Best WooCommerce Buy Now Button Plugins: 4 Real Options Compared

Compare 4 real WooCommerce buy now button plugins that skip the cart page, with real prices, requirements, and setup steps for each.

Sajil Memon

September 22, 2026

WooCommerce’s default path from product to payment is three page loads: Add to Cart, the cart page, then checkout. A buy now button collapses that into one click, either by skipping straight to checkout or by redirecting the shopper the moment the existing Add to Cart button fires. This post compares four real plugins that do it: WPC Buy Now Button, Quick Buy Now Button for WooCommerce, Buy Now Button for WooCommerce, and Add to Cart Redirect for WooCommerce. The short version: Quick Buy Now Button for WooCommerce ships the most configurable free tier for a dedicated second button, and Add to Cart Redirect for WooCommerce is the one to reach for if the redirect should trigger off the button that’s already on the page instead of adding a new one.

Three of these four add a second button next to Add to Cart. The fourth changes what the existing Add to Cart button does. That distinction matters more than it sounds, especially for any store already tracking Add to Cart clicks in analytics, and it’s the main thing that separates the options below beyond price. For a store selling online, the fewer clicks between “I want this” and “I paid for this,” the fewer chances a customer has to reconsider.

Plugin	Best for	Price	Last updated
WPC Buy Now Button for WooCommerce	Free per-category targeting	Free, Premium $29 one-time (1 site)	September 11, 2026
Quick Buy Now Button for WooCommerce	Most configurable free version	Free, Pro $39/year	September 6, 2026
Buy Now Button for WooCommerce	A single button with no upsell	Free, no premium tier	September 16, 2026
Add to Cart Redirect for WooCommerce	Redirecting the existing Add to Cart button	Free, Pro from $16/year (1 site)	September 18, 2026

WPC Buy Now Button for WooCommerce

Price: Free, Premium $29 one-time (single site)
Requires: WordPress 5.9+, PHP not specified
Last updated: September 11, 2026

WPC Buy Now Button for WooCommerce comes from WPClever, which sells a whole family of WPC-branded WooCommerce plugins (bundles, composite products, frequently bought together, force sells), and this one is built to sit alongside those rather than compete with them. The free version lets a store choose where the button shows (single product page, shop and archive pages, or both), what happens on click (reset the cart, then land on the cart page, checkout, or a custom URL), and which product categories get the button at all. That last part is the real differentiator here: a store can turn Buy Now on for a flash-sale category and leave the rest of the catalog on the normal Add to Cart path, something none of the other three plugins in this list do for free.

Install and activate it the normal way through Plugins > Add New, then configure it from WP-admin > WPClever > Buy Now Button, a separate top-level menu rather than a tab under WooCommerce > Settings. The redirect target and cart-reset toggle live on that settings screen alongside a localization tab and the category-restriction list, and the button can also be dropped anywhere with a shortcode if the theme’s page builder doesn’t cooperate with the automatic placement.

The catch is entirely in what the free version doesn’t do. It only ever redirects to a page; the Instant Checkout popup that lets a buyer enter address and payment details without leaving the product page (positioned left, right, top, bottom, or center) is locked behind the $29 one-time Premium upgrade. If the goal is a faster redirect, free covers everything. If the goal is a true popup checkout, the $29 is what unlocks it. Something similar came up in a custom bundles plugin ConicPlex built for a client: what looks like one feature request (bundle products, or in this case buy now) usually splits into a free redirect layer and a paid interaction layer once a client actually specifies what they want the button to do.

Quick Buy Now Button for WooCommerce

Price: Free, Pro $39/year
Requires: WordPress 4.8+, PHP 7.4+
Last updated: September 6, 2026

Quick Buy Now Button for WooCommerce puts more into its free tier than any of the other three: redirect target (checkout, cart, or an external link), button visibility separately for shop and single product pages, button position, a default quantity for the shop-page button, automatic cart reset, and even a beta Ajax add-to-cart mode and a beta popup checkout, all without paying anything. It also claims full support for variable products in the free version, which is worth calling out because a couple of competitors in this niche gate variable-product support behind a paid tier.

Installation follows the usual path (Plugins > Add New, search, install, activate), with the plugin’s own documentation also covering a manual upload and FTP route for servers without outbound internet access. Neither the beta Ajax add-to-cart mode nor the beta checkout popup is flagged with any more detail than “beta” in the plugin’s own description, so testing both on a staging copy of checkout before switching them on for a live store is the safer order of operations.

The free-to-pro line is narrower than the long free feature list suggests. Replacing the default Add to Cart button entirely, enabling Buy Now on grouped and external products, and any per-product or per-category targeting are all Pro-only, sold through the WooCommerce Marketplace at $39 a year, even though WPC Buy Now Button gives away category-level targeting for free. For a store that only needs a configurable redirect button on simple and variable products, the free version is genuinely enough; category targeting is the feature most likely to push a store toward WPC instead.

Buy Now Button for WooCommerce

Price: Free, no premium tier
Requires: WordPress 5.9+, PHP not specified
Last updated: September 16, 2026

Buy Now Button for WooCommerce is the plainest option here: one button, positioned before, after, or in place of Add to Cart, that either redirects straight to checkout or opens checkout in a popup. There’s no premium upsell anywhere in its listing, no locked category targeting, no gated product types; what’s in the free version is the entire plugin. It also ships a developer-facing shortcode, [buy_now_woo_button], with title and class parameters, for dropping the button somewhere the settings screen can’t reach, like inside a theme template file or a page builder’s raw HTML block.

Upload and activate it normally, then configure it from WooCommerce > Settings > Buy Now, the location most WooCommerce developers would expect rather than a separate menu. Options there cover button position, popup versus redirect behavior, whether the cart resets first, and whether the quantity input next to the button is hidden.

Worth knowing before relying on this one long-term: ownership changed hands in July 2025, per the plugin’s own changelog note (“as of July 5, 2025, this project is maintained by Codeixer”). A maintainer handoff isn’t automatically a red flag, but it’s a different track record than WPClever, which has run WPC Buy Now Button since 2021. There’s also no per-category or per-product targeting here and no popup-checkout beta to test; it does one job, a button that redirects or pops open checkout, and stops there.

Add to Cart Redirect for WooCommerce

Price: Free, Pro from $16/year (single site)
Requires: WordPress 3.0.1+, PHP not specified
Last updated: September 18, 2026

Add to Cart Redirect for WooCommerce takes a different mechanism from the other three. Instead of adding a second Buy Now button, it redirects the shopper straight to checkout the moment they click the Add to Cart button that’s already there, on both Ajax-based add-to-cart (shop and category pages) and the standard single-product form. That’s a real difference for any store tracking Add to Cart clicks in analytics: there’s no new button to instrument, because the redirect fires on the button already being measured. The free version also includes a One Page Checkout mode that puts product selection and the checkout form on one page, and a built-in CAPTCHA for the checkout form that doesn’t need a third-party API key.

Its own installation section on WordPress.org doesn’t spell out a menu path beyond install and activate. Based on its settings and documentation link, the redirect target (checkout, category, product, or custom URL), the option to disable the cart page entirely, and the CAPTCHA toggle are all configured from the plugin’s own settings screen once it’s active alongside WooCommerce.

The free version redirects the same way storewide, for every product. Per-product overrides, custom redirect URLs set per product, and an Amazon-style buy now that pulls just the clicked product into checkout without touching whatever else is already in the cart are all Pro-only, starting at $16 a year for one site. Because this plugin changes what the existing Add to Cart button does rather than adding a new one, it’s also the option most likely to need a compatibility check against variation swatch plugins, mini-cart widgets, or theme JavaScript listening for the standard “added to cart” event, since the customer now leaves the page immediately instead of seeing the usual confirmation.

How to Pick

If Buy Now only needs to run on specific product categories and the budget is zero, use WPC Buy Now Button for WooCommerce.
If variable products need full Buy Now support and $39 a year is acceptable for per-category targeting later, start with Quick Buy Now Button for WooCommerce; its free tier is still the most configurable single-button option here.
If the store just needs one button and no premium tier to think about, use Buy Now Button for WooCommerce.
If the goal is to skip the cart page without adding a second button, redirecting straight off the existing Add to Cart click instead, use Add to Cart Redirect for WooCommerce.
If Buy Now needs to plug into a custom subscription, bundling, or checkout flow none of these four cover out of the box, our Plugin Development team builds that directly, the same way we’ve built custom WooCommerce logic for clients before.

One more thing worth pairing a buy now button with: a sticky add to cart bar keeps the purchase action visible while a shopper scrolls a long product page, and a quick view plugin lets them reach that button from a shop or category page without a full page load first. Buy now removes steps after the decision is made; those two remove steps before it.

FAQ

Does a WooCommerce buy now button work with variable products?

It depends on the plugin. Quick Buy Now Button for WooCommerce and WPC Buy Now Button both support variable products in their free tiers. Add to Cart Redirect for WooCommerce adds a variable-product buy now button on category and shop pages by adding the product’s first variation to the cart, not by prompting the shopper to pick a variation first, which is worth testing against a store’s actual variation setup before relying on it.

Will a buy now button break existing Add to Cart tracking in Google Analytics?

For the three plugins that add a second button (WPC, Quick Buy Now Button, and Buy Now Button for WooCommerce), the original Add to Cart button and its tracking are untouched; Buy Now is a separate click event that needs its own tracking if that data matters. Add to Cart Redirect for WooCommerce is the exception, since it changes what the existing Add to Cart button does, so any analytics event tied to that click still fires, but the page the customer lands on next changes.

Can a customer still apply a coupon after clicking buy now?

Yes, in all four. Buy now shortens the path to checkout, it doesn’t remove the checkout page itself (unless a plugin’s popup or one-page mode is enabled), and WooCommerce’s coupon field still appears there normally.

Does adding a buy now button require editing the theme?

No, for the default placement in any of the four. All four inject the button through WooCommerce’s own product-page and shop-page hooks, which is what lets them offer position settings (before, after, or in place of Add to Cart) without a child theme. A shortcode is only needed if the button has to go somewhere those hooks don’t reach, like a custom page builder section.

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Sajil Memon

Sajil Memon is a co-founder of ConicPlex and a Senior Full Stack Developer focused on backend work: Node.js, PHP, APIs, and the infrastructure decisions that determine whether a system holds up under real traffic. He’s spent years on the side of a project that doesn’t get demoed, the part that has to keep working after launch. He writes here about the technical tradeoffs in backend architecture, deployment, and data handling that only become obvious once something breaks in production.