Top choices for WordPress shopping carts

Top choices for WordPress shopping carts

WordPress is quickly becoming a fully-featured, powerful and dynamic content management system and not just a blogging tool.  The geniuses over at WordPress.org are continually improving and expanding the codex while miraculously protecting the speed, simplicity and ease of WordPress. In tandem with the developers, theme creators are continually pushing the limits of WordPress to [...]

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WordPress is quickly becoming a fully-featured, powerful and dynamic content management system and not just a blogging tool.  The geniuses over at WordPress.org are continually improving and expanding the codex while miraculously protecting the speed, simplicity and ease of WordPress.

In tandem with the developers, theme creators are continually pushing the limits of WordPress to new heights.  As we move into this new era of WordPress uses, the idea of creating e-commerce applications in WordPress is expanding rapidly.  We looked at the current options and selected our top choices when selecting a WordPress shopping cart.

WordPress Shopping Cart

Key Features:

  • A full shopping cart (not just a payment processor), allowing users to add and remove products from their cart and then “checkout”.
  • Integrates with WordPress Affiliate Software
  • Integrates with Paypal and 2Checkout
  • Integrates with Nexgen gallery

Check out the forum for some insight into user experiences with this plugin.

ShopperPress Theme/Plugin

Key Features

  • Affiliate support
  • Support for drop shipping products
  • Software or product download support
  • Free trial version

Check out the forum for some insight into user experiences with this plugin.

Zack Design WordPress Shopping Cart

There hasn’t been an update on this page since 2007 but we thought we’d let you make your own decision.

WordPress E-Commerce Plugin

Key Features

  • Boasting 500,000 downloads
  • Integrates with Social Networking services
  • In addition to Paypal, offers Google Checkout, Payment Express and Authorize.net as payment gateway options
  • Single page checkout designed to help distractable customers

Check out the forum for some insight into user experiences with this plugin.

eShop Shopping Cart Plugin

Key Features

  • Uses the existing WordPress framework (products are posts or pages)
  • Downloadable products and download statistics
  • Stock control
  • Works with WPMU
  • Supports Authorize.net, Paypal, Payson, eProcessingNetwork, Webtopay, iDEAL and Cash/Cheque

Check out the forum for some insight into user experiences with this plugin.

YAK for WordPress

Key Features

  • Also turns posts into products
  • Product categories (using post categories)
  • Order sorting
  • Promotion support
  • SSL Support

Check out the forum for some insight into user experiences with this plugin.

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User Comments


  1. Keith from Find Blog Ideas
    February 4, 2010

    good to know for future reference, E-junkie seems to be a good choice for selling electronic products like e-books, 5 dollars a month.



  2. Jason from Edmonton Movers
    February 5, 2010

    These are some great options that are fairly easy to implement. I personally prefer Zen Cart. Though it’s not exactly made for WordPress, it is still possible to integrate it with WordPress because they’re both written in PHP. Here’s a good guide I found for integrating Zen Cart into WP:
    http://www.joshdavisblog.com/2009/03/integrating-wordpress-zen-cart



  3. Jeff from freelance blogger
    February 10, 2010

    This is good to know. I was looking for an ecommerce plugin for WordPress and found 6! What a bonus. WordPress Shopping Cart should do the trick.



  4. Valleri from Cleveland Insurance
    February 11, 2010

    Which of these shopping carts offers the ability to keep users on your site with your own SSL? Paypal always kind of turned me off. But 2CO is not bad considering they are a fellow Ohio company. :) Still, I think it is important to be professional and accept payments on your site vs a third party.



  5. Teena from V8 Supercars
    February 12, 2010

    This is a good guide for our future use. Thank you for sharing this information.



  6. R Kumar from earn money online
    February 13, 2010

    A good list of options for shopping carts. There are a few free options as well that are available for integration with WordPress. A mention about a few such carts would have been helpful.



  7. lazygirl
    February 14, 2010

    Believe it or not, I had no idea that WordPress has shopping cart plugins. Very, very cool. While I don’t sell anything on my blog, this is still awesome to know. Thanks!



  8. George from iPad
    February 17, 2010

    Good informations on this blog. This shopping thing was a “long term fact” on my todolist. Nice I was able to fix it now ;-)



  9. sted
    February 18, 2010

    wordpress is a tough nut for me…blogger is much easier for my simple postings….



  10. Samantha from Drop Shipping for Dummies
    February 22, 2010

    Wow I had no idea you could have a shopping cart in wordpress!



  11. Richard from Broadband Plans
    February 26, 2010

    I’ve used WP Ecommerce quite a few times now and while not perfect it does a pretty good job for store with a reasonable number of items. I love WordPress but for a totally dedicated online store I would go with WordPress



  12. Sharon from Edmonton Plumber
    March 1, 2010

    The shopping cart is a great idea, however one must wonder how helpful it really is in the long run. Will it be secure? Is it the best way to upgrade? I love wordpress, but I’m always wary when things move out of their “norm”



  13. readbud
    March 9, 2010

    I didn’t know wordpress supported shopping carts, I always thought Joomla was for that. Thanks for the interesting fact and read – great blog!



  14. Josh from Real Estate Corporation
    March 17, 2010

    I’ve spent the past days testing many of these, and I’m sad to say that the support, install instructions, and other assistance that should exist for all the free WP shopping cart platforms are weak, at best. Time to dig deeper and play with some of the paid ones . . . they better raise the bar or I’m sticking with ejunkie (does a great job, BTW!)



  15. Jill from Providence Shopping
    April 25, 2010

    Wordpress seems pretty cool, but I haven’t dabbled enough with it I think. My shopping site has been coming along nicely, but I do need to make a blog for it though, so I need to start “shopping” around for blog creation sites. I’ve heard wordpress and blogspot are best. I may also need a shopping cart down the road as well. Thanks.



  16. Robert from wordpress themes
    May 13, 2010

    If you handle a small inventory I think the plugin could handle it, but for large quantities I think the wordpress database wont be scalable enough.



  17. sam
    May 14, 2010

    I tried a lot of WP shopping plugins in order to replace xt commerce with wordpress. But I haven´t found the right one yet. I hope someday somebody programs ONE plugin that suits to all my needs.



  18. Bob Jenson from Wellington Web Design
    June 13, 2010

    I’ll be doing a lot of e-commerce sites but currently using Joomla with VirtueMart. I’m very happy with it, apart from there’s not much support on the VM site of things (although that may improve soon).
    Do you have any opinions on WP with this plugin vs Joomla and VM?

    Cheers,
    Bob.



  19. Cyrus
    June 13, 2010

    Hi Bob,
    I have used VM quite a bit in my Joomla! days. It did the trick, but usually offered way more than I needed. And you’re right a robust support community is the difference between a good and bad piece of code.

    I have used WP eShop on a live site and was very happy with it.

    Regards,
    Cyrus



  20. Bob from Wellington Web Design
    June 14, 2010

    Thanks for the reply Cyrus. I’ll check WP and eShop out!

    Cheers,
    Bob.



  21. Angela from Freelance webdesign
    June 17, 2010

    I simply can’t believe the WP E-Commerce plugin has been downloaded more than half a MILLION times! That is just huge! Unbelievable.

    Thanks for this extensive list, but which one would you recommend, Cyrus? The e-shop then?



  22. Cyrus
    June 18, 2010

    Hi Angela,
    I have used eShop the most and would recommend that one.

    Regards,
    Cyrus



  23. Matt Vincik
    June 25, 2010

    We have been working with wordpress for a few years now. We recently started using a plugin from Tribulant Software. It has by far been the most impressive software out of anything we have tested. I have even contacted their support team with recommendations for their next software releases and they get back pretty quick with a friendly response. I highly recommend that you check it out.



  24. David
    July 24, 2010

    Great information on WP, I had no idea about its ecommece potential,thanks!



  25. Kathleen from Kids Tables and Chairs
    July 29, 2010

    Your suggestions are great! But you may also want to inlude the osCommerce tool too. Aside from the features that you have mentioned on the other shopping cart plug in, it has the unlimited products and categories, newsletter subscription, and payment processing which I find essential specially if you want to keep regular customers on your web site.



  26. emily from label
    August 5, 2010

    I agree for OsCommerce, lot of people forget it but it has a very good shopping cart plugin as well. Anyway, we can all agree that shopping cart is definitly a key component.



  27. Thomas Eilander
    August 10, 2010

    For now I’d rather use WordPress for Blogsites and not for E-commerce sites. I’ll check these out and maybe I change my mind.


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