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WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart Plugin

Home » Blog » WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart Plugin

Last updated: April 9, 2025

Sell anything from your WordPress website easily.

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.

Specification
App Category
WordPress Plugin
Software Name
WordPress Simple Shopping Cart
Version
5.0.7
Date Modified
2025-04-09
Operating System
WordPress 6.8
Price
USD $0
Description
A simple WordPress shopping cart plugin to sell your products online
Landing Page
https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-simple-paypal-shopping-cart-plugin-768
File Format
application/zip
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Plugin Description

The WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart plugin allows you to add an ‘Add to Cart’ button anywhere on your blog. You can easily place the shopping cart on any post, page, or sidebar. The shopping cart displays the items that customers have added, and it allows them to add or remove items as needed. The payments are securely processed by PayPal and/or Stripe.

Plugin Documentation

Go to the WP Simple Shopping Cart Documentation page to read the plugin documentation.

Screenshots

Product Display Box

product display box feature

Simple Product Display

simple-shopping-cart-example-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.

shopping-cart-mobile-device-display-example
wordpress-shopping-cart-example-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).

Shopping Cart Installation and Usage (Video)

The following video tutorials on the plugin installation and usage guide is a good starting point:

Basic Installation and Setup

Quick shopping cart plugin installation and configuration video tutorial

Using Product Variations

The following video shows how you can use product variations

Charging Shipping For Your Physical Products

How to setup shipping charge for your tangible products:

Selling Digital Media Files

The following video shows how to setup the plugin to sell digital media files from your site:

Display a Nice Product Box for your Items

The following video shows how you can create a product box on a WordPress page for your items:

Create a Specific Checkout Page

The following video shows how you can create a specific checkout page for your products:

Using Discount Coupons Feature

The following video shows how to use the discount coupon feature of the shipping cart plugin:

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

  • 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)

Selling Media Files

You can sell digital media files with this plugin. Check the usage documentation to learn more.

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. Instructions on how to do it can be found on the sell photos from WordPress tutorial.

Download Latest Version

Download the WordPress PayPal Shopping Cart Plugin.

Other Alternative Plugins

You can also try the WordPress Easy PayPal Payment Accept Plugin or the WP Express Checkout 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.

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Reader Interactions

Comments (787 responses)

  1. admin says:

    @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).

  2. Chris says:

    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!

  3. Piercing says:

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

    Thanks for sharing

  4. Margaret Mairs says:

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

    echo simple_cart_total();

    Sorry.

  5. Margaret Mairs says:

    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

  6. Ivy says:

    @ 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.

  7. Stephanie says:

    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?

  8. Mike says:

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

  9. Dennis Graves says:

    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.

  10. Dennis Graves says:

    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:

    <input type="hidden" name="custom" value="”>

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

    Is it possible?

    Thanks,

    Dennis

  11. Ivy says:

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

  12. Andrew says:

    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?

  13. Ivy says:

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

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

  14. Tim says:

    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?

  15. Thomas Taylor says:

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

  16. Rebecca says:

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

  17. Rebecca says:

    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

  18. Eloktavian says:

    Thx you for sharing… now my wordpress using this stuff 🙂

  19. Power Kites says:

    I am so glad that I found an interesting and informative post like yours. Several of the blogs that I have seen in these previous days did not please me due to insufficient substance.

  20. Alex says:

    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

  21. Templates Wise says:

    Nice plugin, thanks for sharing 🙂

  22. resin panels says:

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

  23. xiaoling says:

    Thanks for your wonderful software.

  24. Christian Kassay says:

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

  25. Hank22077 says:

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

  26. Pon says:

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

  27. Atish says:

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

  28. italian songs says:

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

  29. zamiel says:

    excellent tools…thanks webmaster

  30. Wolforg says:

    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,

  31. interior wall panelling says:

    I love this plugin!!!

  32. pangu says:

    nice plugin!!!!

  33. Ivy says:

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

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

  34. Yes2green says:

    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

  35. SupamaN says:

    Excellent plugin.

  36. wp themes says:

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

  37. keyonna says:

    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.

  38. Scholar Focus says:

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

  39. aris says:

    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.

  40. Toronto Internet Marketing Training says:

    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.

  41. Julian says:

    Great plugin, thank you !

  42. Ivy says:

    Hi Louise,
    We have added an option (“Reset Cart After Redirection to Return Page”) in the Simple Shopping Cart’s settings menu. When you check this option the shopping cart will be reset when the customer lands on your “Thank You Page”.

    If you do not have this option in your version of the Simple Shopping Cart please download a new version of the plugin from our site here:

    https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-simple-paypal-shopping-cart-plugin-768

  43. Louise says:

    Question tho, when I redirect back to the site after purchase, items are still in my cart. This would confuse the customer as to if the items were actually bought. Is the cart supposed to clear after purchase? Thanks 🙂

  44. Louise says:

    Thanks for this wonderful plugin.

  45. Justin says:

    Nice plug-in! It’s just really easy to use and now I could just sell my products easily. The video was great as well. It was very helpful because there were lots of questions in my head. I’ll recommend this to my friends, too. I’m sure that they’ll love it. Thank you very much.

  46. Kashif says:

    Hey, this looks like it will work for our website, thanks for the work!

  47. Ivy says:

    Hi Muhammad,

    Yes you can use PayPal Sandbox with the Simple Shopping Cart. Open the “wp_shopping_cart.php” file and search for the following:

    https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr

    Once you find it replace it with the following

    https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr

    This will make it go to the sandbox site when you checkout. After you are done testing simply revert the changes back.

  48. Muhammad Usama says:

    I want to know that Is it possible to test WP Simple Shopping plugin with PayPal Sandbox????
    Need help to test WP Simple PayPal Shopping plugin with PayPal sandbox.

  49. Newbie Blogger says:

    very awasome share how I can say thank to you for this plugin

  50. Sheldon says:

    WOW, thank you SO MUCH for this PayPal tool. It’s awesome!

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