PayPal Shopping Cart, commonly known as PPCal Shopping Cart is the open source software to integrate and manage the PayPal payments on the website. PPCal software supports multiple HTML templates and thus it is recognized as user friendly. The templates give customize look of the web catalog to match the look of the rest of the site.

PPCal is a PERL application and simple CGI option is required to run PPCal. Linux and Unix are the operating systems that support PPCal software. The basic feature of PPCal is a number of top-level categories along with 5 levels of subcategories. The software also features a number of products in the database, different images for each item in the database and a large range of digital goods of any file extension per item in the database.

In the PPCal software, ‘Price’, ‘Discount Pricing’ ‘Quantity’ and ‘Weight’ are kept as variable fields in the database. The total cost of the items in the cart is calculated as the sum of subtotal costs. PPCal also allows custom total price calculation, which is the advanced feature of the software.

In the PPCal software, the objectives of the ‘Order Forms’ and ‘Order HTML Pages Generator’ are to generate custom order pages, to create easy order pages automatically from a complicated order pages.

The latest version of the PPCal software contains UPS shipping rates calculator. With the PPCal version 2.9.8, the accurate shipping cost can now be calculated for the UPS shipping based on the originating and destination ZIP codes and the weight of the items in the shopping cart. Shipping cost value is automatically inserted into the PPCal Shopping Cart.