Payment Button for PayPal (also known as WP PayPal) plugin connects PayPal to your WordPress site and makes e-commerce available for you.
Payment Button for PayPal plugin uses the PayPal API to create a checkout process for your customer that is fast, easy, and intuitive. With one simple shortcode, you can add a secure payment button to your website that lets you accept credit card, debit card, and PayPal payments from any mobile device, tablet, or PC.
Note: This is NOT an official PayPal product.
Features
- Accept PayPal and PayPal Credit payments
- No monthly fee
- Accept credit cards and debit cards
- Optimized mobile checkout experience
- Accept one-time payments
- Simplified PCI compliance
- Accept donations
- OneTouchTM enables checkout with a click of a button
- Accept 25 currencies from over 200+ countries and markets
- Accept PayPal Pay Later (Pay in 4) payments
- Accept payments with PayPal smart payment buttons
- Accept PayPal Checkout payments (previously known as Express Checkout)
How to Install Payment Button for PayPal in WordPress
- Login to your WordPress admin dashboard
- Go to Plugins->Add New Plugin
- Enter Payment Button for PayPal naa986 in the search box
- Once you find the plugin hit the install button
The plugin can also be downloaded from here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-paypal/. For a manual installation go to Plugins > Add New Plugin > Upload Plugin and select the zip file that you downloaded.
How to Use the Plugin
Once you have installed the plugin, you need to configure some settings by navigating to WP PayPal -> Settings.
Product
To create a buy button you need to create a product first (WP PayPal > Products). You can then add a shortcode block from your WordPress post/page editor and insert the following shortcode into it.
[wp_paypal_product id="1"]
Replace 1 with the actual product ID.
Publish/update the page and you will see the button on the front end.
Clicking this button will take you to the checkout page where payment options will appear.
Checkout
In order for the payment options to appear, your checkout page needs to contain the following shortcode.
[wp_paypal_checkout]
This will show the eligible payment methods the at checkout.
Manage PayPal Orders
When you receive a new order it will appear in the Orders menu.
Add-ons
WP PayPal/Payment Button for PayPal plugin comes with various add-ons that you can use to enhance its functionality on your website.
Custom Input
Custom Input add-on shows a text box with your buy now button. This lets you collect custom data from buyers.
Variable Price
Variable Price add-on shows a price input field with your buy now button. This lets buyers set the amount they wish to pay.
Contact Form 7 Integration
Contact Form 7 Integration add-on can show a pre-configured buy now button after a form submission. This allows buyers to make payments after a Contact Form 7 type form is submitted.
Mailchimp Integration
Mailchimp Integration add-on can automatically add the buyer’s email address to your chosen Mailchimp audience/list after a WP PayPal payment.
Order Export
Order Export add-on can be used to export order data to a CSV file.
Get All WP PayPal Add-ons
* Custom Input
* Variable Price
* Mailchimp Integration
* Contact Form 7 Integration
* Order Export
License: Unlimited Websites
Note:
* Do not purchase before setting up the core plugin first. The add-on is not at fault if the core plugin does not work on your website.
* Do not purchase if you are not sure about a feature, contact us instead.
* Do not purchase to ask for more features or make the product work in a certain way.
I am saving money to donate to Programs like the one that saved my Nephew a few months ago. I want to thank you for this plugin that allows me to do this and thank you on the behalf of Little Trenton Jocob as well whos life they saved.
Thank you so much for this awesome plugin. Is it possible to add a trial period to my PayPal subscription button?
@John, It’s possible. Please check the Creating a subscription payment button link for details.
hi, sorry total noob here. where do i put the donate button code?
thanks!
@nona, It’s just an additional feature like the download button. You copy and paste the shortcode into a post/page to create a PayPal donate button.
I recently uploaded WPpaypal and it failed to load the settings, and I cannot set the parameters of Paypal. WHat do I do?
@Bruce, This issue doesn’t occur on my development site. So I’m not sure what is actually causing it. If you are interested I can login to your site and investigate it.
I would like to put a PayPal “donate” button on our homepage, and I’ve installed/configured the plug-in. But like Nona (above), I can’t figure out where to put the “donate” shortcode to generate a button, and then tell it how to go to a specific module on the homepage. Is any other documentation available? The instructions on this page assume a level of knowledge that I don’t (yet) have. Thanks in advance!
@Eric, By homepage do you mean your theme template file? You can embed it anywhere in the content area of a post/page. But if it’s a PHP file you will need to tell WordPress to filter the shortcode:
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/do_shortcode/
Can you add variations to a product ?
@Michael, Unfortunately It’s not possible at the moment.
Hi. Nice plugin, but how do customers access product(s) added to the cart?
@Jamal, What do you mean by accessing products in the cart?
i meant when you click on “add to cart button” how do you access the cart to see products added to cart… Never mind, i just did a test and found out how it work…
Does it use session to add and keep your products in paypal cart? Thanks.
@Jamal, It’s controlled by PayPal. The plugin doesn’t do anything with the cart.
Regarding paying with credit card, You do get this option on the payment page. PayPal just minimises it and shows the PayPal option by default.
Another thing is: some paypal plugins allow people to pay with their card and not just with paypal, but this doesn’t have that function, does it?
Great plugin! Is there a way to select an amount for someone to pay for, ie, if the price is £5, I would like to give them the option of paying for 1, 2, 3 or 4 of them. And can I set it to open the Paypal page in a new window, rather than the same one?
@Jason, Unfortunately price variation option is still not available in the plugin.
Hello. I am trying to upload WP Paypal buttons to my WP site, but the directions do not match what I am seeing on the WP page. There is no Upload button for Plugins. There is nothing on the Admin screen that seems to correspond to these directions.
Please advise.
@Rexx, Do you have admin capability? I believe only an account with admin role can upload plugins/themes.
Hi
Is there any way to change the currency unit from $ to £?
Thanks
@Daniel, You can specify the currency code in the settings. You can also override it in a particular shortcode.
@admin,
How to override the currency using the shortcode? Do you have a sample?
Thanks in advance.
@miong, What type of button are you using?
I am using the “buynow” button. Current code is [wp_paypal button=”buynow” name=”Session” amount=”70.00″ undefined_quantity=”1″ ]
The settings is set to a currency of GBP, but the currency remains as USD inPaypal. Therefore how I can override it in the shortcode?
@Jermine, Please provide a link to your Buy Now button page so I can check the code.
Hi, your plugin is very nice!
I only don’t uderstand how is possible to use the function “Manage PayPal Orders” for check the people that pay your product 🙁 Can you give me more specifications?
Thank you!
@Robert, Are you referring to a function in the plugin code or the orders menu in the settings? You just use shorcode to create button. When someone pays for a product, PayPal sends notification to your site and it appears in the Orders menu.
So how does this work, I create a page on the site, and paste the buy nnow button, add to cart, and cancel and return code on the page? So for product variations, I’d need to create each indevidual page?
@Mellissa, That’s how it works. You don’t have to create a new page for each shortcode. You can have multiple shortcodes on the same page.
Is this simply a button creation plugin or can you transact on your website page.
I would like to have a subscription checkout on my own website without sending them to the Paypal website, does this plugin do that?
@Mike, that’s not possible unfortunately. It uses the PayPal standard API which sends the user to the PayPal site for the payment.
Hi
I have bought a site with this plugin to run paypal
www.premiumlogoshop.comhowever when you click on the buy it now button, I am taken to the wrong paypal account and displaying the wrong price. How would i edit this to correct the problem?Thanks
@Daniel, Have you updated your email address in the settings (WP PayPal > Settings)?
The readme shows how you can give parameters to a shortcode. I have several (almost identical) pages that will have 4 buttons each, but the only difference (page to page) will be price on the buttons. Is there a way to populate the price on those buttons from POST parameters from a form?
Thanks.
@Daniel, Unfortunately that’s not possible at the moment.
Is there a way to code the button to open the payment window in a new tab? Thanks!
@Brianna, I have just released an update to support this feature. You can now add
target="_blank"in the shortcode to open a PayPal button in a new tab.Hi im testing this out with sandbox but the orders arent showing up. Why is this?
@Stephen, Do you have the debug option enabled in the plugin settings? It would provide more information as to whether or not the plugin received a payment notification from PayPal.
sandbox test not working. error mg: “Please check your email address and password and try again”
Do i need to set up anything to work/test in sandbox?
PS: I am using an existing paypal account to test as a site user
@ISS, Which shortcode are you using? There is a good chance it’s broken. You need to copy and paste it as plain text to make sure there is no formatted character in it. Please provide a link to the page in question so I can take a closer look.
i am using the subscription code – something like this
[wp_paypal button="subscribe" name="test product" amount="3.50" recurrence="3" period="M" src="1"]do you have an email i can send the page link too
@ISS, You can use the contact form to get in touch.
Thanks i work it out.
2) My new question is that i dont see the order in the “order page” how long before the completed order appears in the wordpress order page?
2) Also it appears the “return” and “cancel” attributes cannot be used with the button=”subscribe” – i get the following error “The link you have used to enter the PayPal system is invalid. Please review the link and try again.” when i used the return attribute
@ISS, Do you have the debug option enabled? It will tell you whether or not the plugin received a payment notification from PayPal.
Yes i do sent it to your contact email
Thx
Awaiting you response. In the mean time here is some error mgs in the debug log that stands out:
– FAILURE :Received invalid response from PayPal
– FAILURE :Error response: cURL error 35: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure
Pls help. the full log has been send to your contact email
@ISS, I already replied to your email. As of June 30, PayPal has updated its services to require TLS 1.2 for all HTTPS connections. PayPal also requires HTTP/1.1 for all connections. Please make sure that your web server supports it so the plugin can connect to the PayPal server and verify the IPN.
Oh something most have gone wrong …. i did not get your email.
Anyway thanks for the latest info, i will speak to my server ppl about the tls issue