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  katielashlee · Member · Apr 4, 2017 at 3:40 am

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  I would like to add a feature to have a Paypal Shopping Cart on my word press website. Right now, I have the free plan. Is there an option with the different plans that includes this, or would allow for me to somehow upload this feature? If so, which plan(s) allow this? Please assist as soon as possible. Thank you.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 4, 2017 at 3:42 am

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  There is no secure payments system here at wordpress.COM and you cannot add a shopping cart to sites hosted by wordpress.COM regardless of upgrades. There is no FTP access and no blogger installed plugins are allowed for security reasons here at wordpress.COM.

  Provided you are selling only what you yourself make or a providing service that you personally provide on a wordpress.COM site, or you are asking for donations you have two options.

  (1) PayPal – Know that the only instructions that will work for posting a PayPal donation button on a WordPress.com blog are found here http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/
  Note that the PayPal email link is not supported and PayPal customization options are not supported either https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/paypal-button-41?replies=12#post-2517229 This is not likely to be changed any time soon, if at all.

  Some bloggers create a contact form https://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/ on a page and after the people have made a PayPal donation they provide the link to a private page for downloading files. Maybe that will work for you.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/

  (2) If you set up an eCommerce site somewhere else online you can create a custom menu http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/ and include a custom link to that site in it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-custom-links

  If what I provided above at (1) and (2) do not suit you, then this guide will explain how to move your WordPress.com site to another hosting platform: Moving to Self-Hosted WordPress where you can set up a secure payment system http://move.wordpress.com