WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart Plugin

Comments (787 responses)

1. Simon Thompson says:

   Hi – Loving the plug in – REALLY loving it.

   Just wondering if there are plans to increase the number of Variations? Currently im looking for about 4 or so as 2 is rather limiting.

   Otherwise its fantastic!
2. Ivy says:

   Hi Dale, Yes you can list more then one product on a page and this should not happen. There is differently something going wrong, Can you please send me a link to your site so I can take a look at what is happening?
3. DaleC says:

   In wp Simple can I add more than 1 product to a page without having all the products that are on that page appear in the shopping cart even if you only select one of the listed products I want to list many domain names on my product page but when I do everything that is listed appears in the cart after I select just 1 name
4. andi says:

   what a really interesting plugin. maybe i could try it later. thanks for your info.

   regards,
5. Ivy says:

   Hi Jim, The following forum post will explain how to fix this option:

   https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/topic/add-to-cart-button-not-display-correctly

   If you are using the Thesis Theme there is a special fix for this which is explained at the bottom of the above forum post.
6. Jim says:

   I have installed and it works however the formatting of the add to cart button (larger than normal) and the cart images (really large) is making the cart look really weird. Here is the page.
   http://cerroprieto.slointeractive.com/store/
   Thanks for any help you can provide.

   Regards,

   Jim
7. Meg says:

   Perfect and super quick helping. Thank you so much!
8. admin says:

   @Meg, this link should help:

   https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/topic/tweaking-how-the-amount-is-displayed
9. Meg says:

   Hello,

   I would like to remove .00 (cent) from the appearance of shopping cart because I would like to use JPY and it doesn’t have any .00 currency units.
   How can I modify PHP code to do it?

   Regards,

   Meg
10. saha says:

    Many thanks for plugin me it was very necessary
11. adibowo says:

    nice plugin.. thanks
12. Ivy says:

    @Andy, The Simple Shopping Cart does not have a language translation option. This is only available in the premium plugins.

    @Sherrie, The T & C option and instant download options are both eStore features.
13. Jeff Master says:

    Great shopping cart guys. This is exactly what I needed for my website. Thanks a million!
14. Sherrie says:

    Hi,
    Does PayPal shopping cart allow for digital downloads and a terms of agreement box, or is that one of the features with the premium edition;estore? Is the terms of agreement editable so that we can include our own terms of agreement?
    Thanks Sherrie
15. Andy´s Artikelportal says:

    Hi,

    do you have a language file for german? Or is there an other way to translate ?

    Thanks for help!

    Regards,
    Andy – Austria
16. Ivy says:

    Hi Shelly, PayPal will not allow a “-” or “0” amount item in the shopping cart this will produce an error when you go to pay in PayPal. The option for a discount or coupon is available in the eStore, you can read more about this here:

    https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/how-to-use-coupons-discounts-in-wp-estore-364
17. admin says:

    I think you need manual checkout option. At the moment only WP eStore has the manual checkout option:

    https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/?p=1059
18. Shelly says:

    I want to make a line item that’s just a discount. How do I pass this info on to Paypal? It doesn’t like the minus (-) in the number.
19. Clemens says:

    Hey! Thank you for this wonderful Plugin. I’m just wondering if there is or if there can be function to send the shopping cart directly to an email adress instead of using paypal?

    Clemens
20. admin says:

    @Mike, this post should help:

    https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/topic/finding-out-the-number-of-items-in-the-simple-shopping-cart
21. Mike says:

    What is the code to use to pull the # of items in the cart so that I can display an count of products in the basket in my sidebar?

    I had it before but lost my doc on it.

    Thanks!
22. Andy, SEO Company says:

    This looks like a really simple and elegant ecommerce plugin. Thanks for sharing!
23. admin says:

    @Sacman, PayPal do not allow the payment split. So there is no way to do this straight forward. You can use eStore with the Affiliate platform plugin to achieve a reasonable solution though.
24. sacman says:

    I really like this plugin but I have a problem. I am running an online store selling another persons physical products. In short, I receive a commission from each sale but would like have a parallel payment.

    That is, customer buys product for say $100, the main guy gets a payment of $90 minus paypal fees and I receive my commission $10.

    How can I implement this?
    Thank you!
25. admin says:

    @Josh, I tested it with Safari 4 and 5 before (never tested with safari 3 though)
26. josh says:

    love the plug in. works great in firefox. one issue i found is that the add to cart buttons do not display in safari v 3.0.4 (running in mac os 10.4.11). which version of safari is the minimum necessary to view the add to cart buttons?
27. Ivy says:

    Hi Al, Please see the following forum post this should explain how to use a credit card with PayPal if you do not have a PayPal account.

    https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/topic/buyers-can-pay-using-a-credit-card-or-their-paypal-account
28. Al says:

    Is t possible using this that the customer need not create a PapPal account? I don’t want to force the customer to create a PP account if they wish to use a CC?
    Thanks!
    Al
29. seomumbai says:

    Perfect tool for small business person like us, I was looking for a shopping cart kind of option from where my prospective client can directly transfer the fund using PayPal, you have saved my $$. Thanks for great article.
30. bdmccarthy says:

    One of the biggest drags of doing simple e-commerce is knowing exactly in which medium to develop a site and then how exactly to use PayPal. I’m currently working with a client whose site will best be served by WordPress and I hit on this particular plugin right away.

    Never have I had the pleasure of a plugin that worked on the first shot with minimal effort! I’m so grateful to these developers for saving me hours upon hours of creating separate scripts to handle purchases!

    Thank you!
31. Greg says:

    As I am a newbie in every form of the word I am wondering if the problem might be I am using the wrong theme. I have no idea if I am or not but I’m going to try a couple of different ones and see if that is it. Thank you for the great plugin… I know I’m the problem and maybe I will figure it out.
32. admin says:

    You should be able to make the “Shopping Cart title” field empty from the settings menu of the plugin to address it.
33. Antonella says:

    Thanks, I installed the correct view template (comment on 6/21/2010) and it works now.

    However, I encountered another problem. Now the sidebar widget is showing the “Your Shopping Cart” title twice. Everything looks okay in the widget selection. I just dragged over the widget to the sidebar and that’s it.

    You can view it here:
    http://alturl.com/b72x

    Any thoughts? Thanks.
34. Tommy Gun says:

    I have been looking for a shopping cart for so long.. and bang.. there you have it and simple beauty little shopping cart looking very snazy. Good job and thank you.
35. Ivy says:

    Hi, I believe what you are looking for is the Simple Shopping Cart and NextGen Gallery integration. You can read more about this here:

    http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/wordpress-shop-using-nextgen-gallery-and-wp-shopping-cart-7
36. Joshua says:

    Hi, thx 4 the plugins, How to make a store with grids, product pics, title and then “add to shopping cart button”, when the title is clicked, it will show post that contains product info and details? I’m just clueless, please help me.
37. Jamie says:

    This is great!
    So easy to use,

    I think you should put in a discount code option 🙂
38. martin says:

    Great plug in.

    Is there any way to have multiple ‘quantity’ options for discounts?
    ie. 1 for $10, 5 for $40, etc..

    thanks!
39. Online Shopping Zone says:

    thanks for information, nice info
40. Ivy says:

    Hi Ron. Please see the following article it will explain more about the shipping options for the Simple Shopping Cart: https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/wordpress-shopping-cart-how-the-shipping-cost-calculation-works-297
41. Ron says:

    I’ve just installed your plugin. But does this work with International shipping????
42. admin says:

    @NameForest, it’s a CSS conflict… this forum post should give you clues as to how to fix it (that forum post is for the WP eStore plugin but the issue is the same)

    https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/topic/add-to-cart-button-not-display-correctly
43. NameForest says:

    Hi,
    first of all, it’s the best e-commerce plugin around. Nevertheless, I have found a bug that’s anoying me and I don’t know how to fix it. Images used in plugin get HUGE when I activate it on my theme. I will leave it active on my site hence it’s in its early testing stages. Please take a look and see for yourself.

    My theme has built in timthumb auto resize images plugin and my only idea why they’re getting huge is because of the timthumb itself… I guess… not a coder here

    Anyway, please take a look and rep me if you have the time..

    All the best.
44. greatstufflowprice says:

    Hey thanks for a great plug in. Sometimes maneuvering around templates can be a challenge but this plugin is simple and therefore make building my page simple.

    Thanks!
    Pierre
45. David says:

    Don’t worry, works now, there are 2 instances of that line of code, I had only removed one of them initially.

    thanks!
46. David says:

    Oh, is there a way to place copy on the cart page that says ‘your cart is empty’ but only show this if in fact the cart is empty?

    I tried removing the line ‘if (cart_not_empty())’ but that doesn’t work. Any thoughts?

    Thanks again..
47. David says:

    Beautiful,

    Mant thanks!! 😉
48. Ivy says:

    Hi David, I believe the following forum post is what you are looking for this will guide you on how to redirect users the to checkout page: https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/topic/adding-cart-to-wp-page

    Please let me know how it goes,

    Cheers,
    Ivy
49. David says:

    Hi all, great plugin by the way, keep up the good work!

    I just wondered how I can direct the user to go straight to the cart page once ‘add to cart’ button is clicked…

    All I need is to do is hardcode a url in there so I’m guessing it shouldn’t be too difficult but everything I’ve tried so far doesn’t work.
50. ozjuah says:

    I have been looking for this! Thanks