Plagued by Fundamental Design Flaws and Bug-Ridden

I have been using WordPress and WooCommerce for years on many websites. I’ve certainly seen my fair share of poor plugins but none as bad as this. While PayPal is a trusted name by consumers, I feel they continue to build a bad name amongst business owners who actually implement their payment platform to the end consumers; this plugin being yet another way which PayPal is tarnishing their established brand trust.

Systemic Code Design Flaws!
The core issue with this plugin lies in their fundamental approach to coding and integration with WordPress and WooCommerce. Instead of adhering to the established conventions and best practices that ensure compatibility and smooth operation, the developers have chosen to implement solutions in some of the most shortsighted and incompatible ways imaginable. This isn’t just a few isolated bugs–it’s about a systemic disregard for the principles of WordPress plugin development and absolute basic coding standards.

Continuous Stream Of Bugs
This plugin is riddled with bugs that are not just minor inconveniences but significant obstacles to running an online store smoothly. One day your checkout might be working, the next its not. You might have discrete bugs that only affect a subset of customers and these bugs go unknown until the one-in-a-thousand customers actually bother to report it. The non-conformity of this plugin leads to widespread issues, including conflicts with other plugins, JavaScript errors and unpredictable behaviour on the checkout. Instead of providing timely fixes or acknowledging the need to align with WordPress standards, they often dismiss valid concerns or offer workarounds or early-releases that break on the next update. I have tried this plugin a few times in the last few years, it’s always got different ways to break.

Use Another PayPal Plugin
For a payment gateway especially, it’s disappointing to see such a lack of adherence to essential coding standards and best practices. Until the developers undertake a comprehensive overhaul to address these systemic issues and align their plugin with WordPress conventions, I cannot recommend it, absolutely not, I took the time to write this review to warn others to stay away!

With the fee’s that PayPal charge then merchants deserve a reliable, well-supported plugin to facilitate the payments over PayPal. Merchants shouldn’t be loosing customers over PayPal due to their buggy checkout and waste thousands of dollars in developer time to diagnose & fix checkout problems.