Here I am presenting the best list of top wordpress eCommerce plugins for 2012. All of these plugins are compatible with latest version of wordpress and are easy to use with most advanced features. Don’t get confused just grab and use them. All of them are free to download and use. You can get the support from the wordpress forum
I think you already know this, but then just for for information. WordPress is the world’s most used and downloaded blogging tool. More than 5 millions of best blogs and companies use this platform to server content and products to their customers and readers. With every advancing day : wordpress is getting much more better and simple.
Free WordPress eCommerce Plugins For 2012
WooCommerce : Here’s the one of the most fine tuned eCommerce plugin presented by woo themes. This plugin is actually built for woo themes, but can be used on ay kind of themes built for wordpress. Its very powerful and very flexible. As said :
Helps you sell anything. Beautifully
- It has been built on wordpress core for maximum stability. It has lots of hooks and filters so that you could give your desired look to your online shop
- Custom reporting and statics on every product sale and visits, all from the wordpress dashboard
- So much customizable. The stabilizability increases if you select the woo commerce theme, but it works with almost every theme including the default theme of wordpress that is twenty eleven
- It has lots of filters and short-codes, this enable you to include the built-ins, products, cost price almost anywhere you may think of
- This plugins comes with prebuilt modules and some of them are :
- Paypal Standard Gateway
- Flat Rate Shipping
- Free shipping
- Google analytic and many more..
If you want any review on WOO themes then check it out here : WOO Themes Review
Ready! eCommerce Shopping Cart
Another best wordpress eCommerce plugin. Actually better to say shopping cart plugin which have lots of features along with free themes.
Some unique features of this plugin :
- Manual Payment Options for users (via checks/or through money orders)
- PayPal Payments Standard
- PayPal Payments Pro
- PayPal Express Checkout
- 2Checkout payment option
- Now you can easily setup tax related options
- You can show cart as widget or as post
- Every visitors get step by step guide for checkout process
- Set up your own Shipping Fees
- Setup your Delivery Rates
- Free WordPress E-commerce Theme included
- Show as featured : Special Products, Gifts, Coupons Pack added
ShippingEasy
Shipingeasy is a powerful online platform which gets integrated with your WP eCommerce store completely. You get complete set of custom features from tracking to setting up shipment prizes. Actually its like an addon to WP-eCommerce plugin This plugin utilizes the api of Shipping easy.
Features :
- Works with almost any wordpress theme
- Integrates with WP-eCommerce
- It adds the restful API connecting to my store hub
- This plugin add the shippingEasy rate calculator
Shipping options :
- International prizes set and shipping options
- Discounted rates from world’s largest courier
- It can support multiple platform, if you have more than one online store
- Custom shipment reports for buyers
- 24/7 support system with live chat, email support and phone support
WP eCommerce
This is the most downloaded free wordpress eCommerce plugin in 2012. Actually I have little bit of problem with this plugin. And the problem is its features. I just can’t write whole of the custom functions and set of features provided by this plugin. There’s a huge list.. But over here I am pointing out few of its features
- Very easy to install and use
- Works with almost any kind of theme
- Easy to modify pre-built templates
- It utilizes templates tags and short tags
- Its just 100 percent customizable..
- You can use your own HTML and css codes
- Its has got amazing support system
- Their are lots of video tutorials
- Their are lots of payment gateway options including PayPal, Google checkout, PayPal Payflow pro, Authorize.net and many more.
Marketing, Shipping and Search engine optimization
- Integrated Facebook marketing
- Google maps
- Discount offers and gifts
- Quantity discounts
- Search engine friendly URLS
- new product widgets available
- Connect with UPS, USPS, Australia Post
- Built in shopping cart rate calculator
- Options to create account before the purchase of the product
- Fully customizable page
- Easy integration with all in one seo
- Integrates easily with google XML sitemaps
Their are many other free and premium plugins available on internet. Make sure you try them on test sites before start using them directly. Since they all have lots of features which are for advanced users. So its always better to know their functionality before using them. I wish you would have liked my article and the list of free wordpress eCommerce plugins. If you have any recommendations, then please leave them in comment.
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Hello!
I used a great plugin for wp-ecommerce called “WP E-commerce Authorize.Net”
http://codecanyon.net/item/wp-ecommerce-authorizenet/4494116
This Plugin allows the WP E-Commerce Store owners to accept credit cards. It can take less then 5 minutes to set up and is by far the quickest way to integrate Authorize.net.