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.
Great Plug-In! When I try to override the “subscribe” button it won’t seem to use my image override, just the default.
I’m not sure if that’s a bug, perhaps an incentive to upgrade, or (typical) user error on my part here. The image I’m trying does work with other button types.
Thanks for your time!
@Jim, Please provide a link to the page in question so I can take a look.
Hi!
I was just building a separate test page to send you, and of course in so doing the symptom went away. But I think I see how/why it happened. I had the src=”1″ in the wrong position within the block of code. It was at the end, after my filepath and success/cancel page definitions, but moving it back in the order looks like it’s fixed things.
Thanks for your time and quick reply!
I am having the same issue, but it fixes when you refresh the page
https://hoskinsfitness.com/programsthe chosen button then shows
same problem with the open in new page option, only works when you refresh the page
doesn’t affect buy it now buttons
I have tried in Avada & Astra Themes, same issue
here’s my code:
[wp_paypal button="subscribe" name="Weight Loss Coaching & Training" amount="69.00" recurrence="1" period="M" src="1" button_image="https://hoskinsfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/btn_signupnow-1.png" target="_blank"]Thanks for what seems to be a great plugin.
I just installed it on a page ins sandbox mode.
The button that shows on the page is labeled “UNDEFINED” instead of the name of my product.
Here is the code that the plugin generated:
Hi there,
Thanks for the awesome plugin.
Could you please resolve the button alignment issue. By default, the subscribe button is showing on the left side, but I need to show this at the center align. How can I achieve that?
Thanks in advance.
Hello. Are you responding to comments? I’m sent one in but haven’t heard back. I have a US organization that is using it for subscriptions, but they are unable to have people outside the US subscribe. When someone outside the US tries to subscribe, they get a message saying that shipping outside the US isn’t possible. But we’re not shipping anything. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks!
@Lorie, What shortcode are you using? Do you have any shipping related options configured in your PayPal account?
Here’s the shortcode:
[wp_paypal button="subscribe" name="My product" amount="25.00" recurrence="1" period="M" src="1"]It’s not my paypal account and I’ve advised that it must be on that end. It’s happening with the PayPal option and the credit card option. Thanks,Lorie
@Lorie. Thanks. I just used the exact shortcode on my development site. It’s working fine and PayPal is not showing any error. In fact, the shortcode is not passing any shipping related parameter to PayPal. So the error that you are getting must have something to do with your account.
[wp_paypal button="buynow" name="My product" amount=""]is not working@Rahul, Amount cannot be left empty unless it’s a donate button. Alternatively, you can try the extension which allows you to do so with a buy button.
Hi Noor! Thanks for this plugin!!
How can I receive the array with the response data? I am programming a theme and would need to know the result of the paypal transaction. Thanks again!!
Or, as a solution, it would be enough to be able to send a custom tnx_id to Paypal and keep it.
@David, You can listen to this action hook that gets triggered after a PayPal notification is processed in the plugin.
do_action('wp_paypal_ipn_processed', $ipn_response);I tried with this in my page code (and in functions.php), but nothing:
function wp_paypal_callback( $ipn_response ) {
echo "I'M HERE!";
print_r($ipn_response);
}
add_action( 'wp_paypal_ipn_processed', 'wp_paypal_callback', 10, 1 );
@David, This happens in the backend after receiving IPN from PayPal. With echo or print_r statement you won’t really know if the code was executed.
ok, thanks.
Hi again Noor,
Is it possible to make payments to other users with this add-on?
@David, What do you mean by other users?
This should work on a mobile device viewing the site also, correct? We have installed on our site but when someone tries to purchase using a mobile device it will open separate window and make them log into Paypal. It doesn’t do that on a desktop.
@Kelly, This is fully controlled by PayPal.
Hi, I am trying to setup a cart with several items but on testing it only adds one item to the cart.
Below is the shortcode I am adding but after adding the first product to the cart and then pressing “Continue Shopping” and then adding the second item to the cart the first item is removed leaving only the second item hence the cart will only ever show one item and not multiple items!!!
[wp_paypal button="cart" name="My product" amount="1.00"][wp_paypal button="cart" name="My product2" amount="2.00"]Regards
Martin
UPDATE FROM MY PREVIOUS COMMENT MAY 10th**
I have tried again this morning and today it will allow me to add multiple items to the cart.
HOWEVER… I want to add a FIXED handling fee to the order [say £10] for no matter how many items a customer orders but when I add the below shortcode it adds £10 to EVERY items that goes in the basket.
Please can you advise what I am doing wrong?
[wp_paypal button="cart" name="Red Hat Small" amount="15.00" handling="10.00"][wp_paypal button="cart" name="Red Hat Large" amount="15.00" handling="10.00"]Regards
Martin
@Martin, This setup is not going to work since the cart functionality is fully controlled by PayPal.
@Martin, This setup is not going to work since the cart functionality is fully controlled by PayPal. You can try using it with a buy button instead.
Hi, Thanks for your reply. The buy button is not an option as this will only allow my customer to purchase a single item? I need customers to purchase multiple items but with just one delivery cost.
Regards
Martin
Using the basic subscription code:
[wp_paypal button="subscribe" name="My product" amount="1.00" recurrence="1" period="M" src="1"]opens a new window to the Paypal home page (I have sandbox turned off).Also, using my own image doesn’t work. My image is ignored and the Paypal subscription is used instead. This is the custom code I use:
[wp_paypal button="subscribe" name="Services" amount="100.00" recurrence="1" period="M" src="1" button_image="http://mysite.com/images/myimage.png" no_shipping="1" return="http://mywebsite.com/thank-you" cancel_return="http://example.com/payment-canceled"]Hi,
When I pay I don’t see the order in the Orders list.
How can you manage to display the orders ?
Thanks
@Jerome, Do you have the debug option enabled in the settings? If not please enable debug and make a test purchase to see if PayPal is sending notification to the plugin.
Hello
I just enabled the debug option and then made a payment, but nothing appears in the debug log
Please advise
Regards
@Jerome, That means the plugin did not receive any notification from PayPal. Do you have IPN enabled in your PayPal account?
Hi there,
I am using the following short code and it is working, except for the return function; all I am getting is the transaction complete page with no redirect to the quiz.
[wp_paypal button=”buynow” name=”NHS Charities Together” amount=”5.00″ currency=”GBP” return=”https://coronapubquiz.uk/quiz-2/”]
@Ben, Do you have auto return enabled in your PayPal account?
Hi.
Everything is working fine with the button I just implemented in my page, except for the fact that it goes to the “sandbox” mode of PayPal.
Why is that and how do I turn this off??
Thanks
@Kobi, Do you have it enabled in the plugin settings?
Hi @Noor, thanks very much for this awesome plugin. I’ve tried more than a few others and this one is the best.
One question. I can’t seem to get the *require* shipping address to work. Is it because we’re using the donate button?
The thing is that we are asking for donations, but we’re shipping a product to them as a gift for a donation (which we don’t want to dictate since many people cannot afford the “suggested donation,” while others can afford more). Is there a workaround for this? I already tried the “buynow” route, but of course that one forces the exact price.
PayPal does include a checkbox after they input their “billing” address that says: “check if you would like to share your address with [our nonprofit],” but if the donors neglect to check it, we won’t have an address to ship the product to. If you have a solution, I would be very grateful. Below is the shortcode and where it’s located:
https://hopedr.org/als/[wp_paypal button="donate" name="ALS Victory Package" amount="39.00" no_shipping="2" button_image="https://hopedr.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Secure-Donate-Button-Hope-Doctor185.png" target="_blank"]@Jack, I have just released an update to support this parameter in the donate button.
Unfortunately, I updated the plugin, but it is still not working (i.e. requiring a shipping address). We recently received a $45 donation, but we’re going to have to return it because the donor neglected to share their shipping address (we sent her an email, but she’s not responding and we dare not wait for her to complain and incur the wrath of PayPal).
Is it possible that REQUIRING a shipping address is NOT possible with a “donate” button?
Thanks again for your awesome plugin, and kind support!
@Jack, I just checked your donate button. The plugin is now passing this parameter to PayPal. So the only explanation is that PayPal ignores this parameter for a donate button.
I need a “Pay Your Bill” button – is this possible? – it would behave like a “Donate” button where you could enter an amount to pay. Having an optional “Invoice Number” field would also be helpful.
Thank you
Hi.
When I set the product name in Hebrew, it shows in Jibbrish inside PayPal.
As I am sure that PayPal support non-Latin text in this (and obviously they have the entire system available in Hebrew, among other languages), I suspect this is coming from the plugin.
How can I resolve this issue?
Thanks.
@Kobi, What shortcode are you using? Please provide a link to the page where you have the shortcode.
Hi Noor.
Thanks for your reply!
This is the shortcode I am using in this case:
https://www.shehair.co.il/straightener[wp_paypal button="buynow" name="Professional Hair Straightener" email="hairprofix@gmail.com" amount="550" currency="ILS" no_shipping="2" undefined_quantity="1" button_image="https://www.shehair.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/pp_btn_heb.png" return="https://www.shehair.co.il/order-thank-you/?src=straightener" cancel_return="https://www.shehair.co.il/straightener/?src=payment-canceled-straightener"]
Everything is working fine, except for the fact that if I change the product name under the “name” attribute here to something in Hebrew, it will show up in Jibbrish on PayPal’s payment page…
@Kobi, Thank you. Can you please provide the shortcode with the Hebrew name so I can test it on my site?
Hi Noor.
I cannot seem to be able to see more chained comments beyond this one (7002)…
I have already replied on it right after I got it from you, but can’t even see my own reply (and maybe you already replied back, and I can’t see that either).
Can you contact me in another way, so I can get your replies and info, and also check why I can’t see any more replies, as mentioned??…
Thank you.
Hi Noor.
Thanks for your reply!
This is the shortcode I am using in this case:
[wp_paypal button="buynow" name="מחליק שיער מקצועי" email="hairprofix@gmail.com" amount="550" currency="ILS" no_shipping="2" undefined_quantity="1" button_image="https://www.shehair.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/pp_btn_heb.png" return="https://www.shehair.co.il/order-thank-you/?src=straightener" cancel_return="https://www.shehair.co.il/straightener/?src=payment-canceled-straightener"]
Everything is working fine, except for the fact that if I change the product name under the “name” attribute here to something in Hebrew (like in this example above), it will show up in Gibberish on PayPal’s payment page…
@Kobi, According to PayPal the Default is based on the language encoding settings in your account profile. So if it’s set to UTF-8 in your account, you shouldn’t be having this issue. Can you please check your account to see if what they are saying is valid?
Hi,
Im facing a problem with the subscribe button. The shortcode is NOT working with the subscribe but if i change it to buynow it works fine. Adding button=”subscribe” just hides the button.
i need to make a monthly recurring plan and its getting me crazy. This is the shortcode.
[wp_paypal button="subscribe" name="My product" amount="2.99" recurrence="1" period="M" src="1"]
Please help
Thanks
@Fasseh, I have just released an update for the subscribe button. Please use the updated parameters in the shortcode.
I’d like to list five different donation opportunities. The user can specify an amount in each or nothing.
Is there a way to have five different products: [My product1], [My product2],…
Then at the end have pay now button such as
@Ed, Unfortunately this is not possible at the moment.
The plugin is great, thank you. How do I connect it to my PayPal? Right now it says “We can’t complete this donation. The receiver doesn’t have a valid PayPal account.”