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10+ Best eCommerce Plugins For WordPress

By Ammar Ali 8 Comments

Looking for Best eCommerce Plugins For WordPress ? Here it is.

With the recent advancements in technology, internet is being used by more and more people every day.  As a result online shopping has been much popular amongst consumers these days. You can easily check out various brands and compare prices and what’s even more satisfying is that you need not move a muscle.

All of this is done by a single click. You can read reviews and consumer’s advice about various products and brands. Though there is countless number of ways to do this, but in this article we will be discussing about some very cool and popular Best eCommerce Plugins For WordPress which one may easily incorporate in his blog or website for eCommerce.

eCommerce Plugins

Table of Contents
  • 10+ Best eCommerce Plugins For WordPress
    • Ecwid:
    • Cart66:
    • eShop:
    • WP eCommerce:
    • Minicart:
    • Quick Shop:
    • Shopp:
    • YAK for WP:
    • WP Auctions:
    • ArtPal:
    • Are Pay Pal  eCommerce Plugins For WordPress

10+ Best eCommerce Plugins For WordPress

Ecwid:

The first plugin in our list of Free Best eCommerce Plugins For WordPress is Ecwid. It is always said that the best things in this world are priceless. So is true for this plugin because it is free to use. It is a shopping cart system which is easy to install and even easier to. It is fully customizable so you can decide how it looks on your site.The drawback is that this plugin uses Ajax, so SEO value of website is affected. Moreover the users who do not have JavaScript enabled will not be able to use it.

Cart66:

Irrespective of your product type and services, you can easily take payments from buyers using this plugin called cart66 (formerly known as PHPurchase). This plugin itself will cost you a few bucks but it is very useful. You can create multiple stores using this and can customize their interface as well.

eShop:

This is a full ecommerce plugins system for WP. And moreover it’s free. The admin dashboard is very friendly and it is very simple to add new products, review products and checking statistics. It is very customizable as well.
But the problem is with payment options. One can only use PayPal, Payson accounts or you can use eShop to take in payments, but with eShop option you will not be able to print the customer invoice which is possible with other payment options.

WP eCommerce:

This is a fully feature-rich plugin that is free of cost. This adds a shopping cart to your blog rather easily and quickly. You have various payment options supported including Google checkout and Pay Pal. Various social marketing tools also come integrated with the plugin through which you can also connect to Facebook Marketplace. The only downside is that this plugin requires frequent maintenance and this can become a really cumbersome task. Looks great eCommerce Plugin for wordpress.

Minicart:

This provides a button which can easily be embedded into blogs and websites to accept payments or even request donations. This can be helpful if your blog is shared across the internet via RSS because it allows every blog entry to act as its very own mini store.

Quick Shop:

This is useful with the themes that have a sidebar installed as this plugins gives a sidebar shopping cart option in your cart. The plugin requires PHP 5 and you need to make your own CSS. The plugin is really customizable though.

Shopp:

This is an excellent plugin but comes with a price tag of 55$. What you will be getting is a single license to this plugin, some extra plugins and modules, and priority for support. This plugin is specially designed for big firms which can use this as a solution to all their online shopping problems.

YAK for WP:

If you already have an online retail presence, and want to create a blog to make sure your customers are constantly updated about the latest products and services offered by you, then this YAK plugin is an unbeatable option for you. This is an open-source shopping plugin which allows categorization of products and services, and gives the users a pool of multiple payment options.

WP Auctions:

This is a completely revolutionary Best eCommerce Plugins For WordPress which allows you to auction anything on your website and that too completely for free. You need not hassle about seller fee, gallery fee, final value fee, listing fee or any other type of irritating fee to sell your product online. What you need to do is to just create your own auction and register your plugin on the WP Auctions live page which will generate traffic for your website. A host can create as many auctions he intends to. But you can receive payment only via Pay Pal.

ArtPal:

This is another free WP plugin for selling online. This was originally created for the artists to sell their art work online through their own blogs and websites. One can seamlessly integrate his/her Pay Pal account with this plugin and leave the rest on this plugin. This plugin does real time sales update, so as soon as your product is sold it will be excluded from your catalogue. You need not worry about your product being sold twice.

Are Pay Pal  eCommerce Plugins For WordPress

You can use this plugin if you want to provide privileges to access exclusive content of your blog, only to the registered users. It will restrict the guests from seeing the hidden content. It is basically designed to sell stuff which cannot be shown to all people , like digital arts or some intellectual property. Instead of showing the content to the unregistered users, they are shown with the actions they need to take (such as registering with you via a minimal payment) to view that content. Google’s bot can although index that hidden content, so that users can search for it but they cannot see and access it without registration. This plugin uses Pay Pal – IPN (Instant Payment Notification) protocol so that the payment and content delivery processes are quick and automatic.
These are 10+ Best eCommerce Plugins For WordPress . Did I missed any free eCommerce plugins for WordPress? Let me know in comments!

This article has been authored by Vishal Shetty, who recommends Pacebutler.com , a company which offers cash for used cell phones and also donates a book for each phone sold to them.

Filed Under: WordPress, WordPress Plugins

About Ammar Ali

A blogger, web designer, front-end developer and WordPress specialist since 2011. I started this blog during high school. Here I share what I've learned so far and what I continue to learn through blogging so that I can be of assistance in some way to improve your blog. Read more here.

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  1. Ricky1990 says

    November 22, 2012 at 1:51 am

    I’m finding a wordpress plugin which helps me to create a online store. I found your site from google and WP e-Commerce Plugin helped me to do this. Thanks for your help. Thank so much !

    Reply
  2. linda says

    August 16, 2012 at 5:33 pm

    Great plugins , this kind of post only i was looking for , really thanks for sharing this awesome list of Plugins for wordpress…will try out soon and tell my feedback :)

    Reply
  3. Aliakbar Fakhri says

    August 15, 2012 at 10:26 pm

    Thanks for the reviews.
    i was looking for a good eCommerce plugin for WP.
    thanks… dat i found your Blog!!
    Your blog is really Great!
    Many Thanks

    Reply
  4. PrIyAnGsHu says

    August 15, 2012 at 2:32 pm

    Yes, this is the post I have been looking for. I’m thinking to start an eCommerce marketplace with WordPress, and have been searching for some plugins to make the whole work a lot easier. I will surely give these plugins a shot. Thanks for this awesome post.

    Reply
  5. Batara says

    August 14, 2012 at 4:41 pm

    I am just confused by too many outstanding plugins out there, so is there any special tips for choosing in addition to considering the function and performance of the plugin? of course we all agree that using a lot of plugin negatively impact on the seo.

    Reply
  6. Gautham Nekkanti says

    August 14, 2012 at 6:48 am

    eShop is one of the best E-Commerce Plugin, It is an exceptional Payment Gateway as well as Shopping Cart. I’ve been using it for few of my sites. I will try out other plugins too, Thanks for sharing Ammar

    Reply
  7. Bharat says

    August 13, 2012 at 9:53 am

    Ammar, how could you miss the most popular eCommerce plugin ? I’m talking about WooCommerce from WooThemes, the rock-solid open source eCommerce plugin for WordPress.

    Reply
  8. Brian Harry says

    August 8, 2012 at 2:48 am

    I often use paypal because for me having that plugin and receiving money is all that matters but you have introduce me to the real secret of internet e-comerce techniques.

    Reply

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