The WordPress Simple Shopping Cart plugin allows you to create 'Add to Cart' buttons for your products or services on your site. This simple shopping cart plugin lets you sell products and services directly from your own WordPress site and turns your WP blog into an e-commerce site.
With this plugin, your customers have the convenience of paying for their selected items using popular payment gateways such as PayPal and/or Stripe.
It allows you to add/display the shopping cart on any post, page or sidebar easily. The shopping cart shows the user what they currently have in the cart and allows them to change quantity or remove the items.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJgGdD-tZW4
You will be able to create products by using shortcodes dynamically.
If you have a responsive theme, the shopping cart's output will adapt seamlessly to ensure a mobile-friendly shopping experience.
Furthermore, this plugin provides a simple solution for selling digital products. To see a demonstration of how you can effectively sell your digital media files using the simple cart plugin, please refer to the following video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPvXac_j_lI
Designed as a lightweight solution with minimal lines of code and a streamlined set of options, this plugin ensures optimal site performance. Moreover, it is designed to be a low maintenance solution, minimizing the likelihood of frequent site disruptions caused by upgrades. With this plugin, you can enjoy a stable and hassle-free shopping cart functionality while maintaining the overall stability of your website.
It offers the newest/latest PayPal Commerce Platform (PPCP) checkout option. You can enable it in the settings menu of the plugin.
The plugin also has an option to use the smart PayPal payment buttons. The following video shows a checkout demo using PayPal smart button.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0yDWDmtpKI
WP Simple Cart Plugin, interfaces with the PayPal sandbox and Stripe testmode to allow for testing.
For video tutorial, screenshots, detailed documentation, support and updates, please visit:
WP Simple Cart Details Page
or
WP Simple Cart Documentation
Features
- Easily create "add to cart" button with options if needed (price, shipping, options variations). The cart's shortcode can be displayed on posts or pages.
- Use a function to add dynamic "add to cart" button directly in your theme.
- Minimal number of configuration items to keep the plugin lightweight.
- Sell any kind of tangible products from your site.
- Ability to sell services from your your site.
- Sell any type of media file that you upload to your WordPress site. For example: you can sell ebooks (PDF), music files (MP3), audio files, videos, photos, images etc.
- Your customers will automatically get an email with the media file that they paid for.
- Show a nicely formatted product display box on the fly using a simple shortcode.
- Option to enable terms and conditions for your customers to agree to before they checkout.
- Uses the newest/latest PayPal checkout option.
- Option to use the PayPal Commerce Platform Checkout option. You can enable it from the settings menu of the plugin.
- Option to use the smart payment buttons of PayPal. Allows the customers to checkout in a popup window (using a credit card, paypal or paypal credit).
- Your customers will be able to use the PayPal' Pay in 4 payment option (Buy Now Pay Later).
- Collect special instructions from your customers on the PayPal checkout page.
- You can use PayPal sandbox to do testing if needed (before you go live).
- Ability to offer the Stripe checkout option. Your customers can conveniently make credit card payments through the secure Stripe payment gateway.
- You can use Stripe testmode to do testing if needed (before going live).
- The Stripe checkout will display payment method options based on what you, as the merchant, have enabled in your Stripe account.
- The orders menu will show you all the orders that you have received from your site.
- Ability to configure an email that will get sent to your buyers after they purchase your product.
- Ability to configure a sale notification email that gets sent to the site admin when a customer purchase your item(s).
- Ability to configure discount coupons. Offer special discounts on your store/shop.
- You can create coupons and give to your customers. When they use coupons during the checkout they will receive a discount.
- Create discount coupons with an expiry date. The coupon code automatically expires after the date you set.
- Compatible with WordPress Multi-site Installation.
- Ability to specify SKU (item number) for each of your products in the shortcode.
- Ability to customize the add to cart button image and use a custom image for your purchase buttons.
- Ability to customize the add to cart button text via shortcode parameter on a per product basis.
- Track coupons with the order to see which customer used which coupon code.
- Ability to add a compact shopping cart to your site using a shortcode.
- Ability to show shopping cart with product image thumbnails.
- Ability to use a custom checkout page style.
- Ability to configure region based shipping additions.
- Ability to use blocks to add the 'add to cart' button and the 'shopping cart' to your posts/pages/sidebar.
- Option to hide the quantity field in the shopping cart. This can be useful for a site selling only digital products where the quantity is always 1.
- Works nicely with responsive WordPress themes.
- Can be translated into any language.
- and more...
Shopping Cart Setup Video Tutorials
There is a series of video tutorials to show you how to set up the shopping cart plugin on your site.
Check the
video tutorials here.
Language Translations
The following language translations are already available:
- English
- German
- Spanish
- French
- Breton
- Italian
- Japanese
- Polish
- Czech
- Hebrew
- Swedish
- Norwegian
- Danish
- Turkish
- 荷兰语
- Brazilian Portuguese
You can translate the plugin using
this documentation.
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