5 plugins to turn your Wordpress into a fully functional eCommerce store

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5 plugins to turn your Wordpress into a fully functional eCommerce store

22 November 2009 9,327 views No Comment

Wordpress is becoming more & more flexible every day, no longer is it just a blogging platform. Now, by simply activating a plugin, you can transform your blog into a fully functional eCommerce store, ready to sell your products. Here is the list of best Wordpress eCommerce plugins, both free and paid:

1. WP-eCommerce (free) – the most popular eCommerce plugin, has been downloaded over 300,000 times so far. There’s a free version & a gold version, both also working with WP-MU. Main features:

* one page checkout
* product tagging
* themes
* downloadable products
* newsletters
* related products
* multiple payment gateways

You can check here the full list of WP-eCommerce features. And here is a tutorial how to setup this plugin:

2. eShop (free) – is an accessible shopping cart plugin for WordPress, packed with various features. Including:

* Utilises WordPress pages, or posts, to create products
* Various methods available for listing products
* Products can have multiple options
* Upload downloadable products
* Basic Statistics
* Download sales data
* Various shipping options
* Admin has access to an Order handling section
* Automatic emails on successful purchase
* User configurable email templates.
* Configurable Out of Stock message.
* Basic Stock Control
* Google Base Data creation
* Uninstall available within the plugin
* Various discount options
* WPMU compatible.
* Merchant gateways:Authorize.net, Paypal, Payson, eProcessingNetwork, Webtopay, iDEAL and Cash/Cheque

3. YAK for WordPress (free) – It 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 (cheque or deposit, basic credit card form, basic Google Checkout integration, standard PayPal integration, PayPal Payments Pro, and Authorize.net). YAK includes the following features:

* Create products from either posts or pages
* Downloadable products
* Multiple product types – price per type (i.e. small, medium, large) and quantity per type
* Order administration – filtering by date, status and order number
* Products page with paging (simple alternative to viewing by category)
* Configurable shipping (either flat rate or by weight unit)
* Configurable shipping address
* Configurable countries list
* Promotions – percentage or fixed discounts, on shipping or order value
* Sales Reports (basic flash charts showing sales, best sellers, etc)
* Support for https (SSL)
* Tags for configurable emails
* Basic XML feed
* Support for multiple shops (function to retrieve product details from another shop)
* Customer interface has been translated into a number of languages: Japanese, Chinese, Taiwan Chinese, Thai, Slovakian, Czech, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Swedish
* Support for WordPress MU

4. Quick Shop (free) – supports any Wordpress that has the 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.

5. Shopp ($55) – this is a commercial plugin for Wordpress with a rich featureset. The key features include:

* Single Page Product Data Entry
* Drag & Drop for multiple product images
* Support for Physical & Digital Products
* Order History
* Email Notifications
* RSS Feeds for Categories
* Fast Product Search
* Shipping Rate Calculations
* Shipping Discounts
* Promo Codes & Coupon Codes