Simple Shopping Cart
Lightweight, user-friendly plugin to sell products/services on WordPress. Easily add a shopping cart and start accepting orders in minutes.
4.6(215 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 2 days agoAs of April 2026, Simple Shopping Cart is a WordPress cart plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 215 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.0M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are up 3108% this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: Menu Cart for WooCommerce.
4.6/5215 reviews
10K+active installs
100%resolved
17 yearssince 2009
Overview
The Simple Shopping Cart plugin enables you to effortlessly add ‘Add to Cart’ buttons for your products or services directly on your website. This lightweight plugin transforms your WordPress site into a fully functional e-commerce platform, allowing you to sell products and services with ease.
With this plugin, your customers have the convenience of paying for their selected items using popular payment gateways such as PayPal and/or Stripe.
You can easily display the shopping cart on any post, page, or sidebar. The cart provides users with a clear view of their selected items, allowing them to adjust quantities or remove items effortlessly.
The plugin offers the newest/latest PayPal Commerce Platform (PPCP) checkout option. You can enable it in the settings menu of the plugin…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
simple and effective
by sebigbos·4 days ago·1 reply
….and the support is really great!
Great and easy plugin
by davidargence·5 days ago·2 replies
Very easy plugin for persons who wish to test an e-commerce. Special thanks to the support team for reactivity and efficience !
Discovered many years ago
by funckytown·2 weeks ago·1 reply
Its ease of use and numerous settings make it, in my modest opinion, the best shopping cart for WordPress. A huge thank you! I saw my first TRS80 in 1984
Very Good!
by Mike K.·1 month ago·1 reply
Very easy to work with. Perfect plugin.
Updating buttons at PayPal is a time consuming hassle
·3 months ago·2 replies
When logging into PayPal is a real hassle because coordinating with a client for codes, it’s great to have this simple method of adding a new virtual product or updating the cost of an old one right on your WordPress site. Also, the new PayPal buttons are not always an improvement on the way the ‘old’ ones worked or looked.
Download Trends
Today: 6KYesterday: 571This week: 13KPeriod total: 156K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.0+ requiredTested up to 7.0 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v5.2
53.6%
v5.1
14.7%
Other
12.1%
v4.5
8.0%
v4.4
6.3%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
5.2.8
- The deprecated PayPal Smart Checkout menu tab has been removed. If you were using it, switch to the new PayPal Checkout option. See the setup guide
- PayPal API connection related message updated to be more clear and informative.
- Gutenberg Block API v3 related console warning fixed.
- Fixed a small JS related issue for the cart.
Contributors
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