In the process of documenting the best ways to sell digital products online without having to pay a third party service, we rounded up the most popular free ecommerce plugins for WordPress. Some of these ecommerce plugins are free versions of paid WordPress plugins, but many of them are completely free.
This is not a comprehensive list – there are many others; however, these are the most popular WordPress plugins for ecommerce.
List of free ecommerce plugins for WordPress
- WP e-Commerce – WP e-Commerce is a free WordPress shopping cart plugin that lets customers buy your products, services, and digital downloads online. We make setting up an ecommerce shop easy – and with over 1.3 million downloads, we have unparalleled experience.
- WooCommerce – eCommerce plugin for WordPress – Transform your WordPress website into a thorough-bred online store. Delivering enterprise-level quality and features whilst backed by a name you can trust. I believe this is Woo’s freebie to draw users for their paid products.
- eShop – eShop is an accessible shopping cart plugin for WordPress, packed with various features.
- Jigoshop – WordPress eCommerce – A feature packed ecommerce plugin built upon WordPress core functionality ensuring excellent performance and customizability. Set up shop in minutes with physical and downloadable products or even services. Jigoshop provides you with the features necessary to set up an eCommerce web site lickety-split. With the option to create a multitude of product types and apply detailed attributes customers can easily refine your catalog, ensuring they find what they’re looking for in just a couple of clicks.
- wpStoreCart – Ecommerce Plugin for WordPress – The next generation of WordPress ecommerce. Easy to use & fully customizable, it’s the store front of the future; today. wpStoreCart is a free, open source, and full featured e-commerce platform built atop of WordPress. It is easy to use, lightweight, heavily supported and constantly updated with new features.
- WordPress eCommerce – MarketPress – Wants to be the best free ecommerce plugin available for WordPress – easy to use, beautiful, and powerful. MarketPress is the easiest to use, best designed, and most powerful ecommerce / shopping cart plugin available for WordPress today. Developed from the ground up to make it simple to set up a stylish online shop, MarketPress has all the features you need, including: Multiple payment gateways (PayPal, Authorize.net, Google checkout, 2checkout, Moneybookers and more); Works great with any WordPress theme and looks great with AJAXy goodness; Fully internationalized by the WPML crew; Sell real objects, or digital downloads (with limits and tracking!), with ease; Shipping, coupons, Google Analytics Ecommerce tracking, sale pricing, unlimited product variations, and more…
- WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart – Very easy to use Simple WordPress Paypal Shopping Cart Plugin. Great for selling products online in one click from your WordPress site. WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart allows you to add an ‘Add to Cart’ button on any posts or pages. It also allows you to add/display the shopping cart on any post or page or sidebar easily. The shopping cart shows the user what they currently have in the cart and allows them to remove the items; can be easily integrated with the NextGen Photo Gallery plugin.
- Amazon Affiliate Link Localizer – This plugin automatically changes your Amazon links to point to your visitor’s local Amazon store whilst using your affiliate ID for that country. This plugin not only automatically changes any Amazon link on your site to use your affiliate ID, but it also changes the link to point to the user’s local Amazon store; if your visitor is visiting from the UK they’ll get a link to Amazon.co.uk, if they’re visiting from the US they’ll get a link to the same product on Amazon.com; All you have to do is provide all your affiliate IDs.
It doesn’t matter if the link is in your post, in your template or anywhere else on your page – it’ll be converted automatically. - WordPress Ultra Simple PayPal Shopping Cart – WordPress Ultra Simple PayPal Shopping Cart allows you to add an ‘Add to Cart’ button on any posts or pages. It also allows you to add/display the shopping cart on any post or page or sidebar easily. The shopping cart shows the user what they currently have in the cart and allows them to remove the items. You can also add a form between the cart validation and the PayPal submit if you choose a 3 step process; WP Ultra simple PayPal Cart Plugin, interfaces with the PayPal sandbox to allow for testing. You need to set up a developer test account for the sandbox at PayPal. Simply put you PayPal sandbox merchant email address in the admin panel, and click the ‘test’ radio button.
- Cart66 Lite: Ecommerce Shopping Cart Plugin for Your Online Store – Sell digital products and/or physical products with the Cart66 WordPress ecommerce shopping cart plugin; this is the lite version of a paid product.
- WP Online Store – A WordPress Online Store plugin that integrates the legendary osCommerce eCommerce shopping cart in any WordPress theme in seconds; WP Online Store is a complete eCommerce plugin for WordPress featuring of the legendary osCommerce online store system. It works with almost any theme. osCommerce shopping carts power millions of sites worldwide. It is one of the most popular eCommerce solutions on the internet and has more features than we could ever list here. It also has an easy to use admin area, so set up is a breeze. Having your WordPress site become a fully operational online store has never been easier, it’s as simple as 1-Install, 2-Activate, and 3-Add store to page.
- Ecwid Shopping Cart – Ecwid is a free full-featured shopping cart and an e-commerce solution that can easily be added to any blog or Facebook profile. It offers the performance and flexibility you need, with none of the hassles you don’t. “Ecwid” stands for “ecommerce widgets”. There are eight key advantages to Ecwid:
1. It’s free.
2. It has AJAX everywhere and supports drag-and-drop.
3. It can be easily integrated to any existing site or Facebook profile in minutes.
4. It can be mirrored on many sites at the same time. Add your store to many sites, manage it from one place.
5. Integration with social networks. Run your own store on Facebook, mySpace and many others.
6. Simple to use and maintain. For both store owner and customer.
7. Lightning fast. New-gen technologies make Ecwid much faster than usual shopping carts regardless the hosting service you use.
8. Seamless upgrades. You just wake up one day and enjoy new features. - TheCartPress, eCommerce Shopping Cart – Native eCommerce integration and interaction with WordPress. Flexible, scalable; Ideal for theme constructors; Ideal for merchants, themes constructors and developers. Use it as shopping cart, catalog or framework. Extend the eCommerce functionality with plugins and themes exactly in same way that you do with WordPress.
- Smart Manager for WP e-Commerce – Smart Manager is a unique, revolutionary tool that gives you the power to efficiently manage products, product variations, customers and orders using the popular WordPress e-Commerce plugin from GetShopped / Instinct.
As a business owner, your time is better spent on marketing and customer service than on store administration. Unfortunately store administration with WordPress e-Commerce can take significant time. Day after day. Smart Manager will boost your productivity 10x in managing products, customers and orders. You can browse, search, and manage multiple products, customers or orders using a familiar, single page, spreadsheet-like interface.
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
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