Comments on: WordPress and eCommerce: Time to Get Serious http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/08/10/wordpress-and-ecommerce-time-to-get-serious/ News, plugins and themes for blogging applications Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:46:16 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Andre http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/08/10/wordpress-and-ecommerce-time-to-get-serious/comment-page-1/#comment-224059 Andre Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:38:33 +0000 http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/08/10/wordpress-and-ecommerce-time-to-get-serious/#comment-224059 We recently switched our website from Shopp to PHPurchase. PHPurchase was much less expensive and since we only sell a few different products we didn’t need all the fancy grid layout features and so forth. We just wanted to build the pages the way we wanted and then sell our headphones. Plus PHPurchase is backed by a nice bunch of developers at PHPoet which made me feel comfortable in case I needed some support. So if you are looking around, you may want to consider checking out http://www.phpurchase.com We recently switched our website from Shopp to PHPurchase. PHPurchase was much less expensive and since we only sell a few different products we didn’t need all the fancy grid layout features and so forth. We just wanted to build the pages the way we wanted and then sell our headphones. Plus PHPurchase is backed by a nice bunch of developers at PHPoet which made me feel comfortable in case I needed some support. So if you are looking around, you may want to consider checking out http://www.phpurchase.com

]]> By: stylelead http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/08/10/wordpress-and-ecommerce-time-to-get-serious/comment-page-1/#comment-222911 stylelead Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:44:10 +0000 http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/08/10/wordpress-and-ecommerce-time-to-get-serious/#comment-222911 I have read the some blogs(wordpress) with ecommerce,but all of it is demo,why can find a real e-commerce shop to study. I have read the some blogs(wordpress) with ecommerce,but all of it is demo,why can find a real e-commerce shop to study.

]]> By: Dan Milward http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/08/10/wordpress-and-ecommerce-time-to-get-serious/comment-page-1/#comment-222705 Dan Milward Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:00:12 +0000 http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/08/10/wordpress-and-ecommerce-time-to-get-serious/#comment-222705 *** Update *** WP e-Commerce 3.7.1 has been released now and we're just a few days away from launching WP e-Commerce 3.7.2 which has a nice range of new features - for instance: * A glorious new e-commerce template engine (finally decent e-commerce for WordPress theme designers) * We’ve included Paypal Payments Pro (its free too!!) * A nice and new improved user interface (including IE some fixes) * Thumbnail image crop for product images (Firefox only sorry) * Multiple currency support (right there in the edit product field) * Manual override of tax on a per product basis (under products price and stock) * Improved Shipping Options * Theme files have been moved to a safe place (check out presentation settings) * A new Quarterly reports Screen Option for the WP Dashboard (yyyy-mm-dd) * Sales Log page has a field for Tracking ID (this functionality will be expanded upon) * Single Product shortcodes * Product Reviews / Comments via IntenseDebate.com integration * All in One SEO Plugin integration * Product Import (Beta) Read more on our blog: www.instinct.co.nz/blog *** Update ***

WP e-Commerce 3.7.1 has been released now and we’re just a few days away from launching WP e-Commerce 3.7.2 which has a nice range of new features – for instance:

* A glorious new e-commerce template engine (finally decent e-commerce for WordPress theme designers)
* We’ve included Paypal Payments Pro (its free too!!)
* A nice and new improved user interface (including IE some fixes)
* Thumbnail image crop for product images (Firefox only sorry)
* Multiple currency support (right there in the edit product field)
* Manual override of tax on a per product basis (under products price and stock)
* Improved Shipping Options
* Theme files have been moved to a safe place (check out presentation settings)
* A new Quarterly reports Screen Option for the WP Dashboard (yyyy-mm-dd)
* Sales Log page has a field for Tracking ID (this functionality will be expanded upon)
* Single Product shortcodes
* Product Reviews / Comments via IntenseDebate.com integration
* All in One SEO Plugin integration
* Product Import (Beta)

Read more on our blog: http://www.instinct.co.nz/blog

]]> By: nooraza http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/08/10/wordpress-and-ecommerce-time-to-get-serious/comment-page-1/#comment-220414 nooraza Thu, 07 May 2009 03:12:23 +0000 http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/08/10/wordpress-and-ecommerce-time-to-get-serious/#comment-220414 I visited the shopify website. thank you for the info... but if you can set up ecommerce in wordpress for free why should we pay? I visited the shopify website. thank you for the info… but if you can set up ecommerce in wordpress for free why should we pay?

]]> By: Dawn Sinclair http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/08/10/wordpress-and-ecommerce-time-to-get-serious/comment-page-1/#comment-220401 Dawn Sinclair Tue, 05 May 2009 21:39:06 +0000 http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/08/10/wordpress-and-ecommerce-time-to-get-serious/#comment-220401 I should add that I've also been keeping an eye out on the Shopp project.. I've yet to try and test this one, but it looks promising.. I should add that I’ve also been keeping an eye out on the Shopp project.. I’ve yet to try and test this one, but it looks promising..

]]> By: Dawn Sinclair http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/08/10/wordpress-and-ecommerce-time-to-get-serious/comment-page-1/#comment-220400 Dawn Sinclair Tue, 05 May 2009 21:37:46 +0000 http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/08/10/wordpress-and-ecommerce-time-to-get-serious/#comment-220400 I wanted to like WP e-commerce.. I really did.. I should have taken the hint when after installing the plugin I go to Ecommerce>Settings>Shipping and select the USPS module and saw the message "Known issue: USPS doesnt support shipping inside the US, cutomer zipcode needed, which we dont have before checkout" Not to be discouraged I decided to use table rates instead. Only there's one small hitch.. No way to support a separate rate table for international customers or even a way to add an additional handling fee for international customers. In the end I mainly ended up ditching WP e-commerce because the shipping functions did not allow me any options to work with both domestic and international customers. Had there been a working fully functional USPS option, it would have solved my international shipping issues. I've also used eShop. This plugin allows you to easily create products using WordPress Pages. While the setup of shop categories and products requires a little more "manual" work than WP e-commerce, I was able to ease the "manual" work by making use of the "Duplicate Post" plugin Enrico Battocchi. The shipping options in eShop are limited to variations of different table shipping options. There are no tax options in eShop, but I worked around that by configuring the PayPal account to collect taxes during the PayPal payment process, and this worked just fine. (I made sure to inform customers that if they resided in X state, the tax would be added) Overall I had less issues with plugin incompatibilities using eShop than I did with WP e-commerce.. (I found that WP e-commerce had to be activated BEFORE all of my other plugins or some of the tables it needed would not be created or populated during the install) IMO however, neither of these solutions is ideal for stores with more than 10-20 products. I think I will opt to NOT build anymore e-commerce sites using WordPress plugins (unless the client has 10 or less products to offer), but I will continue to keep an eye on these plugins. I hope to see some better shipping and tax options offered in future releases for both of these plugins as I think they are the closest to fully functioning e-commerce solutions available for WordPress. I wanted to like WP e-commerce.. I really did.. I should have taken the hint when after installing the plugin I go to Ecommerce>Settings>Shipping and select the USPS module and saw the message “Known issue: USPS doesnt support shipping inside the US, cutomer zipcode needed, which we dont have before checkout”

Not to be discouraged I decided to use table rates instead. Only there’s one small hitch.. No way to support a separate rate table for international customers or even a way to add an additional handling fee for international customers.

In the end I mainly ended up ditching WP e-commerce because the shipping functions did not allow me any options to work with both domestic and international customers. Had there been a working fully functional USPS option, it would have solved my international shipping issues.

I’ve also used eShop. This plugin allows you to easily create products using WordPress Pages. While the setup of shop categories and products requires a little more “manual” work than WP e-commerce, I was able to ease the “manual” work by making use of the “Duplicate Post” plugin Enrico Battocchi.

The shipping options in eShop are limited to variations of different table shipping options. There are no tax options in eShop, but I worked around that by configuring the PayPal account to collect taxes during the PayPal payment process, and this worked just fine. (I made sure to inform customers that if they resided in X state, the tax would be added) Overall I had less issues with plugin incompatibilities using eShop than I did with WP e-commerce.. (I found that WP e-commerce had to be activated BEFORE all of my other plugins or some of the tables it needed would not be created or populated during the install)

IMO however, neither of these solutions is ideal for stores with more than 10-20 products. I think I will opt to NOT build anymore e-commerce sites using WordPress plugins (unless the client has 10 or less products to offer), but I will continue to keep an eye on these plugins. I hope to see some better shipping and tax options offered in future releases for both of these plugins as I think they are the closest to fully functioning e-commerce solutions available for WordPress.

]]> By: Roger Sanjay http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/08/10/wordpress-and-ecommerce-time-to-get-serious/comment-page-1/#comment-220002 Roger Sanjay Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:45:30 +0000 http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/08/10/wordpress-and-ecommerce-time-to-get-serious/#comment-220002 try this too http://www.sitemile.com/storepress.php it is very easy to install and has lots of features try this too http://www.sitemile.com/storepress.php
it is very easy to install and has lots of features

]]> By: ivan http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/08/10/wordpress-and-ecommerce-time-to-get-serious/comment-page-1/#comment-219200 ivan Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:16:56 +0000 http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/08/10/wordpress-and-ecommerce-time-to-get-serious/#comment-219200 i think eshop, a plugin for wordpress is quite powerful for ecommerce and they are (currently) total open source we created a theme using eshop on our website, and its quite satisfying features. i think eshop, a plugin for wordpress is quite powerful for ecommerce and they are (currently) total open source

we created a theme using eshop on our website, and its quite satisfying features.

]]> By: Shopping cart http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/08/10/wordpress-and-ecommerce-time-to-get-serious/comment-page-1/#comment-217241 Shopping cart Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:56:59 +0000 http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/08/10/wordpress-and-ecommerce-time-to-get-serious/#comment-217241 Wordpress is getting up to standard slowly. Some time ago i thought that wordpress is going under but they are still alive! Wordpress is getting up to standard slowly. Some time ago i thought that wordpress is going under but they are still alive!

]]> By: Karaoke Blog http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/08/10/wordpress-and-ecommerce-time-to-get-serious/comment-page-1/#comment-217051 Karaoke Blog Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:25:44 +0000 http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/08/10/wordpress-and-ecommerce-time-to-get-serious/#comment-217051 Thanks bro..... Thanks bro…..

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