eShop WordPress Plugin
July 28, 2009 by: admin
Finally bloggers can start their very own eShop from their blog with the help of a simply but totally cool Plugin. It is called eShop Plugin and allows you to open your very own store (limited) right from your blog.
Price: Free
Latest version: 3.6.1
Tested, and working, in WordPress 2.8.1 and is WPMU compatible.
Payment Options: Paypal, Payson, eProcessingNetwork, Webtopay and Cash/Cheque
The following sites use eShop – the WordPress ecommerce plugin – to manage their self-hosted WordPress shops:
BiteSize WordPress Theme Shop
wormsigntshirts.co.uk
cupcandles.com
hair-scrunchies.com
For further reading:
eShop Plugin Homepage:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/eshop/
Overall eShop has a lot of pros and can benefit a first time user allowing them to sell some of their products online. An important aspect that I believe they need to improve on is to offer more payment gateway options. Though, there are still a lot of developmental issues to overcome to get it up to comparable e-commerce solutions such as Zencart and OsCommerce. I would still stick with fully functional e-commerce solutions over eShop if I have hundreds of products to sell and a large database to manage and run the WordPress blog separately.
I tried asking the developer some questions. I tried asking him some questions about gateways and the ways you could process transactions and got flippant answers as well as cut in his forum.
I was 99% ready to go with this plug in- and hire him to do some custom work but I guess he has enough business cause he certainly won’t be getting mine.
It seems like a good plug in as long as you’ll never need any support.
Meanwhile
Does anyone have a WordPress cart solution they *would* recommend that has decent support?
Looking into this for a client, think it does everything that they need!
Will report back when live!