WordPress was launched in 2003, and since then has become one of the most popular and powerful website development tools, globally. Web developers and designers and Business Owners are using WordPress plug-ins to extend the functionality of WordPress Websites to include social media communities, videos, audio players, presentations as well as, E-Commerce (shopping carts).
The top 5 plug-in’s available on the Internet to add E-commerce functionality to a WordPress website are as follows:
WP e-Commerce: This is one of the most popular e-commerce plug-in available for WordPress website. This plug-in is available free of cost. No cost doesn’t put any effect on the functionality and superiority of this plug-in. WP e-Commerce supports all the major payment gateways such as PayPal, Google Checkout, Authorize.net etc. This plug-in comes with lots of free themes and also gives the option to use your own custom theme according to your taste. WP e-Commerce is very easy to install and manage. So this should be your first choice if you are looking for a free and useful e-commerce plug-in.
Jigoshop: This is another very good e-commerce plug-in which is available free of cost. Jigoshop is loaded with some very exciting features such as full control over managing products, shipping rates and inventory. It supports various currencies and gives localization options. The only drawback of this plug-in is that, it just supports a single payment gateway i.e. PayPal. So integration of some more payment gateways will add to its popularity.
Shopp: This is another very useful e-commerce plug-in available on the internet. Shopp comes in a price range of $55-$299 depending upon the set of features availed. Shopp is very flexible and easy to use and can be easily integrated with any WordPress theme. Shopp comes with dashboard widgets to show the sales stats and products availability. Shortcodes allows the user to add the products and plug-in to the desired pages. Some of the main ecommerce features tagged with Shopp are email notification, multi products category inventory, payment history and shipping calculator. It supports some of the best payment gateways such as PayPal, Google checkout, Authorize.net, First Data etc.
eShop: This is another very good plug-in for WordPress ecommerce websites. It comes with some very smart features and integrates some of the most used payment gateways such as PayPal, Authorize.net etc. the biggest advantage of eShop is that it can be added to different posts and pages of a WordPress website. eShop is free of cost and supports features such as stock management, sales data, custom email templates, various shipping methods etc.
WP Secure Downloads: This is another very smart ecommerce plug-in designed to sell and manage digital products. This can be used for selling software, audio files, videos etc. Some of the main features of WP Secure Downloads plug-in are subscription based purchases, in-built shopping cart and automatic theme integration. This plug-in is available in a price range of $37-$179 depending upon the features availed.
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