I have listed for you here all of WordPress shopping cart solutions: plugins, hybrids, lightweight plugins, and even hosted carts.
Let me first briefly explain what makes each one of these four types different:
Shopping cart plugins — these plugins provide the full functionality of a shopping cart. They turn WordPress into a complete and professional online store. But they do not change the appearance of your store. To customize the appearance of a store, you will need to either modify your theme or use one of the pre-built themes for the plugins.
Shopping cart hybrids — these are plugin/theme hybrids. Essentially, they are themes with the shopping cart functionality embedded. These solutions take care of the presentation as well as the functionality of your store. While they’re generally easier to use and setup, they’re not as flexible and customizable as plain shopping cart plugins.
Lightweight shopping cart plugins — these are simpler shopping cart plugins that are used to sell only a few items on your blog or non-ecommerce site. They usually only integrate with one popular payment processor, e.g. PayPal or Google Checkout, and don’t have many shipping options or inventory control capabilities.
Plugins to integrate WordPress with 3rd-party shopping carts — these don’t bring shopping cart functionality to your WordPress site. Rather, they help you integrate WordPress with a 3rd party shopping cart solutions.
WordPress Shopping Cart Plugins
The top three shopping cart plugins.
Shopp ($55) is full of features and each feature is developed to a great depth and with care. So, it certainly goes beyond the basics. It has a wide array of supported payment gateways and shipping carriers. Download »»
Cart66 ($89) also covers the basics and beyond. While its features are not as extensive as Shopp, it is very reliable and solidly built. It has excellent integration with WordPress API. Perhaps that’s why it powers the official WordPress Swag Store. Download »»
GetShopped (free) is one of the earliest shopping cart plugins for WordPress. It used to be a little shaky, but its more recent versions have seen tremendous improvements. While official support for the plugin is lacking, its community is huge. Download »»
The following is a side-by-side comparison of the top three shopping cart plugins. I’ve rated them based on how well they perform in each comparison criteria.
You can click on the criteria link to read more about it and how different plugins perform in it.
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| Payment methods | PayPal Express, PayPal Standard, Google Checkout, 2Checkout, Authorize.Net, CyberSource, eWay, Beanstream, First Data, HSBC, iDEAL, Merchant Warrior, PayPal Payflow, PayPal Pro, Payson, Sage Pay | PayPal Pro, PayPal Standard, PayPal Express, Authorize.Net, Quantum Gateway, Eprocessing Network | PayPal Standard, PayPal Pro, PayPal Express, Google Checkout, ChronoPay |
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| The money | 1-site: $55 Unlimited: $299 Extra payment gateways: $25/each Extra shipping carriers: $25/each |
1-site: $89 5-sites: $179 Unlimited: $399 |
Essential add-ons: $50/each* Basic plugin is free |
| Total stars | 66.5 | 66 | 64 |
| Download here | Download here | Download here |
More Awesome Shopping Cart Plugins
While the three above plugins are definitely great and well rounded, they’re not the only ones available. The plugins below are also unique in their strengths.
eShop (free) has most of the features that put it in direct competition with the top three plugins above. Yet, it is completely free. Download »»
MarketPress ($39) is most impressive because of how well it is integrated with WordPress. While it lacks some features, it’s built on a solid foundation that makes it infinitely extensible. Download »»
Tribulant Shopping Cart ($55) provides plenty of bang for the buck. It is full of advanced features, such as integration with shipping carriers, but only costs $55. Download »»
YAK (free) is minimalist in its appearance, but not any less sophisticated than the other plugins in features. It’s best suited for a small shop that needs advanced payment processing. Download »»
DukaPress (free) handles shopping cart integration with WordPress in a smart and efficient manner. It also has more pre-built themes than the average plugin. Download »»
wpStoreCart (free) has most of the features that you’d need in a shopping cart, but I found its features to fall a little short of meeting customer requirements. Download »»
WordPress Shopping Cart Hybrids
This is a list of WordPress shopping cart theme/plugin hybrids.
ShopperPress ($79) has plenty of shopping cart options and features and plenty of appearance customization features. Yet, it is very easy to use thanks to the setup wizard and the extensive online documentation. It also includes more than 20 child themes. For its features, it is fairly priced at $79 only. Download »»
Market Theme ($55) is a very user-friendly shopping cart solution for WordPress. While its features are limited, it is very reliable and easy to use. It’s very affordable at $55 only and it is backed by a solid satisfaction guarantee. Download »»
Templatic Ecommerce ($65) is a shopping cart solution by Templatic. It’s a collection of different themes that are all powered by the same shopping cart code. Each ecommerce theme from Templatic costs $65. Buy one of these if you’ve fallen in love with the designs — as there’s nothing special in the functionality. Download »»
Here’s a more detailed comparison of these three hybrid solutions:
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| Payment methods | PayPal (Pro & Standard), Google Checkout, Authorize.Net, WorldPay Protx, CC Avenue, AlertPay, eWay, 2Checkout, PayFast, PayWeb, NoChex ePay, Realex, MoneyBookers, MonsterPay, Setcom, PayTrace | PayPal Standard, Google Checkout, Authorize.Net | PayPal Standard, Google Checkout, Authorize.Net, WorldPay, 2Checkout |
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| The money | Unrestricted license: $79 | Standard license: $55 Developer license: $150 |
Standard license: $65/theme Developer license: $99/theme All themes unlimited: $299 |
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Lightweight Shopping Cart Plugins for WordPress
These lightweight shopping cart plugins are all free. They can be downloaded from WordPress.org plugin directory.
WordPress lightweight shopping cart plugins include:
Simple PayPal Shopping Cart by Tips and Tricks HQ is the most downloaded and highest rated lightweight shopping cart plugin on WordPress.org. I like the way it works. It outsources location-based shipping and tax calculations to PayPal. It is simple to use, yet highly customizable. Download »»
FatFreeCart works with PayPal and Google Checkout. I think it’s very underrated. It supports product variations, taxes, and shipping & handling fees. It also has a nice ajax-powered shopping cart view. While the plugin is made by e-junkie, it works completely independently of the e-junkie service. Download »»
Quick Shop is a popular lightweight cart plugin. It only works with PayPal, but it provides more flexibility than usually expected from a plugin in its category. It allows the merchant to set the currency and even provide free shipping for orders exceeding a certain amount. Download »»
LBak Google Checkout, as the name implies, only works with Google Checkout. It is very simple, yet very usable. It is for merchants who deal in U.S. dollars and charge a fixed shipping rate per product. The plugin also supports product variations. Download »»
3rd-Party Shopping Cart Integration Plugins
By the strictest definition, the following aren’t really shopping cart plugins for WordPress. They are plugins that merely integrate WordPress with a 3rd party shopping cart. I haven’t reviewed these because the quality and usefulness of each plugin is highly reliant on the 3rd party solution, whose details are beyond the scope of this page.
However, I have listed for you here some 3rd party shopping carts with the plugin(s) that facilitate their WordPress integration.
Ecwid is a hosted shopping cart that aims to be compatible with any website, hassle-free, and lightening-fast. Its integration plugin is, by far, the most popular among its competitors. It has an official WordPress integration plugin.
FoxyCart is a hosted cart with highly customizable CSS and HTML. It should easily integrate with WordPress using XML and JSON. And its checkout flow is highly optimized to increase conversions. There are two plugins that help you integrate FoxyCart with WordPress. The more popular one is FoxyShop. The other is FoxyPress.
BigCommerce is a popular hosted shopping cart solution because of its ease of use, good support, and affordability. Its integration plugin can be downloaded here.
Wazala is kind of similar to Ecwid in that it can be installed and integrated into any website easily. While it’s capable of selling physical goods, Wazala also puts a lot of emphasis on its ability to sell digital products. The Wazala team has developed an integration plugin for WordPress.
Volusion is another very popular hosted shopping cart solution. It has a rich feature set, including the ability to manage affiliates, ready-to-use templates, mobile shopping sites, and more. Its WordPress integration plugin doesn’t seem to be widely utilized. Anyway, it can be downloaded here.
Magento, I understand, is to ecommerce what WordPress is to blogging…or something like that. Anyway, it’s a very popular open-source ecommerce platform and now it can be tightly integrated with WordPress using plugins like Magento WordPress Integration.
And more shopping cart plugins for WordPress…
I update this page periodically. During the most recent update, some plugins were either not ready yet or didn’t show on my radar on time. We’re working on these reviews. In the meantime, here’s a little bit about each one of those plugins:
WooCommerce is a free ecommerce solution by the popular WordPress theme development shop, WooThemes. Its code is based on Jigoshop but it puts additional emphasis on UI. Like Jigoshop, premium themes and extensions and support are only offered to paying subscribers. Download»»
Jigoshop is the new kid on the shopping cart scene, but it quickly gained popularity. I’m not sure why, but it must be because it’s doing something well. It’s a full shopping cart plugin and it is free. But support, premium themes, and premium extensions are paid. Download»»
Zingiri Web Shop is a free ecommerce plugin that’s available from WordPress.org. It has a pretty good rating on the plugin directory. There’s also the Zingiri ecommerce web service, I’m not sure what the relationship between the service and the plugin is. They seem independent of each other. Download »»
StorePress is a premium WordPress theme with embedded ecommerce functionality. It is capable of creating online stores that promote affiliate products. Download»»
TheCartPress is another free ecommerce plugin that’s available from WordPress.org. It also has a decent rating on the official plugin directory. There’s a dedicated website and community for the plugin. Download»»
WP Online Store is available from WordPress.org for free. The plugin is an integration between osCommerce and WordPress. Looking at the plugin’s website, though, it doesn’t feel as clean as the stuff I’m used to with WordPress. But the plugin does have a fairly good rating on WordPress.org. Premium add-ons and services are offered on the plugin’s website. Download»»
If you know a shopping cart plugin that is missing from this list, please let us know in the comments!
Thank you for compiling all of this info. It looks amazing (although I don’t understand alot of it
I am a dance instructor who is creating content to sell from my site. I will be offering videos, books, an ebook, a DVD home study course, retreats and local classes. I also want to be able to capture people’s name and email when they come to my site in exchange for a free ebook download. Do all shopping carts have this capability? I am brand new to this stuff. I was looking at 1shoppingcart.com. Is that a good one or are the ones you recommended better?
Thank you for your help!
I am a singer-songwriter and I’m rewriting my website in wordpress (theme twenty-ten). I would like to offer the following features:
- hear excerpts of my songs (I have about 50 at the moment)
- download the songs as mp3 on a “pay what you like” basis (possibly with small minimum)
- download the text with chords on a “pay what you like” basis (possibly with small minimum)
- order CDs (I have 2 but do not intend to produce (m)any in the future)
- shipping charge to add
- payment methods: Downloads – paypal; CDs – prepayment or against invoice, (no credit cards) plus ability to record who has paid what
I’d be very grateful if you could suggest plug-ins which might be suitable for this.
Thanks
James
Hi James
You should check out Wazala. Has everything you mentioned, and have gone the extra mile to adapt to music sales. The entire process is secure and nothing gets delivered until you get paid, either via PayPal, Google Checkout, Authorize.net and COD/invoicing/wire transfer. You can even do digital sales with invoicing, and once you state your received the money the download takes place. Very customizable in those ways, and allows for ala carte or full album sales.
Works with any WP theme, as well as awesome support and the subscription is a low flat rate monthly fee.
www.wazala.com
Hi James,
If I were you, I would check out the Genesis theme for WP E-Commerce Dan mentions in this comment thread. Using that, with the donation model in WP E-Commerce, you’d be able to have a great music website that would allow people to pay whatever they like.
Hi,
I really enjoyed the article. I was just looking a bit of advice of which plugin to use for my specific requirements (I’m thinking Shopp),
I will be a bed company selling approx 100 products. I need widgets like Most Popular, Items on sale, Categories like different size beds etc etc,
Which one do you think I should go with, I prefer one with a one off payment for the license and has good online support and documentation.
Thanks for any help..
Hi Barry, Shopp is pretty good for what you described. It has plenty of useful widgets, doesn’t require a subscription to use, and has good support and documentation.
currently evaluating options for a tee shirt shop
can i ask why you guys went for wordpress and what shop you would recommend for retailing?
This article was amazing– I’m wondering if anyone can help me with these specific needs:
1) I use quickbooks as my credit card processor. So I’m looking for a shopping cart that is compatible with both wordpress and intuit merchant services. If that’s not possible, I’d appreciate any suggestions of other merchant accounts/gateways that are cost effective and integrate well with wordpress and quickbooks.
2) I sell live and online screenwriting classes, so shipping isn’t a concern. But payment plans are. So I’m looking for a cart that allows students to easily choose between payment plans and pay full options, and which is good for delivering digital goods.
3) I’m currently using woo themes “Bueno” theme and don’t really want to change my website’s theme. So I’m looking for a solution that will integrate well with my existing theme.
4) I’m computer savvy, but have limited technical knowledge and am doing all my own programming. So I need something that I can figure out.
I greatly appreciate any guidance you can give me.
jake
Hi Jacob, Thanks for your kind words. Why don’t you check out Cart66? It is good for handling digital downloads as well as seamless integration with any theme. It does not work Intuit merchant solutions, as far as I know, but it integrates with many payment processors that allow you to export transaction data in QuickBooks format.
Thank you M.K. for the great info. Are you familiar with WP Online Store? I was thinking about it but hesitant because it seems quite new.
Hi Terry, Thanks for your comment. I wasn’t aware of WP Online Store, but now it’s included in the list above.
Thanks, I look forward to a future review.
Great article! am using cart66 for our online store. However, I would have wished that Jigoshop came earlier
cart66, while being good, still lacks some things we users want, especially paying users =(
Hi Leo, Can you be more specific as to what exactly Cart66 lacks?
It seems to me that Cart66 lacks photo icons in the cart. You also cannot link back to the item from the cart.
are jigoshop or woo-comerce working with wpml ?
I’m the author of TurboCart.
TurboCart is a robust hosted, light weight shopping cart solution designed for simple integration within your website. It runs in the Heroku cloud application platform for speed, scalability and reliability. The downloadable content is delivered via Amazon S3.
At the moment i have a 60 day risk free trial to let people try it out
Hey MK
Just wanted to thank you for including us in this great list! Yes we do offer great support on digital product sales and offer some cool sampling capabilities for musicians selling music & merch in a single store. We also offer the pop up as an option, great coupon, shipping options and a mobile optimized store to name a few.
Again thanks for the mention, much appreciated!
Wazala Team
My pleasure. Thanks for your comment!
Great post. Very helpful breaking the types down as you have.
What would you recommend for this simple scenario: a website selling 1 book in both physical and electronic forms, using Paypal to process payments?
It only really needs the Simple Paypal Shopping Cart, but if I want to secure the digital download or limit the amount of times it is downloaded then it doesn’t quite cut it. I’m not familiar enough with the likes of Amazon’s S3 service but I understand there is a way to automate access for purchased digital downloads and limit downloads.
Sorry for being a noob to this stuff, like I said I appreciate your breakdown a lot. I just don’t want to use a mallet to kill a flea in this scenario, but I do want to be able to achieve all those things.
Most shopping cart plugins can do what you ask. But from your description, it sounds that you want something powerful and yet simpler than most shopping cart products out there. I suggest you try Cart66, even the free lite version of it. It handles both physical and downloadable products very well, and it’s easy to use.
Hi, great review on WordPress eCommerce! I have a site up using Milky Way theme (http://themeforest.net/item/milky-way-full-screen-professional-portfolio/237307), and was hoping you could please recommend how to best add an online store to it.
Is it compatible with GetShopped or Shopp, or should I just make a separate online store and then link a page to that?
Any help would be great!
Kat
Hi Katrina, That’s a nice looking theme!
Shopping cart plugins are generally compatible with any WordPress theme. But some themes work better than others. And some shopping cart plugins have themes that were specifically designed for the plugin. GetShopped is very popular in that area.
Cart66 integrates well with 3rd party, generic themes, such as Milky Way, because you can simply use shortcodes to embed stuff on pages–as explained on Cart66′s homepage.
Thanks much for the info! How about Shopp for this case, though? Just asking as it seems to be your top rated plug-in…
Thanks again!
Shopp doesn’t have many tailored themes–in fact, it only has one. And if you wanna customize the appearance of store pages, you’ll have to read up on Shopp’s own templating system.
That’s why for ease of integration with generic themes, I think Cart66 is great, and for a plugin with many custom themes, GetShopped is excellent!
Awesome, thanks much for the info!
Thanks for that MK, I’m quite proud of our footprint in the theme space – we’re investing heavily in E-Commerce specific themes.
Stay tuned for our Genesis Music theme
I am looking for a wordpress ecommerce plugin that can support an auto currency based to the customers ip address, which they can also reselect and saved it to their profile and set it as preferred currency. Currently it seems non of this plugins here have this feature.
Yeah, I have not seen this feature in any shopping cart plugin.
We helped write a Plugin called Multi Currency Magic but it didn’t to convert the rates automatically – it was a manual jobby. You had to add them manually in the Add Product page when you add the initial Price.
I guess if you have a programmer at hand or are willing to commission the work to somebody then it would be easier to extend that Plugin then start from scratch. Just say’n.
And heck when you consider the costs of pre WordPress E-Commerce it is still a bargain. Thanks to our innovative thought processes (first Plugin bonus points), once upon a time you would have been paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for e-Commerce as opposed to just hundreds of dollars or thousands of dollars.
Sometimes people forget that stuff – its a significant part of the WordPress e-Commerce Plugin history. Just say’n.
Great info above!!
A lot to take in with lots of options..
Jigoshop looks interesting as does WP eCommerce. I have also read a bit about Shopify but I dont think this can be integrated.
Can anyone help narrow things down a bit for me?
I am building a site to sell physical CDs and band merch but also want to add downloadable content at a later stage. I need to be able to categorize products by Artist, Genre, Title and product type. We also need to be able to have discount coupons.
Any heads up would be appreciated. I have used zen cart in the past but I am looking for something a can customize a little better with templates.
Thanks
Ren
Ren, What specific obstacle have you run into while creating your store? GetShopped, Cart66, and Shopp can all meet the requirements you described. They all support downloadable products, physical products, and promotions. Shopp with its faceted category menus and flexible promotions management options may be best for your case.
Of course if you want to sell music and digital files in the long run then GetShopped is definitely the best choice (see our amazon modules and download status modules). Not only are we improving our category listing but we’re about to launch a specific music theme built using the Genesis framework.
Best,
Dan
Thanks guys for the feedback.
I havent run into any specific obstacles there is just such an array out there it a lot to take in and I am looking to change from zen cart which is awesome for my other business but I want to be able to do more current templates.
Dan is Get Shopped easily implemented into custom templates and is it able to satisfy my needs for the separate categories I mentioned?
I probably should stop asking questions and just do it hey! There is just a lot of controversy about all of the e-commerce options.
Cheers
Ren
Aargh.. decisions decisions
Hi Renate. We are involved in a Genesis child theme right now that supports both digital and tangible goods – its mostly based around selling MP3 / Music files, but after I read your comment we decided to make it suitable for both, so if you are ok with MK sharing your email address to me personally then I’ll show you both a demo.
We like Genesis because it is much faster then any of the other theme frameworks out there. We’re also going to get behind the project by writing more and more child themes over time.
Thanks Dan,
for your interest and support! More than happy for MK to share my email and web address with you.
It all sounds very interesting. Will it be just MP3 files or also AAC files for high quality downloads.
There are a couple of templates that I have found on elegant themes that I love so it would be great to be able to incorporate it all.
Hi, I:m building a shop now and need this ecact functionality … can you please guide me to relevant ;link — happy to have my email shared for this purpose .. thanks in advance!
“categorize products by Artist, Genre, Title and product type”
With TheCartPress, In the “Manage taxonomies” menu you can make as many as you need: Artist, Genre, Title, Tags, Editor, etc
And you have widgets to display the customized menus in your sidebars.
Brilliant article!
Pop-Up Shopping Carts
I am looking for a shopping cart solution that lets the buyers add an item to a pop-up shopping cart overlayed on top of the page that they were shopping, offering them a “continue” shopping button, that close the overlayed pop-up, rather than taking them directly to a shopping cart page. See Lands End http://www.landsend.com and Blair to see what I mean.
The payment will be done off-line, so that’s no important. I will use a “Send a request” button instead of Check out or Buy now button
I would be so grateful if anyone outhere could let me know if there is a WordPress shopping cart plugin that I can use to achieve this!
Thanks,
Sammet
Hi Sammet.
I’m pretty sure that some of the Store Front Themes themes, Tokokoo themes, or Splashing Pixel Themes would have this functionality. These theme companies make themes specifically for the WP e-Commerce Plugin available from GetShopped.
http://storefrontthemes.com/
http://tokokoo.com/
http://splashingpixels.com/
http://getshopped.org/
Best,
Dan
Hi Sammet, Most plugins are capable of this, but the issue lies in finding a theme that implements the presentation of the cart as a popup. So, checkout the theme resources that Dan posted.
There’s Market Theme, which has this popup shopping cart feature as default.
FatFreeCart also has this feature, but that lightweight plugin is designed to work with either PayPal or Google Checkout. You can’t accept payments manually.
Could any body share a plugin for Downloadable products? JigoShop is too limited in that perspective . I use the plugin on multi-site and it is not possible to use it for downloadable products on sub-sites
The configuration and location of the downloadable products should be able to access by sub-site owners. Some plugins just have the option to upload the files to “public_html”. So that’s too critical to use on multi-site installations
Thank you !
Hmmm what you want is quite specific which is good I suppose.
I’m not sure if our Amazon S3 Plugin would serve the turn for your digital downloads requirements… but if it does then you could use that
Dan ,
Can you provide me a link to Amazon S3 Plugin
Thank you!
You can find it here:
http://getshopped.org/extend/premium-upgrades/
Actually and funnily enough we’re not even using it ourselves because we’ve always thought of it as something for people with big media files, but at the end of the day its great for anybody that wants to distribute their server load off their webhost and over to Amazon.
It definitely makes sense to use this Plugin imho.
Has anyone used Shopp or Cart66? I’m interested in how Shopp compares to Cart66. Many thanks.
Mike
Mike, This whole page and the links in it are intended to provide a comparison of the plugins. Click on the hyperlinked feature names in the comparison chart above, and you’ll see evaluations of the plugins one-by-one with regard to the clicked feature.
I hope someone with real-world experience chimes in with their opinion, but if that doesn’t happen, and you have a specific question regarding the features of the plugins, let us know.
Hello,
Good post. I love Jigoshop! It would be the one to beat but it does not yet have suitable shipping calculators yet. I would use it in a heartbeat for a client that can live with their simple shipping scheme. I suspect they will roll out shipping modules that calculate actual costs for FedEx, UPS and USPS soon.
I’ve given up on getshopped WP e-Commerce. I bought two gold cart licenses so I could simultaneously develop and deploy. I won’t grind an ax here, so suffice to say I gave it a fair shot. And a few years of my life. My preference, and advice to others, would be to use a different plugin, or even a non wordpress solution.
I’ve decided to try shopp for now, since it has a FedEx shipping calculator module, and several other people have reviewed it favorably.
I second the Jigoshop recommendation wholeheartedly. I’m building a site using this plugin and find it incredibly easy to develop with. Theming is simple (combination of files and hooks), code is clean and easy to read, and back-end is simple to use. It doesn’t do every little thing but it’s MUCH easier to work with than WP eCommerce/GetShopped, IMHO.
The documentation is minimal at this point but you don’t need much if you’re good with PHP. I was also a little peeved they switched their support forums to paid out of the blue but I understand the motivation.
Two awesome things are happening in the WP e-Commerce Plugin camp;
1) New website launch over at GetShopped to make it easier to find our resources and get support – the site is still in phase 1 so please be patient with any quirks you may find
2) Pop open a bottle folks! The WP e-Commerce Plugin is now “the” Multilingual E-Commerce option. We’ve been working with the WPML team for over a year now to make sure that the WP e-Commerce Plugin is the best option for people wanting to sell products to a global no borders world.
Dan, with some respect, The WP e-Commerce has a few people who defend every criticism, but it is one frustrating plug-in, with the worst being any level of support. The developers are busy with their more profitable gaming software, it seems.
I have tried to use The WP e-Commerce several times over the years because the sales rap is good. I tried it again as recently as yesterday. It totally crashed my site. Based on my WP experience, which is considerable, The WP e-Commerce plug in is not recommended.
The WP E-Commerce Plugin is the best Plugin most featured WordPress e-Commerce Plugin and will continue to get better. Full stop.
@John – I have spent 8 years growing Instinct, and making cool things for the WordPress community, what have you done? Let me just put a couple of things straight.
Instinct has two products. We have the WP e-Commerce Plugin, which is available from GetShopped and a Game Creator product that is not even launched – it is not at all profitable, and it does not turn a cent. The Game Creator has 2 full time staff and they are by no means related to the WP e-Commerce Plugin and they do not have any effect on the GetShopped Plugin.
So basically you are blatantly lying to the readers of this site.
If it simply didnt work like you say, then I’m pretty sure, Amir and the guys from WPML would not have spent a year making WP e-Commerce the best multilingual WordPress Shop Plugin on the market.
The WP e-Commerce Plugin team has 3 full time staff in New Zealand, 1 lead developers based in Japan, and 1 paid contractor in Japan. We also have many contributors all around the world contributing to the WP e-Commerce Plugin eco system by means of writing language files or extending WP e-Commerce by creating their own Themes and Plugins.
No other WordPress Plugin has the open source community like the WP e-Commerce Plugin. Whatever we’ve done wrong, we’re committed to fixing our Plugin and putting things right.
WP e-Commerce Plugin is going to be around for ever and we will continue to invest in our eco system and the Plugin core.
John ! you went for away . If you don’t like the plugin , you should have say it in a single line and need not behave rude
A commenting system means a way to express opinion on the original topic or related to it. It doesn’t mean you have the chance to bash any one
Hello, we are building an e-commerce pet food site and we are in shopping cart hell right now; my God man . . . help.
We are looking for a WP shopping cart plug-in that allows our online purchasers to have the option of conveniently establishing an automatic pet food delivery and automatic billing schedule, for instance every 30, 45, 60 days, etc, depending upon the schedule the purchaser establishes with us online. And we know that whatever schedule they establish, they will likely want to change it online at some point.
We also want purchasers to have the ability to create an account and save their contact info and purchasing preferences for easy reordering when they return to the site.
Can someone please prevent us from running with scissors here? We have been told that we need to use some membership or subscription program like Spreedly, which seems like overkill and something else to break. Authorize.Net offers a slick CIM solution that might work nicely with Cart66. Can anyone recommend a solution that works? Many thanks.
Mike
Mike, What you were told about using a membership solution is probably true because those solution focus on recurring and subscription payments. But I don’t see why you have to use a 3rd party such as Spreedly. You can use a WordPress membership plugin.
Look into WPMU DEV Membership and s2Member–both of these plugins support Authorize.Net and have pretty good API in case you needed to hire someone to do a bit of customization.
Thank you!
I would strongly advice against using WPMU Dev for anything. They are a nasty company that spit in the face of originality, WordPress community, and Open Source spirit.
This link shines light on the tip of the iceberg:
http://yoast.com/wpmu-dev-copyright-infringement/
Hmmm, what’s happening here reminds me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTwAoFR4DuM
ShopperPress 6.0 was released and it does so much more than the old version. I currently run several sites with it and love how easy it is to use.
Thanks for the feedback on your experience with ShopperPress, Aunesty!
You’ll love JigoShop when you get to it.