WordPress eCommerce » wordpress shopping cart http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com Wordpress eCommerce Plugins Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:42:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 5 Ecommerce Shopping Cart Solutions For Your WordPress Site http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/5-ecommerce-shopping-cart-solutions-for-your-wordpress-site-818 http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/5-ecommerce-shopping-cart-solutions-for-your-wordpress-site-818#comments Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:37:33 +0000 admin http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/?p=818

To build a successful e-commerce WordPress blog and sell product, a good shopping cart plugin is necessary. Based on what type of product you want to sell, different shopping cart plugins might suit your needs. After a research I found some ecommerce shopping cart solutions to help you decide what to use and you will also have an idea of how different WordPress shopping cart plugins work.

1. WP eStore

A fully featured and user-friendly WordPress shopping cart plugin to sell any digital or non-digital product.

Main Features:

  • It provides the security for your product.
  • You can integrate it with Nextgen Gallery plugin.
  • Pre-integration with WP eMember and WP Affiliate Platform.
  • It allows your customer to download digital product securely.
  • Integration with Aweber, Mailchimp, GetResponse.
  • Easy Checkout system.
  • Multiple payment gateways.
  • It allows you to have multi site license.

i) WP eStore Installation

ii) WP eStore Settings Configuration

iii) How to Configure a Product

iv) How to Display a Product on a Post or Page

WP eStore shopping cart plugin can be found here.

2. ShopperPress

It is an easy to use shopping cart theme which allows you to sell any type of product online.

  • It allows you to analyze and track sales.
  • A complete web-based control panel.
  • It allows you to have 20+ built in payment gateways.
  • It provides you online security.
  • Shipping and Tax are easily customizable.

ShopperPress can be found here.

3. Market Theme

It is one kind of shopping cart based theme which allows you to turn your site in to a digital store.

Main Feature:

  • It allows you to have a nice product display.
  • It is compatible with WordPress and WordPress MU
  • It allows you to sell affiliate products.
  • It allows multiple payment methods.
  • It allows you to have multiple attributes for different products.
  • Smart search option.
  • Eligible for multiple usage.

Market theme can be found here.

4. WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin

This is a shopping cart plugin developed by tribulant.

Main Features:

  • Easy to use shopping cart interface.
  • It allows you to set up multiple products in to multiple categories.
  • You can add images to showcase your products.
  • Your customer can any download digital product securely.
  • It allows multiple payment methods.

You can get the WordPress shopping cart plugin here.

5. PHPurchase

PHPurchase is a simple WordPress shopping cart plugin for selling products online.

Main Features:

  • It allows you to set up a complete store on your website.
  • It is PCI Compliant.
  • It automatically keeps track  of your order.
  • It allows you to offer a discount.
  • Shipping option is provided.
  • It allows you to change the look of your blog.
  • You can also customize the checkout process with this.
  • Auto integration with multiple payment gateways.

Here is the official demo video showing an overview of PHPurchase shopping cart plugin-

You can get the PHPurchase shopping cart plugin here.

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]]> http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/5-ecommerce-shopping-cart-solutions-for-your-wordpress-site-818/feed 1 How to Turn Your WordPress Site into a Digital Photo Store and Sell Photos Securely http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/how-to-turn-your-wordpress-site-into-a-digital-photo-store-and-sell-photos-securely-654 http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/how-to-turn-your-wordpress-site-into-a-digital-photo-store-and-sell-photos-securely-654#comments Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:59:24 +0000 admin http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/?p=654

Do you want to turn your wordpress site into a digital photo store so that anyone can purchase photo?Do you want to sell photo securely with an automatic system? In this video tutorial I am going to show you the easy steps to do it.

First, install the nextgen gallery plugin and WP eStore plugin on your wordpress site.

Now download the WP eStore Template File , unzip it and upload it to the ‘view’ folder of the NextGen gallery plugin directory.

After that you need to look at some basic settings of WP eStore plugin. The default settings are fine but you may want to customize some settings. I am showing you some basic settings to get you started with this.

Once you customize the WP eStore settings, you can go through the following four steps,

1. Adding a New Gallery

Simply create a new gallery and upload images(which you want to show the visitors as thumbnail, not the actual images) to that gallery. Once you are done, upload the actual images (which you want to deliver to your customers after they purchase) of those thumbnail (e.g. nature1.jpg, nature2.jpg) to any directory of you website ( I have not shown this in the video tutorial though).

2. Add Products to WP eStore

After you upload images to the gallery, add those images as products to WP eStore. Note that while adding images as products, you will have to specify the URL of the actual image in the “Digital Product URL” section( not the thumbnail image URL) even though I put the thumbnail image URL in “Digital Product URL” section as an example in this video tutorial. This way you can prevent people from stealing your actual photos. Suppose, your actual image is 800 x 600 pixels and its thumbnail version is 200 x 150 pixels. when anyone visits your photo product page, they might be able to steal the “thumbnail image” but not the actual one as only WP eStore plugin knows the specific URL of that actual image.

3. Creating a “Add to Cart” Button

In this step you need to create a “Add to Cart” button for the specific images.

4. Showing the Content of the Gallery on a Product Page

The last step is to show the content ( e.g. images) of the created gallery on a product page where your visitor will be able to purchase from. Once anyone purchases any image from your “Product” page seeing its thumbnail version, WP eStore plugin will send an email containing the encrypted download link of the actual image to that customer after the payment processing is done.

Once you are done with setting up all of them, you will be able to sell photos from your site.

The two plugins can be found here:

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Some of the features of this include:

1. It is a revolutionary theme.

2. It transforms your site into a fully featured ecommerce store.

3. It gives you a complete backend product administration.

market-shopping-cart-theme

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ShopperPress

Some of the features of this include:

1. It is kind of a wordpress shopping cart plugin.

2. It allows you to sell any products including services and digital downloads.

3. It turns your site into a fully featured selling machine.

shopperpress-shopping-cart-theme

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]]> http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/2-wordpress-shopping-cart-themes-133/feed 3 3 Premium WordPress Shopping cart Plugins http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/premium-wordpress-e-commerce-shopping-cart-plugin-112 http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/premium-wordpress-e-commerce-shopping-cart-plugin-112#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:06:31 +0000 admin http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/?p=112 1. WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin

Some of the main features of this plugin include-

1. It gives you the functionality of online shopping

2. You can give images to your products to let the customers know what they are purchasing.

3. Customers can download digital products.

WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin

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2. Gold Cart Shop

This plugin gives you more  functionality to your wordpress site for online shopping.

Gold-Cart-Shop

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3. WordPress eStore Plugin

This plugin helps you sell digital products online from your wordpress site giving you the functionality of complete automation.

WordPress-eStore-Plugin

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Some of The main features of this plugin include-

1. Integration with Google Checkout, Paypal etc

2. It gives your customer a good experience of shopping online

wordpress-ecommerce-plugin

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WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart

It is an easy to use free wp shopping cart plugin. Some of the main features of this plugin include-

1. It creates an ‘add to cart’ button on your post or page.

2. You can show the shopping cart on any page or sidebar.

3. User can see what they have in the cart and they can remove it at any time.

4. Easy integration with NextGen photo gallery plugin.

wordpress-shopping-cart-plugin

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MiniCart WordPress Plugin

Some of the main features of this plugin include-

1. It gives you a nice experience of mini-shopping cart.

2. Adding the item to the cart and display up to one item in the cart.

Minicart-wordpress-plugin

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]]> http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/free-wordpress-e-commerceshopping-cart-plugin-102/feed 10 WordPress Shop Demo Using NextGen Gallery and WP Shopping Cart http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/wordpress-shop-using-nextgen-gallery-and-wp-shopping-cart-7 http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/wordpress-shop-using-nextgen-gallery-and-wp-shopping-cart-7#comments Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:52:09 +0000 admin http://wordpress-ecommerce.com/?p=7 This is a demo page showing how the WordPress Paypal shopping cart plugin is used in conjunction with the NextGen Gallery to create an online store for digital photos. Hit the ‘Add to Cart’ button to see how the shopping cart looks on the sidebar. When you add an item to the cart the shopping cart will be shown below this line.

Please note that the secure delivery of the digital images after purchase is only available in the WordPress eStore Plugin and to know how to do this please watch the video tutorial on How to Turn Your WordPress Site into a Digital Photo Store and Sell Photos Securely

How to Integrate NextGen Gallery and WordPress Paypal Shopping Cart Plugins

What Plugins do you need?

You will need the WordPress Paypal shopping cart v1.6 or above and NextGen Gallary Plugins. This guide assumes that you have used NextGen Gallery Plugin and know how to use it. If you don’t know how to use NextGen Gallery then I suggest you read the ‘Readme.txt’ file that comes with the NexGen Gallery plugin or try the NextGen Gallery forum

What NextGen Gallery Modification is needed?

We are going to use a custom template file for the NextGen gallery to display the shop:

  1. Download the WP eStore template file for NextGen Gallery from here.
  2. Unzip and upload the ‘gallery-wp-eStore.php’ file to the ‘view’ folder of the NextGen gallery plugin directory (nextgen-gallery/view/gallery-wp-eStore.php).

Displaying the Gallery

Use the following tag to display the Gallery in a post or page.

nextgen-gallery-template-tag

Given the gallery id is 1. Using the ‘template=wp-eStore’ option will show captions underneath each thumbnail image where you can display the ‘Add to Cart’ button and a little bit of other details/description of the image.

Adding the ‘Add to Cart’ Buttons below the Image Thumbnails

1. Go to ‘Manage Gallery’ from the NextGen Gallery settings menu and choose the Gallery that you want to turn into a shop. 2. Now in the ‘Alt & Title Text / Description’ field of every image enter the Image details (name, price etc) and the trigger text for the ‘Add to Cart’ button of that image. It should look similar to the following example:

nextgen_wp_paypal_cart_integration_desc_field

“<br />” is a HTML code to insert a line break so the name, price and the button doesn’t come in one line.

3. Do the same for all the images in the gallery.

4. Save the Changes to the Gallery and Now your Gallery will look similar to the demo shown at the start of this Page.

What Happens When You Upgrade the NextGen Gallery Plugin?

After you upgrade the NextGen Gallery, you need to put the WP eStore Template file back in the ‘view’ directory (nextgen-gallery/view) and all done.

This is because, when upgrading, WordPress completely deletes the folder of the plugin that is being upgraded then downloads the new version. So the previously uploaded WP eStore template file gets deleted in the process.

Visit the WordPress Shopping Cart plugin page to download the plugin or to leave comment.

You can also visit the post on How to Turn Your WordPress Site into a Digital Photo Store and Sell Photos Securely for more information.

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