HandyPlugins PaddlePress – Paddle Integration for WordPress vs SaleMint – Paddle Checkout for WooCommerce

PaddlePress is a standalone payments plugin that connects Paddle with WordPress. Simply set up a Paddle account and start accepting credit cards on your WordPress site. Plugin Website: https://handyplugins.co/paddlepress-pro/ PaddlePress PRO Features PaddlePress PRO provides additional functionalities to integrate Paddle with WordPress. PRO features: Customer Dashboard: Let your members easily view and manage their account details. Membership Levels: Create an unlimited number of membership packages and map with your Paddle products or plans. Restrict Contents: Restrict your contents to particular membership levels easily. Downloads: Downloadable items are available under the customer’s account page. You can limit access to files based on the plans that customers have. Website License Management: If you decide to sell domain based licensing keys. You can let your users register their domains. Subscription Upgrades and Downgrades: Customers can move between subscription levels and only pay the difference. Emails: Send welcome emails to new members, email payment receipts, and remind members before their account expires automatically. By upgrading to PaddlePress PRO you also get access to one-on-one help from our knowledgeable support team and our extensive documentation site. Learn more about PaddlePress Pro WHO IS HANDYPLUGINS PADDLEPRESS PRO FOR? Website owners who want to sell “members-only” digital content or provide SaaS functionality on their WordPress website. Learn how to do that WordPress developers who want to sell WordPress plugins or themes. Checkout how easy to manage releases with HandyPlugins PaddlePress Pro. Contributing & Bug Report Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on Github. Some of our features are pro only, please consider before sending PR. If you like PaddlePress, then consider checking out our other projects: PaddlePress PRO – Paddle plugin for WordPress. Magic Login Pro – Easy, secure, and passwordless authentication for WordPress. SessionQuota Pro – Limit concurrent sessions in WordPress. Stream Integration Pro – Upload, sync, restore, and manage WordPress videos with Cloudflare Stream. Easy Text-to-Speech – Convert written content into high-quality synthesized speech for WordPress. Handywriter – AI-powered writing assistant for WordPress. WP Accessibility Toolkit – Tools to help make your WordPress site more accessible. Powered Cache – Caching and optimization for WordPress to help improve PageSpeed and Core Web Vitals. Documentation Our documentation can be found on https://handyplugins.co/docs-category/paddlepress-pro/

SaleMint – Paddle Checkout for WooCommerce connects your WooCommerce store to Paddle, a merchant-of-record payment platform built for digital products. Paddle handles the checkout, tax calculation, and invoicing, while this plugin keeps your WooCommerce orders fully in sync. Need subscriptions? This free plugin handles one-time payments. For recurring billing, free trials, a Buy Now button, a self-serve customer portal, and one-click invoices, see SaleMint Paddle Pro — it’s a superset of this plugin, so nothing you’re already using changes. Full setup docs: salemint.io/docs/paddle/introduction. How it works When a customer places an order, the plugin opens Paddle’s hosted checkout (modal or full-page). After the customer completes payment, the Paddle transaction ID is captured and attached to the WooCommerce order. The plugin then fetches the authoritative order totals from Paddle — including any tax Paddle applied — and updates the WooCommerce order to match, so your records are always accurate. Key features Classic checkout & WooCommerce Blocks — Works with both the classic WooCommerce checkout and the modern block-based checkout. Modal or full-page checkout — Choose between an overlay modal or a full-page Paddle checkout, configurable from the gateway settings. Sandbox / live mode — Toggle between Paddle’s sandbox environment for testing and the live environment for production, without touching any code. Digital-only enforcement — The Paddle payment option is automatically hidden whenever the cart contains a physical product that requires shipping. This prevents it from appearing for orders Paddle cannot fulfil. Paddle tax categories — Assign a Paddle tax category (e.g. standard, digital-goods, ebooks, SaaS, software) to products, with a configurable store-wide default. Supports all 13 Paddle tax classifications. Coupon sync — WooCommerce coupons applied at checkout are forwarded to Paddle as discounts, so the transaction amount in Paddle always reflects the discounted total. Cart fee sync — Extra fees added to the cart (e.g. handling fees or surcharges) are passed to Paddle as line items and synced back after payment, keeping both records consistent. Automatic order totals sync — After payment, the plugin synchronises WooCommerce order totals — including line-item subtotals, discounts, fees, tax lines, and the grand total — with the values reported by Paddle. An order note is added documenting the sync for auditing purposes. Transaction & invoice ID tracking — The Paddle transaction ID and invoice ID are saved directly to the WooCommerce order and visible on the order detail screen. Transaction URL — A direct link to the Paddle transaction is saved with each order so you can jump straight to the Paddle dashboard from WooCommerce. Refund support — Initiate full or partial refunds from the standard WooCommerce refund interface; the plugin forwards the refund to Paddle automatically. Invoice button on order screen — A one-click button on the admin single-order page lets you open or download the Paddle-generated invoice without leaving WooCommerce. Order-pay page support — Customers can retry a failed or pending payment from the WooCommerce order-pay page; billing details are pre-populated automatically. Light and dark themes — Choose between Paddle’s light and dark checkout UI to match your store’s design. Free vs Pro Everything above is free, forever. SaleMint Paddle Pro is an add-on that layers recurring billing and its supporting tools on top — install it alongside this plugin and every free feature keeps working unchanged. Pro adds: Per-product Paddle tax category override WooCommerce Subscriptions support Signup fee handling Free trial support Auto-renewal via webhook, with HMAC-SHA256 signature verification Early renewal Update payment method from My Account Self-serve customer portal Buy Now button (Gutenberg block and Elementor widget) Customer invoices (View & Generate, cached and auto-regenerated) See the full Pro documentation or get Pro. Requirements PHP 8.1 or higher WordPress 6.0 or higher WooCommerce (latest recommended) A Paddle account with an API key and client-side token External Services This plugin connects to Paddle’s servers to process payments and load the Paddle JavaScript SDK. By using this plugin you agree to Paddle’s terms and privacy policy. Paddle JavaScript SDK The Paddle checkout SDK is loaded from Paddle’s CDN on any page where the payment gateway is active: Production: https://cdn.paddle.com/paddle/v2/paddle.js Sandbox: same URL (environment is set via the client-side token) This script is provided by Paddle.com Inc. and is required to open the hosted checkout modal. Paddle website Paddle Terms of Service Paddle Privacy Policy Paddle REST API The plugin communicates with the Paddle REST API from your server to create transactions and retrieve order details: Production: https://api.paddle.com Sandbox: https://sandbox-api.paddle.com Data sent includes order line items, customer billing information (email, country, postcode), and currency. No data is sent unless a customer initiates checkout.