Payment Button for PayPal plugin (also known as WP PayPal) allows you to easily create PayPal Buy Now buttons. It generates dynamic buttons using shortcodes that enable PayPal checkout on your WordPress site.

Your customers will be able to pay for your products using PayPal or Credit Card. This plugin makes it easy for you to set up your online e-commerce store.

Payment Button for PayPal supports PayPal Sandbox. PayPal Sandbox is a simulation environment which allows you to do test purchases between a test buyer and a seller account. This is to make sure that your store can process PayPal transactions without any issues. It also helps you get prepared before selling to real customers.

Payment Button for PayPal Add-ons

Payment Button for PayPal Features

Sell products or services using PayPal
Create PayPal buttons in a post/page using shortcodes
Accept once off payments
Accept donations from users
View or Manage orders received via PayPal buttons from your WordPress admin dashboard
Quick settings configurations
Enable debug to troubleshoot various issues (e.g. orders not getting updated)
Open PayPal log to see how order are being processed
Accept debit or credit card payments
Switch your store to PayPal sandbox mode for testing
Sell in any currency supported by PayPal
Charge shipping on your products or services
Send a purchase confirmation email to your customer after a transaction
Send a sale notification email to one or more recipients (e.g. the seller) after a transaction
Accept payments with PayPal smart payment buttons
Accept Pay Later Pay in 4 payments

Note: This is NOT an official PayPal product.

How to Use Payment Button for PayPal

Once you have installed this plugin you need to go to the settings menu to configure some PayPal settings (WP PayPal -> Settings).

PayPal Checkout Settings

Client ID: The client ID for your PayPal REST API app
Secret Key: The secret key for your PayPal REST API app
Currency Code: The default currency code for payments
Return URL: The redirect URL after a successful payment
Cancel URL: The redirect URL when a payment is cancelled
Checkout Page URL: The URL of the page where PayPal checkout options will appear

How to Create a Buy Now Button

To create a Buy Now button create a product first (WP PayPal -> Products). Now insert the shortcode into a page like the following:

[wp_paypal_product id="1"]

Replace 1 with the actual product ID.

How to Create a PayPal Checkout Page

To create a PayPal checkout page insert the shortcode into a page like the following.

[wp_paypal_checkout]

This is where payment options will appear.

For more information check the PayPal Checkout documentation page.

Payment Button for PayPal Emails

Payment Button for PayPal plugin comes with an “Emails” tab where you will be able to configure some email related settings.

Email Sender Options

In this section you can choose to customize the default From Name and From Email Address that will be used when sending an email.

Purchase Receipt Email

When this feature is enabled an email sent to the customer after completion of a successful purchase. Options you can customize here:

The subject of the purchase receipt email
The content type of the purchase receipt email. The default is “Plain Text”. But you can also set it to “HTML”
The body of the purchase receipt email.

Sale Notification Email

When this feature is enabled an email is sent to your chosen recipient(s) after completion of a successful purchase. Options you can customize here:

The subject of the sale notification email
The content type of the sale notification email. The default is “Plain Text”. But you can also set it to “HTML”
The body of the sale notification email.

You can use various email tags in the subject/body of an email to dynamically change its content. You can find the full list of available email tags in the WordPress PayPal plugin page.

Can the email messages be sent over SMTP? Absolutely. The following SMTP plugins have been tested:

SMTP Mailer
Gmail SMTP
WP Mail SMTP
Post SMTP
FluentSMTP
Easy WP SMTP