WP Stripe Cart - Fast, lightweight Stripe Shopping Cart for WordPress

WP Stripe Cart is the simple way to sell products on WordPress with a real shopping cart — without the weight of WooCommerce. Most Stripe plugins force a choice: a heavy full eCommerce platform you have to configure and maintain, or a single "Buy Now" button with no cart at all. WP Stripe Cart sits exactly in between. You get a genuine multi-item cart and checkout — customers can add several products, adjust quantities, and pay in one go — while your site stays fast and clean. Products and prices are managed in your Stripe dashboard and displayed on any page or post with a simple shortcode. Stripe stays the single source of truth, so there is no bloated product database to maintain inside WordPress. Cart, checkout, tax, and order tracking are all handled for you. Why WP Stripe Cart?

• A real cart, not just a button. Sell multiple items in one checkout — not one-product-at-a-time.
• Lightweight and fast. No page-builder bloat, no dozens of database tables slowing your site down.
• No monthly fees. You only ever pay standard Stripe processing rates.
• Mobile-first checkout. Apple Pay and Google Pay work out of the box for one-tap payments.
• Managed in Stripe. Create and price products in Stripe; display them anywhere with a shortcode.
• Your data stays yours. Order and customer data lives on your own site and in your Stripe account — no third-party store host in the middle.
• Theme-integrated design. Inherits your theme's colors and typography so the cart looks native.
• Multi-currency ready. Handles multiple currencies with correct formatting.
• Translation-ready. Ships with English and Japanese, and is ready for more.

What can you sell? WP Stripe Cart works for a wide range of use cases:

• Digital downloads (ebooks, software, templates, music)
• Physical products with shipping
• Services and bookings
• Memberships
• Donations
• Event tickets

Add a product in seconds Create the product in Stripe, then drop the shortcode where you want it: [wsc-get-product product_id="prod_XXXXXXXX"] That's it — the product renders with an "Add to cart" control, and checkout works immediately. A simpler alternative to WooCommerce If you have looked at WooCommerce and felt it was overkill — too many settings, too many extensions, too much overhead just to take a few payments — WP Stripe Cart gives you the checkout you actually need with a fraction of the setup. And unlike single-payment button plugins, you still get a proper cart when a customer wants to buy more than one thing. WP Stripe Cart Pro Upgrade to WP Stripe Cart Pro when you're ready to sell more. Pro adds the tools that turn a cart into growing revenue:

• Coupons & discount codes — run promotions and sales
• Subscriptions & recurring billing — sell memberships and plans
• Cart abandonment recovery emails — win back customers who don't finish checkout
• Conversion tracking — GA4 and Meta Pixel integration
• Stripe Tax support — automated tax calculation
• Custom order status labels — fit the cart to your workflow

A White Label add-on is also available for agencies and developers who want to fully customize templates, adjust colors through a GUI, and remove the "Powered by" branding. Start free, and upgrade whenever you want more.

1. In your WordPress admin, go to Plugins → Add New.
2. Search for "WP Stripe Cart".
3. Click Install Now, then Activate.
4. Go to WP Stripe Cart → Settings and connect your Stripe account.
5. Create products in your Stripe dashboard.
6. Add a product to any page or post using the shortcode, for example: [wsc-get-product product_id="prod_XXXXXXXX"]
7. Publish the page and start selling.

You can also install manually by uploading the plugin folder to /wp-content/plugins/ and activating it from the Plugins screen.

1.2.1

• Fix: Checkout — the card number field is no longer drawn with a double border, and it now fills the row like the other fields.
• Fix: Checkout — a scrollbar no longer appears inside the card number field.
• Improved: Checkout — the country and prefecture dropdowns now have proper spacing above and below, instead of sitting flush against the row edges.

1.2.0

• New: Order status management on the Orders screen — mark each order Open / In progress / Done from an inline dropdown, change several at once with a bulk action, and filter the list by status. (WP Stripe Cart Pro can rename, recolour and add your own statuses.)

1.0.20

• New: Prevents mixing currencies in one cart — a Stripe payment can only charge a single currency, so adding a product in a different currency is blocked (and the checkout is refused server-side as a safety net).
• New: When the Pro add-on isn't installed, the menu shows its revenue features (Coupons, Subscriptions, Abandoned Carts, Conversion Tracking) with a "PRO" badge, each opening a short overview page.
• Improved: The Country list / Varied shipping fee help text now only shows while editing the raw value, and the "Default Fee" field is laid out more clearly. (Groundwork for the visual editors in WP Stripe Cart Pro.)

1.0.19

• Fix: Prices in currencies with decimals (e.g. USD $12.99) are now displayed correctly instead of 100x too large. Amounts are shown in the currency's major unit automatically — no configuration needed. Zero-decimal currencies (JPY, etc.) are unchanged.
• Fix: Desktop checkout — the address fields no longer overflow and get clipped on the right.

1.0.18

• Security: The charge amount is now recomputed on the server from your Stripe prices at checkout, so a tampered cart cannot underpay. Orders are verified against Stripe (PaymentIntent must be paid) before they are recorded, and duplicate records for the same payment are prevented.
• Improved: Shipping is more robust — an empty, malformed, or region-not-listed shipping table no longer produces PHP warnings or a broken cart response. Malformed JSON is now caught and flagged when you save the settings.
• New: A "Default Fee" shipping setting — charged when the buyer's country / prefecture is not listed in the varied-fee table (instead of silently shipping for free). Leave blank to keep the previous behavior.
• Improved: Tax is rounded to a whole currency unit (valid Stripe amount) instead of showing fractional minor units.
• New (developers): The wsc_tax_amount filter lets add-ons replace the tax calculation (used by WP Stripe Cart Pro's Stripe Tax mode).

1.0.17

• New: A "How to use" help page under the WP Stripe Cart menu — bilingual (Japanese / English) with tabs; add-ons can add their own tab.
• New: An "Upgrade to Pro" link on the Plugins screen (shown only when the Pro add-on is not active).

1.0.16

• Improved: The card number field is now a comfortable size on desktop as well as mobile, matching the other checkout fields.
• New (developers): Extension points so add-ons can build on the cart without changing the free plugin — the wsc_cart_calculated and wsc_payment_intent_args filters, the wsc_order_saved action, and wsc:purchase / wsc:refresh-cart JavaScript events.
• New: A compact info panel on the settings screen for the Pro and White Label add-ons.
• Improved: When a recurring (subscription) price is used with the [wsc-get-product] shortcode, a notice is now shown to administrators only (that shortcode charges a one-time payment).

1.0.15

• Improved: Mobile checkout — larger, easier-to-tap country / prefecture dropdowns and card number field, and extra bottom spacing so the Pay button is never hidden behind the mobile browser toolbar.
• Improved: More robust Apple Pay / Google Pay (Payment Request) availability check.

1.0.14

• New (White Label): Change the cart colors (button, text, accent, corner radius) right from the settings screen — no CSS editing required.
• Improved (White Label): "Powered by" is now removed automatically when the add-on is active, via the wsc_show_powered_by filter — no template editing required.
• Improved (White Label): Template overrides are now partial — copy only the templates you want to change into your theme's wsc-template/ folder; anything you don't copy falls back to the plugin's up-to-date bundled template. Child and parent themes are both supported.
• Fix (White Label): The custom stylesheet placed in the theme was not being loaded (a URL was being checked with file_exists()). It now loads correctly.
• Improved: The styling is split into a small always-on "fixes" layer (layout/overflow only) and a token-based "skin" layer, so functional fixes never override a customized design.
• Dev: New filters wsc_show_powered_by and wsc_enqueue_theme_css.

1.0.13

• Design: Refreshed the front-end styling to blend with block themes (Twenty Twenty-Four and later). Buttons, colors and typography now inherit the active theme's design tokens via a non-destructive integration stylesheet.
• Fix: Product and cart images no longer overflow their containers.
• Improved: More compact cart drawer items (thumbnail on the left, name and quantity on the right) that stay tidy even with long product names. The checkout button now always stays visible.
• New: The "Added to cart" notice now shows the product name next to the thumbnail.
• New: Setting to adjust the floating cart icon position (offset from the bottom-right), useful when it overlaps a theme's "scroll to top" button. The cart icon is also raised in the stacking order.
• Improved: Larger, easier-to-tap "Add to cart" and "Checkout" buttons.
• New: Modern, simple "No Image" placeholder (SVG) that adapts to light and dark themes.
• Fix: Load the text domain on the init hook to avoid the "translation loading triggered too early" notice on WordPress 6.7+.
• Improved: Front-end assets are now versioned by the plugin version so updates bust the browser cache reliably.
• Tested up to WordPress 7.0.

1.0.7 Bugfix for auto address input for Japanease. 1.0.6 Bugfix for errors that occurs when not having product image on Stripe. 1.0.5 Added auto address input by Postal Code for Japanease address. 1.0.4 Updated japanease translation. Exclude lang dirrectory and do it online. 1.0.3 Updated translation releating settings. 1.0.0 Initial Release.