15 Resources for Setting Up an E-Commerce Site with WordPress

Ethan,
FoxyCart isn’t exclusive to WordPress, which is the only focus of this post. FoxyCart was mentioned in yesterday’s post, E-Commerce Web Design Toolbox.

Thanks for mentioning WP e-Commerce http://instinct.co.nz/e-commerce first on the list.

We’re really making some good progress this year. Last week we silently launched 3.7 and got over 9000 + downloads (in one week!!) and there were not many reports of problems.

Next week we’ll be launching 3.7.1 which fixes some minor issues and includes some more core e-Commerce functionality for shop owners (stay tuned for the announcement).

The really inspiring thing for me about this post is that most of those themes either integrate WP e-Commerce Plugin out of the box “or” have been built specifically for the WP e-Commerce Plugin in the first place. It just shows how extensible our Plugin is and how keen people are to work with us.

Awesome post!!

Great post bro.
specially for the plug inns,
but will they work with ssl?

because currently I stuck with joomla v.mart.

thanks again for the post.

@Steven Snell,
thanks bro.
let me browse.

I want to know about follow-up comments so have checked the box.

**WARNING TO ALL READERS**
I have used WP E-Comm and Shopp and I have to say I will never use WordPress for an E-Comm site again. Its great if you’re bootstrapping and want a really simple store, but when you get into a project and clients start asking for coupon codes/combined shipping/Google Checkout you will just run into problems. Many of these plugins tout all these features that just happen to not work on “your setup”. No way. Do yourself a favor and look into using Joomla with Virtuemart or just go the hosted route of Shopify (fully customizable). You and your clients will thank me.

Hi,
I am searching for a markeplace shopping cart, where users can visit my web site and sell their stuff and that which includes a unified payment pipeline.

Regards
Brijesh

Thanks for the great list, Ive got a few wordpress blogs that I may try ecommerce with. If you dont have wordpress or just need a standalone, I highly recommend trying bigcommerce.com .

There are two free solutions from us –

1. FatFreeCart (http://www.fatfreecart.com/) which is literally copy-paste, no registration or product entry required. Good for tangible goods which do not require complex shipping or tax settings.

2. FatFreeCart Plugin for WordPress (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fatfreecart-wordpress-plugin/)

and, then a paid solution –

3. E-junkie (http://www.e-junkie.com/) – which has a monthly subscription fee, but you can pretty much sell anything (digital or tangible or service) anywhere with it.

Thanks for including wpShop, eGoods and the ArtShop in your list 🙂

Be sure to check out the folioShop as well. A hybrid portfolio, blog and shop theme. (just some shameless self-promotion here, he, he)

Oh and keep an eye out for the release of my new “The Clothes Shop” theme

Please have a shot at Zingiri Web Shop. A new e-commerce plugin for WordPress with plenty of features.

I just started using eStore, the “premium” version (it’s only $30) of Simple PayPal Shopping Cart (free and also very nice) for WordPress and it works really well and is very customizable (inventory, mutliple gateways, manual purchase, digital downloads and lots more) and the developer is very responsive, even adding tweaks and features on request within days of my giving him feedback.

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com

Hi, nice list of ressources.
I would add that as far as i’ve not found a simple solution to integrate e-junkie in wordpress site ( needed a wordpress blog subscriber account created automatically for the customers comming from e_junkie platform) … I’ve finished coding a beta version of a plugin “WP E-Junkie User” for wordpress that uses e-junkie notify url to create new users… Is someone interested?

-> Warning to U.S. based readers looking for an eCommerce solutions. Make sure you understand the sales tax laws in your jurisdiction and that the cart you are considering will support them. Many cart solutions do not support anything more than the most basic level of sales tax collection – by state. If you need to collect county, city or special district taxes, the best case is that you will have build mapping tables (and it will only work if those taxing authorities will actually tell you their zip boundaries.) If you live in Colorado, sales tax collection is by street address, NOT zip, and overlapping jurisdictions do not share boundaries in many, if not all cases. Not even PayPal suppports this level of sales tax detail – we have to use a vendor who specializes in sales tax collection for ecommerce. Many cart vendors will tell you that you can collect sales tax using their solution, but you need to make sure that it will work for your specific situation.

haha.. Love those Love-Hate relationship comments reg WP E-commerce. Used Wp-E myself and works fine… no problems… although keen to have a go with Shopp and PHPurchase as well…

Thanks for this, im looking to turn my blog into an online store, just the kind of post I needed 🙂

im looking to turn my blog into an online store, just the kind of post I needed 🙂

No one has mentioned the community version of Magento. Totally free and for a simple shop is a good product.

Hey Dan Milward —

Why do you advertise that FirstData is supported in WP eCommerce Gold Plug-in?

And then when it does not work, you refuse to answer a trouble ticket about it?

If your product does not integrate with FirstData Global Gateway, why advertise as such?

Beginning to think my client deserves a refund, but would rather just see the thing work.

You you could make changes to the post name 15 Resources for Setting Up an E-Commerce Site with WordPress – Web Design Blog – DesignM.ag to more better for your webpage you write. I loved the the writing still.

tnx !

Let me explore all an above resources. Hope, it helps me to set up a top ecommerce site.

Good Post, we are looking for help with this as its something we want to do

Here is a good one too

http://themeforest.net/item/mazine-wordpress-theme-a-wp-ecommerce-theme/198602

Disappointed at the current batch of plug-ins out there and after many months of development we’ve launched our own WordPress for eCommerce solution: Jigoshop.

Download the free version via WordPress.com or find out more here http://jigoshop.com/. We’ve also launched an awesome responsive design eCommerce theme called Jigotheme so your new store will even look cool on your tablet or smartphone.

Premium version on the way all the bells and whistles. Would be interested to see what everyone thinks.

We’ve used Shopp before and are pretty happy with that (although we’ve had to dig into it to customize specific things for clients). The first one listed, WordPress e-commerce was a total bust both times we tried it. Major errors in functionality that we couldn’t get around. We’ll have to look at some of these other ones from the list.

I’d just like to point out the WP e-Commerce Plugin and WPML just launched an awesome unified update.

This is quite a significant move – and for us it is a game changer:
http://wpml.org/2011/07/finally-multilingual-wp-e-commerce/

We looked at JigoCart (Thanks Andy) but we were disappointed at how light weight it is. It may be suitable for small shops that don’t need any advanced functionality but it is years away from being a contender in the retail space. People serious about E-Commerce will stick with WP e-Commerce or Shopp.

In a perfect world the WPEC team and Jigo team would collaborate, I’m disappointed that there are so many people recreating the wheel and doing a so so job at it.