Hi there,

I recently updated to version 5.0.6 of the WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart plugin and am pleased with the improvements.

I have a feature request that I believe would enhance the plugin’s flexibility: Could you consider adding a custom hook in the calculate_cart_totals_and_postage() function? This would allow users to implement their own postal cost calculation routines.

Adding this hook would significantly increase the customization options available, making the plugin more versatile for various use cases. The hook could look like that:

/**
 * Custom hook to allow modification of the postage cost.
 *
 * This filter allows developers to provide their own custom postage cost calculation routine.
 * It gives access to the WSPSC_Cart class instance which can be used for additional context
 * or logic when calculating the postage cost.
 *
 * @since 5.0.7
 *
 * @param float        $postage_cost The default postage cost calculated by the plugin.
 * @param WSPSC_Cart   $this The instance of the WSPSC_Cart class, providing
 *                           context and additional methods/properties if needed.
 * @return float The modified postage cost.
 */
$postage_cost = apply_filters('wspsc_custom_postage_cost', $postage_cost, $this);

Many thanks for the good work,
regards Valentin

Is there a setting to disable the collection of Cart Orders so that we are not holding any personal data on the website

We are using WP Simple Shopping Cart Version 5.0.6 with PayPal – looks to have updated last on 12th August 2024. Cart orders are no longer getting recorded on the site, and no email notification. I have started the have checked with a payment, with the debug log file running, but this does not record anything either ([09/05/2024 11:46 AM] – SUCCESS : Log file reset – but no new notifications)…

Still getting PayPal notifications for successful payments, so we can follow up orders through them but…

I have the box checked to collect the shipping address on Paypal, but the email I get for the sale notification does not have it, just name and email.

I do not have charges for shipping set up, as everything includes shipping. Could this be the reason?

Everything else works as expected

Thanks for your help, Ray

I’m currently using WP Simple Shopping Cart v 5.0.6, Accept Stripe Payments v 2.0.87, and WordPress 6.6.1.

Today, an email was received stating that a customer ordered an item. After checking the site’s Stripe account, it seems that the money for the order was successfully accepted.

However, under CART ORDERS > CART ORDERS, the order does not appear.

Digging a bit deeper, STRIPE PAYMENTS > ORDERS shows the following:

• INCOMPLETE: ORDER CREATE
• PAID: PAYMENT COMPLETED

I’m inclined to ship the item because the money was received and the customer’s billing address can be found on the email as well as on the Stripe transaction.

But I’m still puzzled why the order doesn’t show up under CART ORDERS > CART ORDERS. Is there an error in my settings that would cause this to happen?

Hi! I would like to add an image to the e-mail the customer receives. Is that possible?

I was trying to switch to the PayPal PPCP and having issues with the button not displaying as they should.

I have followed the instructions in the documentation to the T and made sure to check and uncheck everything required, i have also installed a Cache clearing plugin to clear the cache, i have also cleared the cache on my browser, mobile and tablet to see if that helps but cant seem to get the buttons to appear.

On another post i saw to make sure not to have the following feature Enable PayPal Smart Checkout?enabled, which I have done as well and have also deleted token cache many times with the button in the plugin.

i did also disconnect PayPal and reconnect it to see if that would help and it is connected now and there are the API credentials there and working. Just wanted to mention that as well.

Is there something im missing?

• This topic was modified 4 months ago by bun18ette.

Bonjour, j’utilise sur mon site des liens vers paypal pour effectuer des paiements. Un commercial vient de m’appeler en m’indiquant qu’il faudrait que j’effectue une mise à niveau du site pour bénéficier d’un meilleur taux (1.2% contre 2.09% à chaque transaction). Or je ne sais pas si cette extension peut le faire et si oui comment c’est possible. Cela fait un moment que je cherche et je ne trouve malheureusement rien.

Merci pour toute aide apportée.

Pierre

I have a couple of issues, the first is not being able to get the new PayPal PPCP buttons to work, but i at least have the old paypal button there on the website so thats something at least.

My big problem is the cart on a mobile device, when you click add to cart i get the error “The link you followed has expired”. So it wont let me add an item to a cart at all.

i have tried clearing the cache like i have read in a couple of other posts, but it still does the same thing. I can checkout on a computer but on a mobile phone or tablet i get that same expired link line and not able to do anything at all.

Hey,
I’m using this plugin and its working really well – I’m using within a members website (Paid Membership Pro) and I’m blocking all access to the wp-admin for non admin users, so trying to access the Invoice which uses wp-admin/post.php?post= breaks as the member cannot use that.

Is there a shortcode I can set up on a custom invoice page to display the information from the invoice?

Hi! I am doing some sandbox testing with Paypal and noticing the phone number is not being captured. How can I fix this?

Thanks!

I’ve been searching and also playing around, but I have not seen a template for a shop page. Do you have one? I was going to dump NextGen gallery, and wondering what my options are. Do you have a way to create galleries in this plugin? So far, it appears to be a very labour-intensive process, especially if one has a lot of images, like me.

I had used WP SImple Shopping Cart for a few years with NextGen Gallery, but then I took the shopping cart off my site for a while. Now I am putting it back on, but I am having trouble displaying the Add to Cart button within the Gallery. It’s the way I had done it before. I was in touch with NextGen gallery support, but they think I need to check here with this plugin. The code shows up, but not the button. I have tried a variety of things, but haven’t found the right combination. Currently, I have included in the page the following:

[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”23″ template=”wp-cart” display=”thumbnail”]

[show_wp_shopping_cart]

• This topic was modified 4 months, 3 weeks ago by Deborah.

Hiya, hope you are very well. I actually think the plugin is great. But for some technical reason I am not getting the email notifications to work. I’ve tested the payment about 7 times, adjusting certain settings that I thought might make the difference. The payment and confirmation emails from PayPal work every time. But I’ve not recieved a simple email notifcation for the buyer or from the seller. Pretty frustrated by now. Do you have the solution? Hope so. If there are any specifc details that I can try, then please detail them. For example, if I should use a SMTP plugin, then what are the specifics of how I have that integrate with the Simple Shopping Cart plugin? (just an example, elaboration is king) Thanks so much in advance.

I have used the plugin and thoroughly tested it and it works fine BUT only when I am logged in to WordPress.

If am not logged into WordPress then when I add to Cart the checkout button is updated with how many items added but when clicked it says the Cart is Empty. On returning to the Shop page the Checkout button indicates no items but say I added 3 items previously if I now add another item the 0 items changes to 4 items (i.e. the previous 3 +1) but again the cart still shows empty.

Short version: Adding an item to the cart when logged out of WordPress results in the cart display its empty when its not.

• This topic was modified 4 months, 3 weeks ago by stevemarsden.

Hi, I just upgraded to Simple Cart version 5.0.5 and switched from Paypal smart checkout to Paypal PPCP (new API). But the Use PayPal Profile Based Shipping is not working for me anymore. Any reason why? Thanks

Hi guys,

Until yesterday I had this piece of code working fine and now it give me the following error:

echo (do_shortcode(“[wp_cart_display_product name=’ $name ‘ price=’ $product_price ‘ thumbnail=’ $image ‘ var1=’ $var1 ‘]”));

Error! Special characters like [, ], <, > are not supported in the product name.

Any idea why? thanks

As I plan to use the Plugin for more of private matter, than an offical Sop. Is there anyway to use Family and Friends via PayPal directly OR deactivate Paypal alltoghther, so that you just get an email oft the order and the Buyer gets an email with the bank details?

Love WordPress Simple Shopping Cart! Worked immediately for me in browsers: Opera, Chrome, Firefox and Edge. Only loaded plugin last week: v5.0.5.

However, whenever I select setting ‘Allow Shopping Cart Anchor’ the shopping cart no longer appears, upon Add Item, in browsers: Chrome, Firefox and Edge. Though it works fine in Opera. As soon as I deselect setting ‘Allow Shopping Cart Anchor’, and upon Add Item, the shopping cart reappears in browsers: Chrome, Firefox and Edge, registering each previous instance of Add Item.

Obviously, for now, I have deselect setting ‘Allow Shopping Cart Anchor’ on my web site. Though it would be great to get this useful setting compatible with all browsers, asap.

Also, I noted that in browsers: Chrome, Firefox and Edge the Add Item hover colour (light blue) does not appear at all but does in Opera.

Does anyone else experience the above issues?

• This topic was modified 5 months, 2 weeks ago by ac.

Hello at all.

Great plugin that you created, but there is no way to have the cart in ajax ?

Thanks Nicolas ??

The message:

“You are using the old PayPal Smart Checkout option in the “Simple Shopping Cart” plugin. Please switch to the new PayPal PPCP option for better security and functionaliy.

Switch to the new PayPal Commerce Platform API by configuring the API credentials”

Just won’t go away even after we have successfully switched to the new PayPal PPCP option. We click x to remove it, but it just keeps coming back when we go to another page on the backend of our WordPress website. How do we get rid of it?

Users try to pay, then a pop-up error message appears: “*** Forbidden. Your request has been detected as spam. ***”

Because of this, they try to pay again with whatever items are in the cart. However, what they don’t realize is that the payment DID go through. So what ends up happening is that users keep trying to pay, and thus payments go through multiple times. So then they contact us for refunds (which we are happy to do, but it’s just very frustrating and inefficient for everyone).

What is causing this, and what can we do to fix this? This never happened in the first few years, but now it’s been happening for majority of our buyers in the past few months.

Can you help?

Title says it all. Like the plugin, but I need to add a custom variable to each of my product, so I can process extra data on my side.

This would have been perfect, but doesn’t work with Stripe (it seems):

[wp_cart_button name="Test Product" price="19.95" item_number="SKU12345"]

Hi. This is more of a feature request.

I presume the WordPress Simple Shopping Cart is currently using Stripe API version 2022-08-01. It would be nice if we could upgrade to a newer one (I think 2024-04-04 is the latest when writing this) as Stripe has gained some neat new payment methods lately.

We’re switching to the new Paypal PPCP and are having really uneven results connecting the Sandbox and Live accounts.

First I tried setting up the Sandbox account and got to the point where it was supposed to send an email to confirm and activate the account. The email never arrived.

I moved on to try the Live account. This time the email never arrived but somehow an option appeared allowing a text to be sent. This worked. The Live account is set.

Returning repeatedly to the Sandbox, no email has ever arrived and the option to switch to text, or even request a re-send of the missing email has ever been offered. This appears to be both a malfunction and a design flaw. It would be really nice to be able to use the Sandbox account!

Please advise.

Both Digital Downloads and WP Simple Shopping Cart are capable of linking with Stripe but it’s not in use. I tried deactivating both plugins but it continues to show up in cookie scans. Is this from your plugin? In the process of making changes for the new “Google Consent Mode” we became aware of a cookie unrelated to either Google or the CookieYes banner, identified as “m.stripe.com“, with no description and no category. It’s on the Appointments page, but apparently not connected with Acuity.

The CookieYes people annotate it with this: This cookie does not have a script URL pattern. It is required for blocking the cookie prior to obtaining user consent. I would like to either know how to give it a script URL pattern, description and category or how to locate it so it can be removed.

I am testing this program and have had great results but we use Stripe instead of Paypal. Your documentation here (How Shipping Address is Collect) states that the plugin utilizes PayPal or Stripe’s shipping address collection during checkout. However in testing ,Stripe does not display a section for the customer to include their shipping address and in most cases I would think this is a must.

Is there something I need to add in settings or in our Stripe account to get this presented to the customer?

Thank you for creating such a great and easy plugin.

Hi there,

for al long time we use the “simple shopping cart plugin” for our shop in germany. We use PayPal-Payment to complete the order. Now more and more customers from other countries like to order in our shop. So far – so good, but…

Since our customers have complete the order and switch to paypal for checkout, we cant proof the destination country and therefor the transport-costs at all. We use a fixed DHL-price for German-Inside-Deliveries and that will be OK. But if we have customers from countries outside the EU, we should eb able to calculate “new” transport-costs “before” prepare the checkout in Paypal.

Is there a chance or a hack to do this in simple shopping cart anyway? Or is there a chance to deal with other “easy-to-use” solutions or other plugins?

Thanks for help and reply,

Volkmar

I tested this product yesterday, 28th January 2024, and created an item on our website to test. It worked at first, albeit a little flakey. I have just come to test to buy now button again, with no changes since yesterday, only for a PayPal error to pop up stating: “error occurred during PayPal checkout process”. Our PayPal account is active and live on the app – there should be NO errors, but there is – which would then lose every single sale. We have a PayPal business account, and need something reliable for our business. This is not it, and it fell down at the first hurdle.

This plugin simply cannot be trusted, and needs to be rock solid. Imagine having this plug in installed, then ‘thinking’ it is working, you then go on holiday for 2 weeks, to come back and it was just broken – you’d have lost an absolute fortune.

This is not the solution unfortunately.

See here for what is happening, and like I said, it WAS working yesterday, and nothing has been changed:

https://app.screencast.com/sMhLdC68YJaD8

Pages also not showing up, which again, were working yesterday, with no changes:

https://app.screencast.com/4VaaUR0xbRZYk

Do you see a problem with this? Everything worked before the 5.0.1 update so we are running the old one (4.7.2) now and its working. Please help!

Order our ” 2014-2023?4?Pack Touring L.E.D. Gauge Modification?Here “160.00 ?[wp_cart_button name=”4 Pack L.E.D. Gauge Modification” price=”160.00″ shipping=”16.00″ var1=”Number|red|white|blue|green|orange|pink|purple|” var2=”Needle|red|white|blue|green|orange|pink|purple|” var3=”Odometer|red|white|blue|green|orange|pink|purple|”]