The WP e-Commerce Plugin remains the most popular e-Commerce plugin for WordPress for the past 5 years, with over 2 million downloads. If you’re looking for the most robust, fully functioning shopping cart plugin on the market, install the free WP e-Commerce plugin now. The WP e-Commerce Plugin has been proven over and over to be the most powerful, mature and industry relevant WordPress e-Commerce Plugin in the world.
Right out of the box you can use the WP e-Commerce Plugin to make a beautiful online shop, the following industry relevant features have been designed to suit the majority of users needs – if you can’t find the feature you want listed here the be sure to head over to the WP e-Commerce Community made Plugins and Themes page or the Premium Plugin Marketplace because it is entirely possible that what you want already exists.
WordPress Integration
- Easy to install WordPress Plugin
- Works with any standards compliant WordPress theme
- It plays well with other WordPress Plugins
- Supports regular WordPress widgets (as well as a few snazzy ones of our own)
- Utilizes shortcodes and template tags (just like WordPress)
- Works out-of-the-box with WordPress Multisite (using sub domains)
Marketing
- Flexible coupon/discount pricing rules
- Product specific sales
- Quantity discounts
- Free shipping options
- Multi-tier pricing for quantity discounts.
- Search Engine Friendly URLs
- New Products widget
- Cross-sells on product pages (in 3.8 this is now available as a Plugin)
- Google Site Map
- Uses the popular “Share This” button for easily promoting your products on popular social networking sites
- Integrates with Facebook Marketplace (Facebook Marketplace API has closed – we’re working on it)
- Integrates with Google Base
- Integrates with Campaign Monitor for advanced email marketing
- Integrates with Intense Debate for shared comments
- Mail Chimp integration coming soon
Search Engine Friendly
- 100% Search Engine Friendly
- Meta-information for products and categories
- RSS feeds for products and categories
- Integrates with Google (XML site maps and Google Merchant Centre)
- Integrates with the WordPress SEO Plugin, and the All in One SEO plugin for WordPress which both offer Google Analytics
International Support
- Multilingual – the first e-Commerce Plugin to fully integrate with GlotPress & WPML
- Support for multiple currencies
- Ability to target specific countries
Shipping
- Integrates with UPS, USPS, Australia Post and Shipwire for real-time shipping rates
- Flexible built-in shipping rate calculators
- Domestic and global shipping rates
- Flat rate shipping
- Table rate shipping
- Weight rate shipping
Payment Options
We do the best we can to ensure that the gateways that ship with the WP e-Commerce Plugin are always up to date and working – if you use one of the following gateways and it does not work for you then let us know – sometimes the gateway will change things on us without notice. We will always act upon broken gateway information as quickly as possible.
- Manual Payment (checks/money orders) (included)
- PayPal Payments Standard (included)
- PayPal Payments Pro (included)
- PayPal Express Checkout (included)
- Chronopay (included)
- PayPal Payflow Pro (available with Gold Cart)
- Authorize.net (available with Gold Cart)
- FirstData/LinkPoint (available with Gold Cart)
- eWay Payment (available with Gold Cart)
- iDEAL (available with Gold Cart)
- BluePay (available with Gold Cart)
- DPS (available with Gold Cart)
- Paystation (available with Gold Cart)
- SagePay (available with Gold Cart)
- If you still aren’t happy, we provide you with the necessary info to write your payment gateway
Checkout
- One-Page Checkout
- SSL security support for orders on both front-end and back-end
- Checkout without account/Guest Checkout
- Shopping Cart with tax and shipping estimates
- Option to create account at beginning of checkout
- Fully customizable checkout page
Managing Orders
- Admin dashboard for sales overview
- Export orders and customers into CSV formats
- Order history with labels for order processing status
- Email notifications of orders
- Print invoices and packing slips
Catalog Management
- Single-page product data entry
- Ability to duplicate products
- Quickly edit your products from the store front (saving you heaps of time)
- Smart Groups allow you to organize your products with hierarchical categories, as well as by brand.
- Batch import/export of catalog
- Google Base integration
- Product variation management
- Create attributes on the fly
- Downloadable/Digital Products
- Support for donations
- Customer Personalized Products
- Media Manager with automatic image resizing
- Handles multiple product images with easy drag-and-drop sorting
- Support for Special Prices
- Tax rates per location
- Basic inventory control
Catalog Browsing
- Live product search – mmm just like apple.com (available with Gold Cart)
- Cross-sells
- Product listing in list format
- Product listing in grid format (available with Gold Cart)
- Breadcrumbs
- Product Image Zoom-in Capability
- Stock Availability
- Multiple Images Per Product (activated with Gold Cart)
- Product comments
- Filter by Product Tags
- New Products widget
- Features Products widget
- Live updating shopping cart (put it wherever you want)
100% Customizable
- A designers dream – use your own HTML & CSS and have complete control over the look and feel of your site
- Easy to modify template system
Amazing Support
- Thorough online documentation
- Lots of video tutorials
- Guaranteed speedy response through our Premium Forums
- Access to support from thousands of other users through our free community forums