Top contenders for a Wordpress e-commerce site
During my research of Wordpress e-commerce plugins and themes I noted some posts from the Thesis theme's DIYForums.
Some people have said that WP eStore works well in Thesis.
Post by Rickandersonaia"There are a lot of questions and comments on the support forum about shopping cart plugins and etc, but none that seemed to really get something going easily without some pretty involved custom code."
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Once you've committed yourself to a system it can be strong disincentive to change to something that works better.
With WordPress eStore most of your data entry isn't in a proprietary format. Most of it is plain old WordPress which means you can easily migrate to another solution when you need to.
FWIW, I don't recommend proprietary systems if I can help it. Especially if there is any chance that their pricing structure might move.
Now that makes me sound like a sales person for WP eStore. I'm not, I'm just a customer. However, my clients have found the plugin easy to use and I recommend it with the same enthusiasm I recommend Thesis.
So, I've been using WordPress eStore for quite some time and I haven't had any trouble with it. I haven't needed any support for this plugin (although I have for their membership plugin) and it works flawlessly with WordPress 2.8 - 3.0b1 and Thesis 1.6 - 1.7 (including any combination of those).
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I've been using WP eStore with Thesis for quite a while now and it works flawlessly.
Here's what it's good for - Secure electronic downloads, simple shipping choices, Aweber integration. I highly recommend it for stores with a small selection. If you have hundreds of products or complex shipping requirements then I'd look for something else.
The thing I like about it i,s that while it has data base entries for products, it uses standard posts or pages for detailed product descriptions. This means that down the road if you want to ditch it and try something else the data isn't in a proprietary format.
It costs $35 but is very easy to use.
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This user mentions that someone else had mentioned
FoxyCart.
Advanced carts are a pain in general - good out of the box some of them, but whew, major changes can be tough with say, Miva or OSCommerce or Magento. So it's not necessarily a WP or Thesis issue, I don't like any, or at least most, of the carts online for static or non-CMS sites, either, not in terms of rapid deployment with heavy visual and functional customizations.
permalinkWhen I get my shop up and running, I'm going to try Mals e-commerce. It's free with a premium option. I first saw it on nutandbee.com which is a WordPress site, so I assume it will work with mine. It's certainly not for a huge mega-store, but I'm hoping it will work for my simple tee shirts and flair page.
If anyone is already using Mal's I'd love to know if it's working.
permalink(Mal's e-commerce is a shopping cart run on a third-party site and it looks like the people running nutandbee.com added their products manually in HTML.)
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Actually I chose the SHOPP plugin. I had read reviews on the other and was weary of lack of support. The website is not fully up live yet, but in the next 2 to 3 weeks it will be. So far so good though. There will be a new version of the plugin here in the next week or so that is to fix some bugs. Good support team too.
permalinkWP-ecommerce works like a charm with Thesis.
permalinkHere's an example of WP e-Commerce running on a WordPress website using the Thesis theme.
Get Kit - it's a website selling survival kits online in New Zealand.
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This site is not powered by Thesis, but uses the WP E-commerce plugin
Infrared Security Cameras | Longse ElectronicsA primer on E-commerce and shopping cart features
Ten Tips to Help Choose an E-Commerce SolutionZen Cart!, The Art of E-commerceAn example of Wordpress "integrated" into Zen Cart's system. Not a pretty picture.
Looks like a pretty limited integration to me.
