This plugin adds “paypal_button” shortcode to display pay now, buy now, donation and add to cart PayPal buttons with facility to customize they paypal checkout page. After installation you would need to set your PayPal E-Mail address, Business Name (for donations) in “Settings->PayPal Buttons”. You can also set you companies logo in PayPal’s checkout page . It has numerous other option to allow all possible variant of the buttons. Some common usage of the shortcode are as follows
Pay Now Button:
[paypal_button type="paynow" amount="100"]
Buy Now Button:
[paypal_button type="buynow" name="WordPres Portfolio Theme" amount="100"]
Donation Button:
[paypal_button type="donate" amount="100"]
Add to cart Button:
[paypal_button type="cart" name="Computer Table" amount="100"]
Possible variants of PayPal buttons
Paypal Checkout Page with Company Logo
There are 16 attributes for this shortcode and all of them are option. If none of them is specified, it will look for the what has been configureding in Settings page. If nothing is set up in Settings page, It will try to use the website’s settings.
Shortcode Help Section
type:
(string) (optional) Type of transaction. Allowed Values are
Possible Values: ‘paynow’, ‘buynow’, ‘cart’ or ‘donations’
id:
(string) (optional) Product Number
Possible Values: Any numeric product id
email:
(string) (optional) Your PayPal E-Mail address.
Possible Values: A valid PayPal E-Mail address
name:
(string) (optional) Name of the Product
Possible Values: Any String
amount:
(numeric) (optional) Product price to be charged. Yes, you can left empty for user to input amount. This can be used for donations.
Possible Values: Any numeric value
quantity:
(numeric or string) (optional) Specfiy quantity as number or range or possible comma separated values. Leave empty to let user specify any quantity.
Possible Values: “1″ or “1,5,10″ or “1-10″
quantity_txt_postfix:
(string) (optional) Post fix text to be shown in quantity dropdown.
Possible Values: ” items” or ” products”
field_sep:
(string) (optional) HTML code to separate the generated visible HTML fields. Use “<br />” for new line.
Possible Values: “ ” or “<br />”
amount_prompt:
(boolean) (optional) Setting to “1″ will enable user to enter amount they would like to pay.
Possible Values: 1 or 0
echo_link:
(boolean) (optional) Set to “1″ for linked output of they payment
Possible Values: 1 or 0 Default:0
open_new_window:
(boolean) (optional) Set to “1″ to open payment page in a new window
Possible Values: 1 or 0
btn_url:
(string) (optional) Set to URL of the custom button image
currency:
(string) (optional) Currency of the Transaction.
Possible Values: ‘USD’ or ‘CAD’ or any currency code
tax_rate:
(numeric) (optional) Tax rate in percentage applied to the total price.
Possible Values: 0.0001 to 100
shipping_charges:
(numeric) (optional) Shipping charges for the product.
Possible Values: Any numeric value
btn_size:
(string) (optional) Set size of the button either ‘large’ or ‘small’.
Possible Values: ‘large’ or ‘small’
btn_display_cc:
(string) (optional) Display Credit Cards Logo under the button.
Possible Values: ‘yes’ or ‘no’
add_note:
(string) (optional) Let buyer add a note to order.
Possible Values: ‘yes’ or ‘no’
thankyou_page_url:
(string) (optional) Buyer will be redirect to this page after successful payment.
Possible Values: An absolute URL e.g. http://abc.com/thankyou
checkout_logo_url:
(string) (optional) URL to your Logo image.
Possible Values: An absolute URL e.g. http://abc.com/logo.png
checkout_header_border_color:
(string) (optional) Set border color of the checkout page header.
Possible Values: A HTML Hexa-decimal code. e.g. FFFF00, 999999 etc
checkout_header_bg_color:
(string) (optional) Change background color of the checkout page header.
Possible Values: A HTML Hexa-decimal code. e.g. FFFF00, 999999 etc
checkout_bg_color:
(string) (optional) Change background color of the entire checkout page
Possible Values: A HTML Hexa-decimal code. e.g. FFFF00, 999999 etc
PayPal Button shortcode setting page
Update 1: Plugin now supports custom payment button.
Update 2: Plugin now supports 17 languages to translate the payment buttons.
Really really cool! I’m going to check this out now! Probably the easiest of the ones I’ve looked up so far!
Dev testing it on my site. I’ll try to remember to update here if/when I use it. I’ll definitely give it a rating!
This looks great, and I have just installed it. However I must be blind as I can’t see where the shortcode is created once I configure the settings I want. Please advise…
Thanks man.
A shortcode is not a visual element like widget or post types that you find in admin panel. But you need to use it in your post or page or in a PHP file. For example, to display a buy now button for amount of $100. You would paste the following code in your post/page.
[paypal_button type="buynow" amount="100"]
If you want to use it in one of your PHP file, you can use do_shortcode function.
You can read more about it on Codex at following URL.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API
Thanks – I get it. Very useful thank you.
Hi, this is an awesome and simple way of adding paypal functionality to a website but, I have one question. Is it possible to have it where the user can change the quantity? Thanks!
Thanks Maxwiz for contacting and making me improve this plugin.
I just added quantity attribute to shortocode. Please upgraded to version 1.1 to enjoy new attributes. You can specify a a particular fix quantity, a range or specific values to be chosen by the user Or you can leave it empty to let user fill in the quantity they want. I hope it will work for you. Enjoy!
p.s. Do rate if it helped you.
What a great plugin, thanks! And quantity feature is really fantastic, except it doesn’t seem to be calculating once it the order is sent to PayPal. I’m using it with the “Donate Now”, [paypal_button type="donate" name="2013 Calendar" amount="25" quantity="1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10"] which gives a very nice drop down quantity on the page but no matter what quantity I choose it always says $25 on the checkout page.
I might be doing something wrong, or maybe there’s a specific PayPal setting I need.
Anyway, don’t absolutely need it since the site I’m working on is for a non-profit collecting donations, but it would be great to have!
Again, thanks for a very cool, easy-to-configure plugin!
Thanks Tricia!
Unfortunetly, PayPal ignore quantity field for donate buttons. Anyway, I implemented a workaround in newer version of the plugin. Please upgrade to latest version to enjoy the trick. By the way, you can also use range feature for quantity, your shortcode will look like [paypal_button type="donate" name="2013 Calendar" amount="25" quantity="1-10"].
Hope it solves your problem.
Thanks Mohsin!! Just upgraded plugin and it works! AWESOME!
I was having trouble using the range feature, some characters regarding array appeared at the top of my page where I placed the shortcode, but I’ll try it again.
Just rated the plugin on wordpress.org! Have a great weekend and thanks again!
Tricia (karsaygirl)
Hi,
Very nice plugin! Are you also planning to install a ‘shipping table’. In that case the customer can choose betwoon ‘National shipping’ and ‘International shipping’.
Kind regards,
Wieger
Hey Wieger, Thanks for the suggestion. I will add it to my to-do list. But, unfortunately, it wont be available in near future because of the busy schedule. I hope you can understand
I understand. Good luck and thanks for the reply…
Hey. I love the Plugin for my new client but I’m receiving an error upon preview..Large Button with CC under then next to it is this:
onclick=”return adjustPayPalQuantity184(this);”>
Fix suggestion…I’m sure I’m missing something. Thanks, CBPOE
Thanks Carla, for throwing this big. To fix, please upgrade the plugin.
Can someone explain the Shortcode Help Section? I have no idea what to do with any of that?
Also, when my product is added to cart it says “Item 8″ which I think was a default in some template, but I don’t know how to change it…?
Here’s the page I’m talking about…
http://www.fpvmonkey.com/the-honey-badger-quad-frame-kit/
Actually, Your Post/Page ID is treated as Product/Item ID. If you want to change it you can use “item_number” attribute of the shortcode. Item number is a unique product ID of your store.
This is a great plug-in! I’m just having an issue with how it is displaying on my page, and not sure if it’s something I have to go look at in my style sheets. There is a HUGE gap between text and the generated button below it, even though I wanted the button to be in line with the text. I am not doing anything to make it drop down to another line, so I’m wondering what I might be able to do to have it display all together on the same line.
I guess, you stylesheet is adding margins. There are number of solutions to making it inline with text. One possible way that might work for you, is to wrap the shortcode in a span like
[paypal_button]and add following CSS to your stylesheet.span.paypal_button form{ margin:0 !important; padding:0 !important; display:inline !important;}
If that does not work for your scenario, another work around is to use tables.
Good Luck
p.s. add “!important” to make sure that it applies.
Thanks, Mohsin. I will try this.
Hey there! The plugin is awesome, it was exactly what I was looking for!
I have two little things to ask:
1.) Can I change the default language of the PayPal page? It shows up in english, can I change this somewhere?
2.) I have a button shortcode [btn size="large" url="#"]…[/btn] …how can I manage to put in the paypal link to the url?
Thanks Phil, I am glad you like this plugin. Here are answers
1) Not yet, I am looking forward to add it you can expect it in 2-3 days. If you cant wait, you can use custom button technique to use with the PayPal’s translated button.
2) This shortcode has “echo_link” attribute to output a link to the payment, But I am afraid you can not use it because “btn” shortcode require a string that starts with “http://”. You can use either one of the shortcode “btn” or “paypal_button” but not one inside one another. But, you do have option to use the Payment URL as given in the link above.
Thank you for the quick reply!
I can wait a couple of days, that’s no problem!
Is there no other work around for the btn issue?
I mean it’s not a big thing either, I can just create a custom button that resembles the themes button… but would’ve been neat.
If you can create a custom button, then you can use “btn_url” attribute to specify URL to the button image. Or if its an html code, you can get the payment url method (same page I gave earlier) to make your code linkable.
Hey Phil, New upgrade is ready you can upgrade the plugin to enjoy the button translation. By the way, PayPal does not support all languages for all buttons but I hope you will get the translation of what you choice. thanks
This is a fabulous tool! Really impressed. I will definitely give a good review.
Thanks so much!
Thanks, I appreciate that.
This is a great plugin thank you! Can you help with one small thing? I cannot change the language to anything other than Danish. If I select another language then hit save it reverts back to Danish. Any ideas why? Thanks
Yes, you pointed out a bug, Nick. Please re-download and activate the plugin. It should fix the problem.
Cheers!
Will do Moh thanks again! I will definitely contribute and give the plugin a good review
Thanks, I appreciate that.
I really appreciate this, it’s going to come in handy. But I have to confess I have no idea what to do, being that I’m a complete novice with WordPress. Am I to copy and paste the shortcode of my choosing into the page I want? Is there code I’m supposed to be adding? I just have no idea. Please help. Thanks a lot.
Yes, you need to copy a code (like below) and paste it in your page or post. thats it. Assuming, you need a buy now button.
[paypal_button name="YOUR_PRODUCT_NAME" amount="YOUR_PRODUCT_CHARGES" business="YOUR_PAYPAL_EMAILADDRESS"]Change the words in capitals with your own settings. There are many other options you can customize from “Settings->PayPal Button” page.
Ok. Thanks a lot!
Is there any way to have the Shipping & Handling just show as a “convenience fee” or “processing fee”?
unfortunately, not, these are managed and displayed at PayPal and we do not have access to change it.
Hi Moh. This button works great! I’m only having one small problem. I’m trying to center it at the bottom of the post. I even center the [paypal_button] shortcode in the post formatting options, but no matter what it defaults to the bottom left of the screen. Is there a way to change this?
Thanks fullmetalmikey for appreciation. Post formatting does not center it because the button reside in blocked form element. Please put following css in your theme’s style.css to center it.
form.paypal_button_form {text-align:center !important}Please note that it will be applied to all the button in your website.
Thank you for your prompt response and solution. That worked perfectly! I donated and will give your plugin a good review. Thanks again!
This looks to be a great plugin. I made a test page and the shortcode worked fine. However, when I tried to put it in a text widget, the widget just shows the literal text of the code and not the button. Do I need to do something special to make it work in a widget?
Yes, one special line of code to enable execution of shortcodes in widgets
add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');Add above line to your theme’s functions.php
That worked like a charm! Awesome!
I had a question about checkout_logo_url. I put the URL of a PNG file that is 217×90 (so within the max size) in both the default setting field and as an argument in the shortcode. However, the graphic doesn’t show up on the checkout page. Can you please have a look? http://low-forecast.com/
First of all few customization features require PayPal Premier or Business account. I guess, you are using PayPal personal account. Secondly, the Logo URL you are providing is actually leading to a wordpress page instead of Image. Please use image URL which is in your case is
http://low-forecast.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/logo_paypal.png
Oh, okay. Thanks for pointing it out. I guess I’ll let my finance guy know he may need to make it premier or business. thanks!
Hi, this really looks almost like what I’m looking for, but I have a question: would it be possible for the client to insert the price themselves, in a text box?
What I want to do is create a “pay now” page for a chalet rental so that clients can pay their week online. It won’t be displayed on the website, but I’ll send the link to the pay page by email to clients who confirmed their booking for them to pay by cc. The thing is that there are loads of possible prices depending on how long they stay and on what dates. So I want them to enter the price themselves before paying. You see?
Is that possible with your plugin? In fact, the principle is a bit like a donation button where you can enter the amount you want to give, but with the “pay now” button.
Many thanks for your time.
Well, this is very nice scenario you outlined. Plugin does not support it yet. But, if you can wait for couple of days. It will be included in next upgrade.
Cheers!
Wow, that was a quick answer, thank you very much, I’ll wait indeed!
garymael, new version is out with your suggested feature added. cheers!
Oh great! Many thanks for this addition to your plugin. I’m downloading it now
(an other great add would be to be possible to upload our own button, assorted to our website’s theme)
You already have this option, you can use one custom button for all (configure URL in setting page) or you can specify custom button for each shortcode using “btn_url” attribute. Both of these should be a link to an image.
Ah well, you though of everything! That’s pretty cool. Thanks again.
Do I need the ” when I want to specify the parameters? Like amount=”151.50″,or will amount=151.50 work just as fine?
It is preferred to use ” all the time but it is a requirement if you have spaces in the value. So, I highly recommend to use it because avoiding it may break your code.
Again and again I’m amazed by your work and support!
Can I create a widget where I can have an input box, so that customers can type in a value and then click a button to get linked to paypal with the amount they just typed in?
Thanks Phil,
For the widget, you can use default Text widget and paste in the shortcode. Attribute “amount_prompt” should be set to “1″ to let user enter they payment amount as explained above. Cheers!
I’m using Donation and it doesn’t work. I’m sure you are able to fix this with your awesomeness?
Sorry for the late response, I just tested the donation button in a text widget with choice of user filled amount. It worked fine.
Hi this plugin is really great and easy to use. Need to know if it is possible to have a subscription type for automatic monthly donations for those who want to donate monthly via paypal/ card?
Dane, Unfortunately, It does not support any kind of subscription yet. I am thinking about adding it but it wont be available in near future though. Thanks for taking interest in my plugin.
When I create donate buttons via PayPal button tool for html sites, customers were automatically sent to a PayPal generated Thank You page. Is this true with this plugin, or do I have to create a custom page?
Thank you page is not required. If you do not configure it, customer is redirected to PayPal’s thank you page.
This tool is wonderful! I’m trying to get my custom button to show. I put in a link to a .png file, but it’s still showing the default Pay Now button. Any thoughts?
Never mind! I updated the plugin and it’s showing now.
Does this plugin only work on pages & posts? I want to put it in my widget area. Thank you.
You can use the shortcode in text widget. To make it work please you need to enable execution of the shortcodes in widgets. Please use snippet in this article.
Hi – thank you so much for this plugin – it works great! I have 1 request – can you add dropdown functionality ie:
Small $25
Medium $50
Large $75
thanks!!!!!
Hello Mohsin,
Thank you very much for this plugin. It really simplifies adding basic Paypal features to a site. Nice.
I have an issue I have not been able to resolve. Not sure if it is a bug or my ignorance causing it. The site is a standard 3.5.1 installation.
I have tried the following short-codes:
[paypal_button type="donations" name="Donation for event" amount_prompt="1" currency="USD"]
** Results in what looks like a missing image placeholder. When I click on that placeholder, it takes me to https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr
If I am logged into Paypal, that link generates the following error from Paypal:
“You have requested an outdated version of PayPal. This error often results from the use of bookmarks.”
If I am not logged it, Paypal tells me I need to log in to view the link. But then it just takes me to the default PP user page. Or it might say “Your session has timed out, please log in again.”
I have also tried:
[paypal_button type="donations" currency="USD" amount=""]
… and numerous other combinations.
The PAYNOW option works fine.
I will post this message on the WordPress support system too, because that way I will more clearly know when you have responded.
Thank you very much,
Jonathan
Please use “donate” or “donation” in the type attribute (i.e. without “s”). Secondly, I did not get any PayPal error or warning. Perhaps it is somehow connected to same “s”
Thanks. I will try it without the “s”. Although I must check if I even used an “s” on the site, as I typed those shortcodes into my note here by hand. Will let you know.
Thank you for this wonderful plugin! So far this is the most amazing thing I have seen, and I am new to WP!
I do have a question however, I have a pre-existing drop down menu made in Paypal with a few set values (prices & descriptions), can this be translated into this plug-in?
Thanks DMario, The feature you are talking about is still in development. It will be released in next upgrade. Stay tuned!
Can shortcodes be inserted in your paypal shortcode, will be very useful.
Whats that mean? how you want insert? Specifically which attributes?
insert a custom field shortcode into the price of your payapl shortcode. ex.
Buy Now Button:
[paypal_button type="buynow" name="WordPres Portfolio Theme" amount="[shortcode]“]
Thats a nice thought. Its on the roadmap for the next release. Thanks.
Hi. I like the simplicity of this plugin but for the life of me, I can’t figure out how to view cart or checkout without having to add another product to get to the cart. Am I missing something or do you have a magical spell I can cast?
Very basic but an awesome question. I am glad you asked it. Following is the URL to view the cart.
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_cart&display=1&business=YOUR_BUSINESSS_PAYPAL_EMAIL
You can either use your own button or link or PayPal’s button located here