The Ultimate WordPress Shopping/Ecommerce Toolbox (Plugins and Themes)

June 16, 2010 - 77 CommentsWritten by Paul Andrew

There is not much left that you can not do with WordPress. With every new update it becomes ever more powerful and there are a multitude of plugins and themes that can unleash its full potential that leaves its rival CMSes in its wake. And nothing more epitomizes its power, versatility and ease of use than the ecommerce solutions it offers.

Almost two years ago we published a popular article called 10 Powerful Shopping/Ecommerce Plugin Solutions For WordPress, and upon review we realized how much out-of-date it is. This fresh article brings all of the WP ecommerce solutions up to date with some new and powerful plugins (some older as well) and a collection of fully ecommerce ready themes (which were not even thought of when our original post was published).

Please Note: All of the prices for the premium plugins and themes were correct as of this posts publishing date.

WordPress Ecommerce Plugins

Shopp Plugin

Shopp Plugin is a premium shopping solution plugin for WordPress with a rich and polished feature list. It is easy to install and manage, and is compatibile with almost all WP themes. Some of its important features are drag & drop for multiple product images, support for physical & digital products, order history, email notifications, fast product search, shipping rate calculations, discounts and promo codes.

Plugin Payment Options: 2Checkout.com, PayPal and Google Checkout. Available as an optional add-on: Authorize.net, PayJunction, FirstData/LinkPoint, HSBC ePayments and eWay Payments.

Price: For a single site licence it costs $55, and for a full developer licence it costs $299.

Shopp Plugin Essential Resources:
• Shopp Plugin Homepage »
• Shopp Plugin Downloads and Purchase » (It requires WP 2.6 or higher to work)
• Shopp Plugin Full Feature List »
• Shopp Official Documentation »
• Shopp Community Forums »
• Shopp Tour & Demo »
• Shopp Plugin Showcase » (A selection of Shopp powered ecommerce sites)

WP e-Commerce Plugin

There are mixed feelings about the WP e-Commerce plugin, some love it and some not so much. But the fact remains, with over 500,000 downloads (by far and away the most popular ecommerce plugin for WordPress), umpteen free and premium themes built using its code, and its seemingly infinite list of features, it really is an essential powerhouse of a plugin. And the best thing of all? It is completely FREE.

WP e-Commerce Essential Resources:
• WP e-Commerce Plugin Homepage »
• WP e-Commerce Plugin Downloads » (It requires WP 2.7 or higher and is compatible up to WP 2.9.2)
• WP e-Commerce Support Forums »
• WP e-Commerce Official Documentation and Installation Guide »
• Wp-e-Commerce Module Framework » (This is a framework for building WP e-Commerce modules)
• Video Tutorial – Getting set up with the WP e-Commerce Plugin »
• WP e-Commerce Showcase » (A selection of WP e-Commerce powered sites)

WordPress eStore Plugin

This premium WordPress shopping cart plugin allows you to sell any form of digital products and services from your wordpress blog securely and with complete automation.

Price: This premium plugin costs a flat rate of $39, plus there are additional costs for any extra modules that you add.

Plugin Payment Options: PayPal, 2Checkout or manual transcations (customers can pay using a bank cheque or bank transfer).

WP eStore Plugin Resources:
• WordPress eStore Plugin Homepage »
• WP eStore Plugin »
• WP eStore Plugin Download and Purchase »
• WP eStore Plugin Full Feature List »
• WP eStore Documentation and Installation Guides »
• WP eStore Startup Guide for Dummies »
• WP eStore Quick Setup and Usage Video Tutorials » (5 in-depth video tutorials)
• WP eStore Live Demonstration »
• WP eStore Support Forum »

PHPurchase Plugin

PHPurchase is a premium plugin that makes it simple to create an entire catalogue of products with custom variables (size, color, etc.), it has a a powerful dashboard-based order management system, simple system to track your orders, you have the option to offer discounts and provide shipping options.

Price: Prices for PHPurchase range from as low as $49 for a single licence, up to $499 for an unlimited developer licence.

Plugin Payment Options: PayPal, Authorise.net, eProcessing Network and Quantum Gateway.

PHPurchase Plugin Essential Resources:
• PHPurchase Plugin Homepage »
• PHPurchase Downloads »
• PHPurchase Full Feature List »
• PHPurchase Video Tutorials »
• PHPurchase Support Forums »
• PHPurchase Documentation and Installation Guide (PDF) »
• PHPurchase Showcase » (A selection pf PHPurchase powered sites)

ShopperPress Plugin

ShopperPress is an open source fully featured shopping cart theme for WordPress, that is perfectly suited for selling all types of merchandise, services, and digital downloads.
It is packed with all of the features you would expect from an ecommerce, with a few extras added in. It allows for Adsense integration with dedicated advertising slots and you also have the option to import from Amazon, Ebay, CSV and Datafeedr.
A ShopperPress plugin purchase includes free access to over 20+ store front designs including PSD graphic files allowing you to edit the images, colors etc. All of these designs are fully customizable CSS-based designs editable via the WordPress admin area.

Price: ShopperPress has a flat price of $79, which has been recently reduced from $200.

Plugin Payment Options: ShopperPress has integration with an awesome 20 payment gateways all of which are easily activated via the admin area, they include: PayPal, PayWeb.ca, PayFast, 2C0, Google Checkout, Sage Pay… and many more.

ShopperPress Plugin Essential Resources:
• ShopperPress Plugin Homepage »
• ShopperPress Full Feature List »
• ShopperPress Download and Purchase »
• ShopperPress Quick Setup Manual »
• ShopperPress Video Tutorials » (ShopperPress offers a huge selection of video tutorials, 19 in total)
• ShopperPress Showcase » (A selection of ShopperPress powered ecommerce sites)

eShop Plugin

eShop is a completely free, very easy to setup and accessible shopping cart plugin for WordPress, packed with all of the required features for setting up a small personalised online shop. Upon installation, the plugin automatically creates 6 pages for you (Shopping Cart, Checkout, Thank you for your order, Cancelled Order, Downloads and Shipping Rates), all of which are editable. You then need to create a top level shop page, and start creating departments and entering products, and your shop is now ready to use.

Plugin Payment Options: Authorize.net, Paypal, Payson, eProcessingNetwork, Webtopay, iDEAL and Cash/Cheque.

eShop Plugin Essential Resources:
• eShop Plugin Homepage »
• eShop Plugin Download » (Requires WP 2.9 or higher)
• eShop Installation Guide »
• eShop Support Forums »
• eShop Plugin Showcase » (A selection of ShopperPress powered ecommerce sites)

QuickShop

Quick Shop is a basic ecommerce plugin that supports any WordPress theme that has Sidebar Widgets installed. It adds a SideBar widget that shows the user what they currently have in the cart and allows them to remove the items, not to mention a TinyMCE button to easily allow you to add products to your posts/pages.

QuickShop Plugin Essential Resources:
• QuickShop »
• QuickShop Plugin Downloads » (Requires WP 2.3 or higher and is compatible up to WP 2.9.2)
• Quick Shop Online Demo »
• QuickShop Installation Guide »
• QuickShop Support Forums »

WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin

The WordPress Shopping Cart plugin gives you the ability to quickly and seamlessly integrate an online shop with a fully functional shopping cart interface into any WordPress installation.
With its fairly easy to use interface, you can set up your multiple products and categorize/organize them into multiple product categories. Add additional images to showcase your products so that users know what they are buying and add digital downloads to products if needed so that users can securely download paid files from your website.

Price: It costs $49 for a single installation licence of the WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin, and $249 for an unlimited licence.

Plugin Payment Options: PayPal (Standard), 2CheckOut, MoneyBookers, First Data (Linkpoint & YourPay), Realex Payments (redirect), eMatters (HTTPS), Ogone PSP (Basic), Authorize.net (AIM), eWay (Shared), credit card (POS) and wire transfer.

WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin Essential Resources:
• WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin Homepage »
• WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin Download and Purchase »
• WordPress Shopping Cart Full Feature List »
• WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin Documentation and Installation Guide »
• WordPress Shopping Cart Showcase » (A selection of WordPress Shopping Cart powered ecommerce sites)

YAK for WordPress

YAK is a free plugin that associates products with weblog entries, so the post ID also becomes the product code. It supports both pages and posts as products, handles different types of product through categories, and provides customisable purchase options. It requires WP 2.5 or higher and is compatible up to WP 2.9.2.

Plugin Payment Options: Cheque, credit card, Google Checkout, PayPal, and Authorize.net.

YAK for WordPress Resources:
• YAK for WordPress Homepage & Downloads »
• YAK Installation Guide »
• YAK Installation Handbook ($20) »
This is a PDF guide for setting up YAK on your WordPress site. Covering everything from the basic installation to advanced configuration with PayPal, Authorize.net and Google Checkout, multiple option types, downloadable products, and other topics. (Its cost is $20).

DPD-Cart Plugin

DPD is an all in one digital download shopping cart, affiliate manager, and automatic download delivery system.
The DPD-Cart plugin connects via an API to the DPD system to automatically pull your available storefronts and storefront products in to your WordPress blog. From there, you can specify which storefront to associate with your WordPress blog, add a view cart / checkout button to the WordPress sidebar using a provided widget, and insert DPD add-to-cart buttons to any WordPress post or page by simply selecting the product you want from your list of configured and available products.
This plugin has only been tested up to WP 2.8.

DPD-Cart Plugin Resources:
• DPD-Cart Plugin Homepage »
• DPD-Cart Plugin Downloads and Installation Guide »
• Start Selling Downloads from your WordPress Blog in 5 Minutes (DPD Plugin Tutorial) »
This tutorial will show you how to add a shopping cart that gives the ability to sell and automatically deliver download products from your WordPress blog in just a few minutes, using the DPD plugin.

MiniCart Plugin

MiniCart is a very basic commerce solution. It will implement a mini-shopping-cart within your WP theme and the users will only be able to buy one item at a time. This plugin simple could be useful as a donation plugin.
MiniCart requires WP 2.5 or higher and is only compatible up to WP 2.8!!!

MiniCart Plugin Resources:
• MiniCart Plugin Homepage & Download »
• MiniCart Plugin Installation Instructions »
• MiniCart Plugin Demonstration »

Premium Ecommerce Themes

AppCloud (WP eCommerce Plugin Theme)

AppCloud requires the WP e-Commerce plugin, and costs only $35 for a single license.
View the Demo »

Ecommerce Web Template

The Ecommerce Theme is currently available for purchase for $79.95 for multiple-use.
View the Demo »

Kelontong (WP eCommerce Plugin Theme)

Kelontong requires the WP e-Commerce plugin, and costs only $35 for a single license and $75 for a developers license.
View the Demo »

The Furniture Store

The Furniture Store costs $47 and is completely ecommerce plugin free.
View the Demo »

folioBlog/folioShop

folioBlog/folioShop is a flexible, plugin free and localized (Translation-Ready) eCommerce theme that costs $47.
View the Demo »

wpShop Reloaded

wpShop Reloaded is a plugin free and localized (Translation-Ready) eCommerce theme that costs $37.
View the Demo »

ArtShop

ArtShop is a plugin free eCommerce theme that costs $32.
View the Demo »

WPA Storefront

WPA Storefront is a plugin free (although it uses WP the e-Commerce plugins source code) eCommerce theme that costs $32.
View the Demo »

The Clothes Shop

The Clothes Shop is a plugin free eCommerce theme that costs $42.
View the Demo »

eShop

This theme is plugin free and costs $65 for a single license and $99 for a multiple licence.
View the Demo »

Kidz Store

This theme is plugin free and costs $65 for a single license and $99 for a multiple licence.
View the Demo »

Store Templatic

This theme is plugin free and costs $65 for a single license and $99 for a multiple licence.
View the Demo »

Market Theme

This theme is plugin free and costs $55 for a standard license and $99 for a developer licence.
View the Demo »

enVirashop

This theme is plugin free and costs $32.
View the Demo »

e-Commerce

This theme is plugin free and costs $55 for a standard license and $99 for a developer licence.
View the Demo »

WP Store

This theme is plugin free and costs $55 for a standard license and $99 for a developer licence.
View the Demo »

StorePress WordPress Ecommerce 1.2

StorePress costs $49 for a single license, $75 mixed license and $139 for a developers license.
View the Demo »

ShopperPress – WordPress Shopping Cart Theme

ShopperPress is a fully featured shopping cart theme for WordPress, suitable for selling all types of products, services, and digital downloads online. It comes with more than 20 extra store designs which are all free with every purchase. The developer package costs $299 and$79 for a single license.
View the Demo »

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http://blog.joelgaujard.info Joel Gaujard
Hello,
And what about PrestaShop with the plugin wp-prestashop ?
(it’s not advertising just to talk about this plugin)
Regards,
Joel

http://garmin-nuvi-allmodels.org Road Flower
Which one of the above mentioned themes are more secured? I just want to be sure that I dont fall prey to hackers online

http://www.chrismorata.com Chris Morata
I may have missed this, but do any of the e-commerce plugins out there for WordPress allow you to have customers save their information for future checkout use when they are logged in?

http://www.sonyalynndesigns.com Sonya Lynn
the wp e-commerce plugin from instinct does that, but it can be a bit tricky setting it up…

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NRLX6THPAFSUZVDULBF7AWEWEE Augusta Tina
yes I am agree with you…..:)

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http://www.kgaspeedmedia.com Kevin Gorzny
Instinct’s WP e-Commerce has horrible support. They don’t even monitor the support forums on their own website.
Versions get released too early creating even more bugs as well.
Myself and a few others I know have all had negative issues (and we are paying customers of theirs).
Multiple emails sent to their “support team” (of one person) – I only received one response of which was simply asking me a question, with on response beyond that.
Look elsewhere.

http://www.visser.com.au Visser Labs
Hi Kevin, I was referred to your post, I’m sympathetic as a fellow store owner that you’ve experienced issue/s with WP e-Commerce but as someone who runs his own e-commerce stores as well as uses this Plugin as my preferred e-commerce solution for clients – without pulling my hair out – I would like to elaborate on a few assumptions.
- the community Support Forum is for WP e-Commerce users to contribute with each other, when a support issue is raised it’s commonplace for a patch to be released and marked for inclusion in future releases
- the Premium Support forum, like other Plugin support services provides timely and dedicated support to GetShopped.org customers
- ‘the Support team of one’ from the priority team alone includes enough members for each finger, complimenting this Trusted members regularly contribute patches and assist in resolving issues
- the e-mail support system was recently overhauled to ensure tickets are better organised to enable prompt resolution of enquiries, I recommend creating a new Premium Support topic or bumping your existing topic to address your issue/s.
I’d love to see a review of each Plugin to see which stands out!
Disclaimer: In the past 3 weeks I’ve crossed the Tasman and joined the Instinct team – the core company that maintains WP e-Commerce – I’ve been an active GetShopped.org community forum/blog/moderator since Aug. 2009, I am a part-time Happiness Engineer and owner of Visser Labs.

http://www.ilovenewwork.it Leandro Puca
Amazing collection, love it! Thanks a lot!
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All these plugins around wp are just so awesome!
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There’s nothing wordpress can’t do.Nice post.
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http://tookangweb.com Tookangweb
thanks, i am proud being member tokokoo (Appcloud / Dangdoot / kelontong) free premium wordpress e-commerce themes
http://gopalbonline.com gopalb
Nice post, Amazing collection….thanks for the post
Jedw
WP e-Commerce is a horrible product. I recently used in one of my projects, but I ended up rewriting all the code. They even sell a couple of “premium” extensions. I purchased one hoping to save me some time, but it turned out to be completely useless as well. My advice; stay from it.

http://www.visser.com.au Visser Labs
‘all of it’… I seriously doubt that, maybe a shipping module or payment gateway. ;)
To help other readers what Premium Plugin did you purchase, what were you expecting it to do; be interested in your thoughts.

http://magplazza.com Mike
Thanks for the post! Although there are massive WordPresss plug-ins and themes for e-commerce, I don’t think it quite surpass Magento and other e-commerce platforms yet. We’ll see :)

http://internetmarketingsmallbusiness.net/ John
We’ve actually gotten a few clients who previously were with Magento in complex stores but the technical hurdles and constant breakage / outage of their sites caused them to look elsewhere. Magento is like the Jaguar of shopping carts — when it works it’s fantastic. The rest of the time you’re in with the mechanic (coder). Lol

http://www.eclipsedesign.eu/ Kartlos Tchavelachvili
very useful! If I ever will need WP e-comerce plugin, I’ll come here to see overview! :)
Rex
Agree – WP E-Commerce is a horrendous product. You know what’s worse than free? Something that’s free and doesn’t work. You’ll spend hours, days, and even weeks getting this thing to work. You might as well write your own plugin instead of using WP E-commerce.
http://knowledgecity.com Jae Xavier
Generally Speaking…
WP for eCommmerce is ok for small business or selling of about 5 products max. Anything over 5 however, there are much better options.
Informative post btw.

http://www.visser.com.au Visser Labs
Hi Jae, curious as to why WP e-Commerce isn’t suited for larger inventories; how can bulk product management be done better?
If you haven’t already, check out 3.8, I suspect it will blow your mind away with the new products view for easy large-volume product management.
http://www.benhuson.co.uk Ben
I have developed a few stores running on WP e-Commerce. One of them has a catalogue of nearly 1000 products which it seems to handle fine.

http://internetmarketingsmallbusiness.net/ John
I agree, I’ve developed WP e-commerce sites with 1,000+ sites in WP-ecommerce, but what a giant hassle… I have also developed e-commerce stores up to 26,000 items in Shopp, but our preferred ecommerce plugin for WordPress is estore. It’s rock solid and VERY flexible for physical products, downloadable, etc. Contrary to what others have said, you can also do grid layouts with eStore.
IMHO stay away from WP-ecommerce. Horrible, horrible customer service and a VERY buggy product.

Ig
If you don’t want to spend your time fixing code, stay away from WP E-commerce. The code quality is absolutely terrible. It looks like it never was tested. Even CSS and JS have tons of errors and unused code. I’ve had to use it and spent days fixing PHP code. Unfortunately the code is such a bad shape that I think it would be easier to rewrite it from a scratch.
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http://goodwebsits.co.nz Erwin
Okay.. have read the feelings for WP E-commerce in the comments.. anybody has tried Shopp or PhPurchase and like to share their experience…??

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Shopp is great, documentation is pretty good, overall tight package. Ability to mix normal sales and download sales is great.

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Maybe U will find interesting this http://www.muncom.com

Mike
Thanks for the spam

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Wow ! Nice information about ecommerce. Every Things is at right position. My friend inspired from such nice information.
http://www.approachnet.com approachnet
This may come in handy. I’m seeing more and more WordPress sites, so Ecommerce capabilities is something I may need for a client someday.
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http://maxim650.com Todd
This is timely information. I’m setting up my first e-commerce site for a client now.
Does anyone know how these shopping cart solutions fare with the new PCI Compliance standards starting on July 1? (see http://sinard.com/blog/articles/have-an-online-store-what-you-need-to-do-by-july-1/ )

http://www.webdesignpeople.net Anthony Blears
It’s more about your hosting environment and your payment gateway than the carts themselves.
Stick with PayPal Standard if you want to avoid the hassle. As no sensitive financial information is stored/transmitted on your site using Standard the onus is on PayPal to provide the compliance.
There’s a good thread about this here:
http://getshopped.org/forums/topic.php?id=11804

http://www.drmyattswellnessclub.com Mark
This is good information – though I’ve looked at most of these solutions and found them to have a fatal flaw…
For someone doing physical product, tax collection and reporting becomes a big issue – and none of the cart solutions I’ve looked at yet have had the ability to provide proper reports for gross sales, net sales (ie:less shipping), taxable sales, and tax collected. Without reporting like this, tax calculation becomes a nightmare of manual bookkeeping and a dangerous dance with the tax collector.
Surely others besides us have these same needs… am I missing something? Maybe I’m just not looking hard enough at the documentation? Surely some one of these cards offers this…
We also need a solution that allows us to use authorize.net – paypal and google checkout are NOT options for our business!
If there is a solution out there that addresses these needs I would be grateful to hear about it – I am building a small WP e-com site right now and am stalled out at this problem.
Please – if anyone has a suggestion or lead to a good solution, let me know! mziemann@yahoo.com
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The Greatest Collection. thanks!
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Adam Purcell
Been using WP Ecommerce from GetShopped (Instinct) for over 18 months now… I love it, client’s love it… happy all around.
I love the constant development, it is always improving. Plenty of plugins being developed that add in, and a growing community. Definitely my recommendation.
http://www.benhuson.co.uk Ben
I have used WP e-Commerce for quite a few web sites and not experienced all the problems that other users seem to have experienced. I’ve occasionally had to tweak it to get it to work exactly how I want but it always seems to work fine out-of-the-box for me.
As the post above mentions, it is by far the most downloaded ecommerce plugin for WordPress (and the main plugin is free) so keeping on top of support requests must be a mammoth task – hence why I think some people may have have not received the level of support they would like.
I’ve been using the plugin for a quite a while now and over the last 6 months I’ve noticed they have made strides forwards in developing a more supportive community around the plugin. There now seems to be quite a few developers looking through and helping out in the forums and there is a premium support forum for users who have purchase the paid upgrade – just to clarify, the main download of WP e-Commerce is free!
I’ve had a look around the current beta version which is looking great. It is much more closely aligned with the WordPress API so future versions should be much easier to support and customise.
…and the main benefit about moving to the WordPress API is that it will be super-easy to create plugins to add extra functionality to WP e-Commerce so if it doesn’t work quite how you want, you should be able to build a plugin to do it.
Looking foreword to that! :)
http://hotchkissconsulting.net/ Sam Hotchkiss
Sure, WP E-Ccommerce has it’s flaws, but the great part about it is that it just keeps getting better– every release is more solid than the last, faster, smoother. I’ve installed it for dozens of clients, and they couldn’t be happier. I’ve been testing the 3.8 beta, as well, and it just slams on the gas and leaves the other carts out there in the dust.
If its been a while since you’ve tried it, come on back, the water’s fine :)
http://www.dnawebagency.com jeremysawesome
I’ve found WP-E-Commerce to be the most powerful WordPress shopping cart plugin out there.
I wouldn’t hesitate to use it on any of my sites. And the fact is – that it just keeps on getting better. The developers really listen to the community, it shows when each release is better and has more features then the last.
http://www.zaowebdesign.com Justin Sainton
Having been on both sides of the argument re: WP-E-Commerce, I can tell you from experience that roughly 90% of the issues on the forums are either feature requests disguised as bugs, or misconfiguration.
If it is properly configured, it works well out of the box. I’ve used it for quite a few projects Like some others have said, you may need to tweak it a bit to get it to work a way that it doesn’t out of the box, but that is true of any application out there.
Full disclosure, I’m one of the lead developers for the 3.8 release. Funny story for detractors, you know why I’m leading development on this? Because when I saw a flaw in the shop, rather than complain about how awful the shop was, I recognized it’s strengths, appreciated that hundreds of thousands of people are making great money off of a free product, and decided to give back instead of complain. Food for thought.
http://www.webdesignpeople.net Anthony Blears
Unlike the above posters enthusing about WP e-Commerce, I’m not part of their core development community, so hopefully I can present a balanced view.
I’ve been doing WordPress development for many years now. Whenever I’ve needed an ecommerce solution for clients I’ve used WP e-Commerce. I’m sure some of the competitor plugins are great, but I just had to sink so much time into finessing WP e-Commerce for my needs that it’d be a shame to not use what I learnt. So it’s become my default ecommerce solution.
I’ve managed to get a couple of really solid sites running on it:
http://www.evokenz.com
http://www.internationalfleeces.com
Certainly, there have been real issues with their approach to support and (particularly) core testing before release (the recent 3.7.6.x branch seems to be continual patching of bugs introduced by the previous patch), and there’s a lot of grumbling on the forums about real core functionality – how taxes, shipping and the payment gateways work, for instance.
And yet, behind the growing pains I can see the potential in it, it has a lot of momentum and the upcoming 3.8 release using WordPress 3 looks pretty special – essentially it’s a LOT leaner and smarter now that it uses custom post types and hooks into more native WordPress functionality.
The dev team are also getting more people involved in community support and testing which is also great to see.
If you haven’t tried it yet, grab the 3.8 beta and have a play.
cheers
Anthony
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Great collection here. We’ve been looking into the possibilities of using WordPress for an upcoming ecommerce project. I think Shopp might well be worth some further investigations. Thanks for posting.
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Hi, the best solution for eCommerce store is the eShop template.
In terms of UX is the best and comes with a beautiful design.
Now WordPress offers more tools, than a blog CMS.
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Is it just me, or is there a sad lacking of ‘tagging’ for products?
I just can’t seem to get my head around the fact that tagging – for blogs – would be a GREAT way to create categories… without creating categories… for WP ecommerce.
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E-commerce theme, beautiful, but very important subject, as demonstrated at this point, thank you very beautiful documents
fulton
i want to sell a CD with an instant ZIP single file download, does anyone know of any wordpress solutions for this aside from wp-ecommerce?
i would love to use SHOPP but i read you cannot achieve this on their system, you have to sell physical and digital products separate.
does anyone have any suggestions? :)
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Paul Andrew,
Very nice WordPress Shopping/Ecommerce
Plugins.
Thanks for sharing this useful plugins.
Seth
Do any of these eCommerce solutions for wordpress give the ability to create an amazon.com-like marketplace where my website users can create their own user profile and then upload their own products for sale in the marketplace?
If not, does any know of a way to do that with wordpress without having to create my own program?
thanks.

http://www.emenia.es Juan Diaz-Bustamante
Hi Seth, I’m looking also for that. Have you found any solution please? Thank you in advance

http://www.nomad-one.com nomadone
I’ve been hunting for a plugin which allows ordering but does not include any payment aspects.
eg. place orders for a list of products then submit those orders via email

http://www.visser.com.au Michael Visser
Hi nomadone, check out Manual Ordering for WP e-Commerce.

http://www.pitch.tv/ Owen pole
that is really a good work. like it very much. simply thanks for you.
http://www.ehrlive.com/ openemr
I love to shop online and to purchase using my paypal account. This online shop really inspire me to look into the different style of product and its quality. I’ve been hunting for a plugin which allows ordering which includes payment and bookkeeping.
http://twitter.com/steviewhitehead Stephen Whitehead
really useful list of wordpress ecommerce plugins @speckyboy:disqus
http://twitter.com/Jigoshop Jigoshop
Checkout http://jigoshop.com a brand new, up-to-date eCommerce plugin for WordPress coming soon.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ENFRCQQONCGHHHJSACEBD44LFY Todd Riehle
which one is best for amazon products or personal products selling website, wordpress or zencart?
Anonymous
WordPress has many features to get an ecommerce website.
http://www.101bestwordpressthemes.com Alex
Great list. I’ve used wordpress for ecommerce a few times and it’s worked really well. I’ve put together my own list of ecommerce wordpress themes. Take a look if you get a chance : http://www.101bestwordpressthemes.com/blog/wp-commerce-themes.html
Mike
Can anyone recommend a shopping cart plugin for a WP site (Genesis theme) that also provides automatic recurring billing or “reference” billing? I know that Cart66 allows it, but it requires the use of Spreedly, which I prefer to avoid if possible. I just cannot believe that in this e-commerce world there is not a plugin for this. Many thanks.
Mike
To update my question below, Authorize.Net offers a great CIM tool, but I don’t know what WordPress plug-in supports the Authorize.Net CIM. I do know that Cart66 does not natively support CIM, but if you also use Spreedly for subscription/membership billing, Cart66 will work, but really seems like overkill to me and one more thing to breakdown and pay for monthly. Do you know what WordPress plug-in supports Authorize.Net’s CIM? Many thanks.
http://www.tipsotricks.com ZaiN
This is the all one guide to see and decide wordpress eCommerce plugins. Thanks for sharing this.

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