83
Simple Shopping Cart
Pure relief for those who just want to sell a few things.
HealthyDeclining
83/100
Users enjoy the quick setup for small stores despite occasional PayPal integration issues.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.6★
215 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-6%
Declining
95 → 90 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining · -6% in the last year
95/day a year ago→90/day today
Reviews
what people actually saySimple Shopping Cart is widely praised for its ease of use, quick setup, and helpful support, making it a solid lightweight e-commerce option, though a few users have reported PayPal checkout errors and limited reporting features.
What people like
- +Easy to set up and use; simple and straightforward interface×11
- +Responsive and helpful support team×3
- +Seamless integration with payment gateways (PayPal, Stripe)×6
- +Suitable for small businesses or lightweight stores×3
- +Fast setup and quick test transactions×2
Common complaints
- −PayPal checkout errors and reliability issues
- −New PayPal button designs not always an improvement
- −Reporting dashboard lacks detailed analytics
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.64★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.60★
- 11%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 215 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-04-02★★★★★Great and easy plugindavidargence
- 2026-04-01★★★★★simple and effectivesebigbos
- 2026-03-20★★★★★Discovered many years agofunckytown
- 2026-02-23★★★★★Very Good!Mike K.
- 2026-01-03★★★★★Updating buttons at PayPal is a time consuming hassleloosefast
- 2025-05-13★★★★★UNBELIEVABLY easy to useedwardsmark
- 2025-05-07★★★★★Plugin is Easy to Usepatriciaburnette2018
- 2025-04-13★★★★★ma è incredibile!dizplay
- 2025-01-19★★★★★Works amazingly!reviewecon
- 2025-01-09★★★★★Great Plugin for simple E-Commercesersch33
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Simple Shopping Cart
Top eCommerce plugins, ranked by score.For developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
90
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
88
Prior 7-day baseline
135
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
2,014
Mean release-day peak (30d)
238
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
+2.3%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
17%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.55
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
86%
5★ share in analyzed sample
11%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.62 → 4.64★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered