10 best WordPress Plugin for ecommerce
By Partho, Gaea News NetworkWednesday, October 14, 2009
What could be the best way to fillip your ecommerce in WordPress? Well, there are some cool Wordpress plugins for ecommerce that can make your online business effortless. Using the plugins you can boost your ecommerce in a jiffy and that even without spending a hill of beans. There are a number of revolutionary plugins that can help you in selling anything from digital products to content to arts. To aid your business efforts we had already provided more than a dozen of ecommerce application. This time we have a well-researched list of 10 best Wordpress plugin for ecommerce.
1. eShop
It is an accessible shopping cart plugin for WordPress packed with sophisticated features. eShop uses WordPress pages, or posts, to create products. There are various methods available for listing the products. Various methods available for listing products. It allows you to download data and upload downloadable products. The basic statics and sales data provided by the plugin is quite handy. The Admin has access to an order handling section. It sends automatic emails on successful purchase. The emails templates are user configurable. Various discounts options are also available.
eShop offers a number of payments options that include- Authorize.net, Paypal, Payson, eProcessingNetwork, Webtopay and Cash/Cheque. What’s more it offers several shipping options.
2. Shopp Requirement Check
This plugin has been designed to ensure that the web hosting environment has the technologies to support Shopp. Shopp was a much needed ecommerce plugin solution for WordPress. It provides an online commerce platform that can easily handle larger online store operations without any complexity. For any small online shop owner it’s a great asset. The plugin is simple to use and focuses on balanced, efficient, and stable feature set to provide best ecommerce experience. Further it also extends the powerful flexibility and adaptability required by developers and designers. It offers advanced Thickbox product image galleries with smooth transition
Some of the key features in Shopp include
- SEO shopping pages with pretty-url permalink support, product and category names in the page title, and more
- Dynamic categories that highlights new product additions, featured products, on-sale products and bestselling products
- Product RSS feeds for every category (including dynamic categories) enhanced for Google Bas
- Run time-limited promotions like price discounts, free shipping or even buy 1 get 1 free support
- Easy to set up multiple shipping methods with an intelligently simplified shipping rate manager
- Options for payment through credit cards easily and securely
- Offsite checkout through PayPal Express and/or Google Checkout
3. WP e-Commerce
This sophisticated plugin for WordPress is a simple and easy to use fully featured shopping cart application that can be used to sell your products, services and fees online. It is a Web 2.0 application designed to offer usability, presentation and aesthetics. WP e-Commerce could be a one stop shop for those dealing with bands & record Labels, clothing companies, crafters & artists, books, DVDs & MP3 files.
4. WP osCommerce
WPosCommerce or the WP.osC plugin for Wordpress is a modified version of the popular ecommerce solution osCommerce. WP.osC allows you to integrate osCommerce with existing WordPress website.
The plugin displays latest products, random products, top 10 best sellers all on your WordPress blog post page. It adds a dynamic widget in your blogs sidebar to display the products.
5. Quick Shop
QuickShop supports any WordPress that has the Sidebar Widgets installed. Quick shop adds the SideBar widget that shows the user what they currently have in the cart and allows them to remove the items. There is a TinyMCE button that allows you to add products to your posts/pages. It offers two widgets - Paypal and other for custom solution. It features both Paypal Subscription and Donation tags. Users can create different product options in a drop-down. It features an inventory listing tied in to TinyMCE and a full range of formating for widget layout in Quickshop. In addition, it provides a checkout page.
6. flshow Manager
This Wordpress plugin for ecommerce could be a handy solution for sites developed with static flash galleries, headers, menus and intros. In such case, it is hard to determine which parts of the site can be changed within WordPress, and which cannot be changed. flshow Manager has been designed to manage the fantabulous flShow Photo Carousel within the comfort of WordPress dashboard. The carousel offers an excellent platform to display the products of eCommerce with attractive header. Else you can simply show off your photography portfolio.
7. WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart
Paypal is one of the most widely used ecommerce applications. This WordPress plugin allows you to add an Add to Cart button on any post or page. The shopping cart is displayed on any post or page or side bar easily. In the shopping cart users can see what they currently have in the cart. It also allows the to remove any item from the cart, if required.
8. Are Paypal
It’s a unique Wordpress plugin that allows monitizing Wordpress blog content using Paypal. That’s a cool way of making money by selling your knowledge. It allows you to set the Post/Page to contain hidden content. To visitor willing to view the content has to perform a given task provided in a message.The content might be set as hidden for unregistered users and visible for registered. In a similar way the content can be set as hidden for unregistered-unpayed users and visible for registered-paid users. The search engines will only see the visible content. The administrator can grant the users access to content for certain payment. These features can be configured using the administrative screens. The plugin uses Paypal IPN - Instant Payment Notification protocol to offer a fully automated payment/content delivery.
9. WP Auctions
It’s one of the most innovative ecommerce plugins for WordPress that allows users to host auctions on their blog or website without any expenditure. It doesn’t require listing fees, seller fees, final value fees, gallery fees or any other type of fee for anything you wanna sell online. Once the auctions is listed, user can register your plugin with the WP Auctions Live page and generate some traffic for your website. Some of its exclusive features include uploading multiple images for each auction; selling items only on Buy It Now basis; RSS feed for your auctions and shows 3rd party ads when there are no auctions. It’s only payment option is PayPal.
10. ArtPal
It’s a free ecommerce WOrdPress plugin for artists who wanna sell their work online. It allows easy PayPal integration with just the address. Artpal offers real time sales updates as soon as the item sells and disables it so that it’s not sold twice. ArtPal gets more powerful with support from businesses mean business. It’s Digital Sublimity offers commercial support ensuring that the critical application will stay up and running when its needed.
Tags: Beans, ecommerce Wordpress plugins, Online Shopping, osCommerce, PayPal
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September 23, 2010: 1:12 pm
Wow, I really need to build one of these for myself. Just one question though: When you said laptop tray for the case, does that come with the case or do you have to order it seperatly? Great Setup Chase. |
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July 17, 2010: 3:00 am
Thank you very much for yet another excellent WordPress tutorial. I am always trying to find super marketing tricks to suggest to my readers. Thanks for posting this post. It’s just what I was searching for. Truly wonderful post. |
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June 29, 2010: 12:48 pm
The smallest things can have the biggest impact. Keep your appointments, promises, and committments. If you do, you will stand out from the crowd. |
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May 22, 2010: 1:48 am
Really excellent collection of WordPress Plugin for ecommerce. Thanks for sharing. |
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May 14, 2010: 6:00 pm
Great article … i’m looking at implementing a cart in my wordpress install however, you’re article didn’t really get me much further that I already was… I had reviewed a number of products from within the WP plugins section with no real satisfaction… Are you able to provide recommendations??? You have listed 10 good products but what have you used? What do you prefer? What would you recommend? Every one of them has it’s good points… but they all “appear” to do what is required but I can’t pick one… I could spend the next 2-3 weeks testing (which I probably will) but recommendations or a summary would finsih this story off… |
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May 9, 2010: 11:13 am
Is it just me, or is it strange the the Shopp Requirements plugin is listed aub the Shopp plugin itself is not. Where does the Shopp plugin fall on the list? |
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April 20, 2010: 8:06 am
Thanks for the collection. The question is is there any that we shouldn’t use at all or one that is highly recommended? I need to make a site asap and I haven’t got the time to try all those out really. |
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April 11, 2010: 11:38 pm
It allows you to download data and upload downloadable products. The basic statics and sales data provided by the plugin is quite handy. |
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February 15, 2010: 1:02 pm
Lee the developer posts about PhPurchase, then right under he posts from his other business how the developer of PHPurchase (isn’t that you Lee?) was so great to work with. I think Lee would do better with the launch of his new product if he was just honest with people rather than trying to create these fake testimonials you find all over the web. |
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November 24, 2009: 11:57 pm
We are using PHPurchase for our WordPress ecommerce site. It was really easy to set up and the developers were very helpful tweaking my theme. You can find the plugin at PHPurchase.com |
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November 10, 2009: 11:03 pm
We have an ecommerce plugin for WordPress that is designed to be really easy to use especially if your site only sells a relatively small number of different products and you don’t want to be encumbered by the grid layouts and such that some plugins sort of force you into. Take a look at our plugin at .PHPurchase.com |
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October 29, 2009: 3:00 pm
Just wondering about some plugin. Is their any plugin for payphrase?? If you do came to know about the just post it in your blog. It would of great help. regards |
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October 14, 2009: 6:04 pm
Hi there Partho, Great list you’ve compiled here. I thought I’d recommend people look at ecommerce video solution https://Treepodia.com as an enhancement for product listings. The company, run and owned by friends of mine has created an automated video platform that is able to cover an etailer’s entire catalog with short product videos in 24 hours. Hope this is a useful tip. Cheers, |
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October 14, 2009: 11:00 am
Another great ecommerce plugin to sell downloads from your wordpress blog is DPD-Cart digitalproductdelivery.com/blog/downloads/dpd-wp-cart-plugin/ |
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