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

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.

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

I thought I better give you a quick update on our movements. We are gearing up to release the next version of WP e-Commerce. The biggest improvements are:

- Sexy User Interface (for WP 2.7)
- Optimized Code (better API plus more hooks)
- Start of new Template Engine
- A few more necessary features

Will post back soon with all the details.

i particularly enjoyed everyone’s comments. thanks again.

It’s not quite Shopify for WordPress, but it is called Shopp. (Shop-(p)lugin)

The website has more details, so if you’re looking for something besides what’s already out there, take a look at http://shopplugin.net

It’s done incredibly well in the search engines – if anyone is interested how I did it, just shoot me an email.

Currently I’m looking for potential beta testers so I can get some useful feedback. I’ve been designing it to be both easy to setup & use, but still be flexible for fully customizing. Anyways, if you’d like details, I’ve posted an official announcement on my blog: http://insites.ingenesis.net/2008/04/07/wordpress-ecommerce/

I can’t wait to release it, but I also want to make sure it’s ready for primetime.

For one thing, it doesn’t appear to confirm expiration date against the card’s actual expiration – it just checks to see if the expiration date entered by the user is not in the past, and passes the transaction through if that simple test is passed. Seems like a (major) security issue to me.

I’ve tried posting on the incredibly slow Instinct forums for weeks now and though my posts are getting read, they aren’t receiving any responses. Maybe everyone’s hands are full with the next release?

So, for the poster above worried about losing support should the company close in 6 months…looks like things would actually be status quo…

Take a peek at the site: http://www.susiekenison.com – It’s custom hand made metal jewelry with very artistic design.

If anyone has any questions you can get a hold of me through the contact page on my website – http:/www.whitefrog.org/

In fact its licence is extremely unclear and it would be risky to invest too much into it without it being made clear. They could close it completely in 6 months as has been done before and where would people stand? Totally unsupported.

Why is it not GPL? Not being GPL is worse then asking for money in my mind.

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