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Initially WordPress was just a blogging platform, but now it’s being used as a robust solution for building eCommerce sites. The flexibility and  powerful plug-in architecture of WordPress made it possible for developers to transform an ordinary blogging platform into a full-fledged E-commerce platform.

Here are some of the most popular and most used E-commerce Plugins:

1) WooCommerce

WooCommerce is a powerful, extendable eCommerce plugin that helps you sell anything. Beautifully.

WooCommerce is a free eCommerce plugin that allows you to sell online. Built to integrate seamlessly with WordPress, WooCommerce is the world’s favorite eCommerce solution that gives both store owners and developers complete control.

With WooCommerce, you can sell both physical and digital goods in all shapes and sizes, offer product variations, multiple configurations, and instant downloads to shoppers, and even sell affiliate goods from online marketplaces.

WooCommerce comes bundled with the ability to accept major credit cards, PayPal, BACS (bank transfers), and cash on delivery (COD). Need additional options? More than 140 region-specific gateways integrate with WooCommerce, including popular choices like Stripe, Authorize.Net, and Amazon Payments.

WooCommerce gives you complete control of your store, from taxes to stock levels to customer accounts.

WooCommerce is a complete developer friendly plugin, which allows developers to modify the code according to their needs.

Key Feature:

1. Sell anything, anywhere
2. Ship wherever you like
3. Extensive payment options
4. You control it all — forever
5. Define your style with Storefront
6. Pre Built page

You can buy add-on plugins to WooCommerce on Themeforest/Envato.

2) Easy Digital Downloads

Easy Digital Downloads(EDD) provides the easiest way to sell digital products online with WordPress.

EDD is a complete package to sell your digital and other non-physical products online using WordPress Platform. Easy Digital Downloads makes selling digital simple and complete by providing just the features you need.

While Easy Digital Downloads’ primary focus is the distribution of digital downloads, feedback from users and selfless developers from around the world drive the open-source project to many facets of eCommerce.

It is a lightweight, feature-rich and simple to setup eCommerce solution for selling digital downloads via WordPress at no cost.

Key Features:   

1. Cart system to purchase multiple digital products at once.
2. Support Promotional or Coupon codes
3. Many payment gateways. PayPal, Amazon, Test Payments are included by default with Stripe, PayPal Pro, PayPal Express, and others available as extensions
4. Complete payment history and User purchase history and ability to re-download files
5. Multiple files per downloadable product
6. Variable prices for multiple price options per product
7. Customizable purchase receipts
8. Data export options for CSV and PDF
9. Add functionality with many extensions
10. Developer friendly with dozens of actions and filters.

You can buy add-on plugins to EDD on Themeforest/Envato.

3) WP eCommerce

WP eCommerce is a free, powerful plugin that empowers you to sell anything online, quickly and easily

Though not as popular as WooCommerce, WP eCommerce Plugin is everything you need to sell anywhere. Convert visitors into customers with a beautiful online store and a secure shopping cart.

Whether you’re hoping to sell digital downloads, physical inventory, or subscriptions and memberships – with WP eCommerce, you can set up a basic store in a day or two.

WP eCommerce also supports some of the premium Add-Ons like, Gold Cart, Members & Subscriptions, Fedex Shipping, WP eCommerce Tickets etc.

Key Features:

1. Easily add products to your catalog
2. Monitor sales and reporting
3. Configure taxes and shipping
4. Industry-leading payment gateways

You can buy add-on plugins to WP commerce on Themeforest/Envato.

4) JigoShop

A feature-packed eCommerce plugin built upon WordPress core functionality ensuring excellent performance and customizability.

JigoSoft is a fully established e-commerce platform that provides broad functionality, easy migration  and professional support packages. Jigoshop is optimized for search engines, PCI DSS compliant and has a good following on the web.

Fully Functional and Easy to use features translates from visitors to customers. Making the sales process as simple and streamlined as possible. Using JogoSoft plugin you can easily manage your simple, digital and variable products in with their intuitive UI. You can also assign Store Managers to handle the day to day management of your store.

JigoSoft also offers advanced SEO Tools.

You can use it for physical and downloadable products.

Extensive development and technical documentation combined with reliable and secure base make Jigoshop a suitable candidate for many ecommerce merchants.

Key Features:

1. Simple Management
2. Powerful SEO
3. Developer Friendly

You can buy add-on plugins to Jigo Shop on Themeforest/Envato.

5) Ecwid

Enable WordPress E-commerce – Powerful, easy to use ecommerce shopping cart. Bank level PCI DSS Level 1 security. iPhone & Android apps. Free and paid plans available.

Ecwid Ecommerce Shopping Cart is a secure , powerful and easy-to-use online store solution that gives you a fully-functioned shop on your WordPress website. It has features like real-time shipping integration and support of 45 languages.

This plugin allows you to add your online store to Facebook and sell to millions of Facebook users all over the world without any help of extra Add-Ons. Ecwid will automatically synchronize your products, customers, orders and inventory between your WordPress and Facebook storefronts.

With the Ecwid Shopping Cart, your online store data is fully hosted on our secure servers. You can also mirror the system onto various other sites if you plan on selling elsewhere online. Manage all of these sites from one place instead of switching between multiple dashboards.

Ecwid’s WordPress shopping cart is designed to display optimally on both web browsers and mobile devices, and can be fully integrated into your social media pages. But if you wish to customize the look of your storefront, you can easily change the appearance using several pre-defined CSS templates or design your own.

One of the finest feature of Ecwid is the syncing between multiple devices. Sell right on the way with your smartphone. This means that you can go to a trade show to make a few sales and all of these sales are reflected on the backend of your website.

Key Features:

1. Set up in Minutes
2. Sell everywhere
3. Social Commerce
4. Global Reach

You can buy add-on plugins to Ecwid on Themeforest/Envato.

6) iThemes Exchange

Easily sell your digital and physical products with iThemes Exchange, simple ecommerce for WordPress.

iThemes Exchange makes it easy to get your store up and running quickly by making the process simple. Just install, activate, choose your payment methods and start adding your products.

iThemes Exchange has a very  user-friendly interface, it makes creating products simpler and more intuitive. Unlike other plug-ins that create their own database tables for customers, Exchange takes advantage of built-in WordPress user system for adding customer information to its own page.

In Exchange, many features are split into add-ons. You only see what your store needs, making it simple to use and manage.

a) Cart: Enable the Exchange Multi-item cart Add-on to allow customers to purchase multiple products with one transaction..

b)  Downloads: With iThemes Exchange you can sell digital download products. With the Digital Downloads add-on, you can easily set download expiration, apply product availability dates and track product inventories.

c)   Shipping: With the Physical Products and Simple Shipping core add-on, you can easily add flat rate or free shipping options to your products. You can also override global flat rate shipping settings to add different shipping prices to individual products.

d)  Coupons: Generate basic coupon codes that apply to all products in your store. You can adjust the time period the coupon is active and even generate a randomized coupon code automatically. Just enable the Coupon Add-on to start creating coupons.

e) Membership : Create as many memberships as you want with specific rules for what content your members can access. You can also use the Memberships add-on to delay (or drip) content access like in a daily, weekly or monthly course.

Moreover Exchange provides you Advanced Product Options which helps by offering additional ways to manage products. This plugin uses the same built-in WordPress user system and add customer data to its own page, making it simple to edit their transactions, view available downloads and make customer notes for your reference.

You can buy add-on plugins to IThemes Exchange on Themeforest/Envato.

7) MarketPress

MarketPress is another free eCommerce plugin available for WordPress. Beautiful, powerful and easy to use.

MarketPress supports all major payment gateways and allows you to easily manage distribution and shopping costs with custom shipping options.

MarketPress plugin has been developed by experienced developers at WPMU DEV, and is a well designed, fully featured eCommerce  and customizable plug-in. The main motive behind the development of this amazing  plug-in is delivering users a simple, beautiful and enjoyable eCommerce experience without any add-on or extension. Thus, MarketPress is a WPMU DEV’s effort of putting together the powers of different plug-ins into one single standalone eCommerce solution.

MarketPress allows you to take control of customization as there are beautiful themes you can customize without touching code, Preset the CSS styles, Product thumbnails/images with lightbox zooming and many other features.

Key Features:

1. Easily Customizeable
2. Powerful Widgets
3. Solid Shortcodes
4. Multi-site and BuddyPress Compatible

You can buy add-on plugins to MarketPress on Themeforest/Envato.

8) YITH WooCommerce Wishlist

Paid Version Available: 1) Single Site – $79

2) Upto 6 Sites – $129

3) Up to 30 Sites – $199

WooCommerce Wishlist is not an ecommerce plugin in itself. It is a popular add-on plugin to WooCommerce which is a popular WordPress ecommerce plugin. See above.

When we hear about “wishlist”, we think about a simple button that lets us save the product we are interested in in the e-commerce store we are visiting. Wishlist is one of the most useful feature of an e-commerce site. It encourages users to save a list of products they are interested in and they can come back and peruse their Wishlist and compare them with other products until they are ready to purchase.

Key Features:

1. Set wishlist page
2. Remove items from wishlist after having added them to the cart
3. Redirect to checkout page after adding items to cart
4. Share wishlist on social channels
5. Allow users to create as many wishlists as they want – Premium Version
6. Allow users to manage wishlists, rename and delete them, add or remove items – Premium Version
7. Allow users to search registered wishlists and to display them – Premium Version

 9) USPS Shipping method for WooCommerce

Paid version – $21

USPS Shipping Method Plugin integrates with your WordPress WooCommerce Plugin and Displays Live Shipping Rates based on the Shipping Address and Cart Content.

The USPS Shipping Method plugin for WooCommerce gets real-time rates from the UPS API. This plugin work with domestic and International package.

DOMESTIC

• Priority Mail
• Express Mail
• Standard Post
• First-Class

INTERNATIONAL

• Express Mail International
• Priority Mail International
• Global Express Guaranteed
• First Class Package Service

USPS WooCommerce Shipping plugin helps WooCommerce based stores to streamline US Postal Service (USPS) shipping integration. This plugin helps you to get shipping rates from USPS APIs based on the shipping address and cart content. Based on the postal codes and other parameters, all available shipping services along with the rates are listed for the customers to choose from.

This plugin calculates shipping rates dynamically While checking out, a customer is presented with the available shipping services and the rates based on the shipping address and cart content. Customer can choose the best method that matches his/her requirements and proceed to payment.

Paid version of this plugin contains a new Box Packing feature, add boxes and it will calculate which box and how much box to use.

Key Features:

1. Integrated USPS with your WordPress Woocomerce
2. Calculates Dynamic Shipping Rates
3. Print shipping label with postage. – Premium Version
4. Auto Shipment Tracking: It happens automatically while generating the label. – Premium Version
5. Box packing with USPS boxes and custom boxes. – Premium Version
6. Enable/disable, edit the names of services and add handling costs to shipping services. – Premium Version
7. Timely compatibility updates and bug fixes. – Premium Version

Is there a plugin that you like? Why not mention it in the comments below.