James came up with a great idea of 7 robust wordpress shopping carts. You might think of starting a membership site or selling a product, maybe now or in the future, then this post if for you.
The days of selling your stuff through eBay and Amazon are waning. Whilst these are still valuable sales tools, they have begun to lose some of their shine as sellers flock to these venues and drive down prices. 
What that leaves one with is building one’s own ecommerce solution and that can be time consuming and expensive – especially if you are selling a limited variety of items.
Since blogging has attracted so many steady readers, it only makes sense that people would begin to use blog posts to sell their wares – and that means it was only a matter of time before some entrepreneurial spirit would come along and develop shopping cart software that would work right in the blogging software. With WordPress being in the top tier of blogging software, it only made sense that developers would write ecommerce solutions that work within WordPress – turning the blogging software into sales software.
1. WP e-Commerce Plug-in: With over a half-million downloads, this is a powerful plug-in that makes creating a sales space within WordPress simple, yet robust. It offers a wide range of features including SSL compatibility, customization and merchandising, integrated payment processing solutions including Google Checkout and PayPal, and email marketing.
2. StorePress: StorePress integrates easily with your WordPress blog and uses a theme to create a shopping interface. It is compatible with Google Checkout and PayPal and incorporates sidebars to list shopping categories and image galleries. It also provides links to the customer’s shopping cart as well as checkout.
3. eShop Plugin for WordPress: This plugin provides a simplicity for those who are not comfortable creating their own store. It uses WordPress pages and posts to create products making the creation portion of sales simpler and faster. It gives the ability to create multiple options for a product, upload electronic download products, provides basic sales statistics, and can download sales data to your computer.
4. ShopperPress: Again, making shopping cart software simple to install and use adds to this software’s attractiveness. ShopperPress does this by making the shopping cart software a theme that can be easily installed and maintained. One of its strongest advantages is that it combines the merchant software along with an SEO tool to create a more comprehensive ecommerce solution that can actually help draw customers to your blog. It was created with the idea of turning your WordPress blog into a total ecommerce store and supports multiple payment options.
5. YAK Shopping Cart: This plugin gets its strength from its simplicity. It has three screens: one for showing orders, one for fulfilling them, and one for maintaining product management. Not as robust as many, but being much simpler to install and use than many ecommerce solutions may make this a good choice for those without a lot of technical know-how.
6. PHPurchase: If your goal is to develop your blog into a complete online sales presence, this may be the product for which you are looking. It manages everything from sales to shipping and integrates with WordPress. One of the most powerful features available is the ability to create multiple stores and to add greater customization than most e-commerce software for WordPress. It is best for those who are comfortable with customizing WP and are looking to create a complete package rather than sales as a sideline.
7. WP Auctions for WordPress: Of course, there are those out there who sell one-of-a-kind products that are hard to place a price upon. For those, auction software may be the best choice – and a lot better choice than the auction flea-market eBay has become. This software allows you to auction your wares or services without paying listing fees to auction sites. It lets you run the auction the way you want to run your auction.
WordPress has made blogging simpler. Third parties have made selling through blog posts easier. Between the two, ecommerce has become available to a greater number of people who are looking to avoid exorbitant fees, restrictions, and requirements. Choosing the right ecommerce software for WordPress in important, so be sure to check out each of the products available to ensure you get the right one for your sales opportunities.
This is a guest article from James Adams, a blogger who works with Cartridge Save where he writes about and reviews products such as the HP 57 ink cartridge and other supplies.
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20 Comments on "7 Robust WordPress Shopping Carts"
Hi
As a matter of interest, you mention YAK as “Not as robust as many”. Just wondering whether that’s based on an issue you’ve experienced or read about? It would be good to know, so I can add it to the list of future improvements.
Thanks,
Jason
Some wonderful plugin to build own online shopping hub right on WordPress. Thanks for this good compilation.
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This plugins are very much powerful for our online success. Let’s thank Oni for providing this information…
i guess those wordpress shopping carts are really useful. i will be trying them.
Wow thanks for this
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Wow thanks for this awesome resource. I’m not in need of a shopping cart solution for WordPress, but once I release a product later this year, I will… now I know where to go to choose!
It would be awesome if any of the above plugins included some kind of affiliate system, similar to what e-junkie has going on…
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Oh wow, thank you very much for the list. I did a site for a client a while back using the e-commerce plugin and had a lot of trouble tweaking it. I’ll definitely check this out next time around!
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I am using WP e-Commerce Plug-in on one of my client’s website and it is doing great. Thanks for the awesome list, this post is very useful for someone who is planing to run e-commerce on their wordpress blog.
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Cool post, but I don’t have anything to sell in my blog! Well this post will help in the coming days a lot!
Thank you Onibalusi for this wonderful message
keep it up.
I like it better when they squeeze them out.
Out of the seven plugins you have listed, I have only tried two- the one by Instinct and eShop. I found that neither was robust enough to accomplish what I need it them to accomplish.
Since I have been using OpenCart for my clients never looked back at trying to implement shopping cart on WordPress.
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I love opencart, I think its one of the best opensource carts around.
Hi Vaughn,
Yeah! You are absolutely right, opencart is really great.
Thanks a lot,
-Onibalusi
At the risk of being spammy, I just did a video walkthrough of opencart: http://www.shopping-cart-reviews.com/blog/2010/opencart-review-video-walkthrough/
I was seeking a post like this. Thanks a lot.
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i love this post its very nice article thanks for sharing and keep it up you work
OpenCart is so much better for e-commerce than WP with plug-ins in regards to business work flow and product management but I wanted to have a blog section as well for SEO and customers. I just found this web developer which has an Opencart blog plug-in for around $18: http://opencart.hostjars.com/modules
I know it is not a lot of money but I’d appreciate some feedback from people who have tried it.
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