simple and easy to use. The tutorial videos are clear and easy to follow. I also brought your eStore and I am having this on my other website. Highly recommended! Thanks for your support and contribution.

#38 by Julian on May 17, 2011 - 9:05 am