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And you thought that was it for WordPress and Shopping Cart Plugins… not so fast!

To say that WordPress is evolving by the day is an understatment for sure:  It gets Better by the day is more like it. Give me a solid Codex to build on and you get more Plugins that give you the tools to do anything that you or  your blog readers want. So expect to see more of those plugins in the near future.

Here are some more Shopping Cart Plugins for WordPress:

Shopp Plugin

Author Description

“Shopp is an e-commerce plugin that adds a feature-rich online store to your WordPress-powered website or blog. Get your store up and running in minutes. Then, take it to the next level with the flexibility of Shopp’s customization tools that allow production studios and power users to tailor every aspect of the shopping experience.”

Features

Streamlined single-page product data entry

Track product attributes & specs

Add multiple hierarchical categories without leaving the product editor

Handles multiple product images with easy drag-and-drop sorting

Innovative product variation management

Basic inventory management and low-stock e-mail alerts

Support for selling digital & physical products and donations

Order history with customizable labels for order processing status

Export orders and customers into Tab, CSV and Excel formats

Export orders for import into Intuit QuickBooks

Email order notifications for order status changes with support for sending customer messages

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YAK for WordPress

Author Description

“YAK is an open source shopping cart plugin for WordPress. It associates products with weblog entries, so the post ID also becomes the product code. It supports both pages and posts as products, handles different types of product through categories, and provides customisable purchase options (cheque or deposit, basic credit card form, basic Google Checkout integration, standard PayPal integration, PayPal Payments Pro, and Authorize.net)”

Features

Create products from either posts or pages

Downloadable products

Multiple product types — price per type (i.e. small, medium, large) and quantity per type

Order administration — filtering by date, status and order number

Products page with paging (simple alternative to viewing by category)

Configurable shipping (either flat rate or by weight unit)

Configurable shipping address

Configurable countries list

Promotions — percentage or fixed discounts, on shipping or order value

Sales Reports (basic flash charts showing sales, best sellers, etc)

Support for https (SSL)

Tags for configurable emails

Basic XML feed

Support for multiple shops (function to retrieve product details from another shop)

Customer interface has been translated into a number of languages

Support for WordPress MU (new, but beta)

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PHPurchase Plugin

Author Description

“The goal of PHPurchase is to be extremely easy to configure and use allowing you to turn your WordPress site into a money generating machine. WordPress excels at allowing users to easily manage the content of their website, display photo galleries, run blogs, etc. PHPurchase is designed to allow WordPress to keep control of all the things that it does well while adding the ability to process credit card transactions.”

Features

Easy Product Placement

Simple Order Management

Offer discounts and Promotions

Multiple shipping options for customers: Shipping Prices Per Shipping Method,Shipping Price For Each Product,Shipping Price Based On Cart Amount

Sell both physical as well as digital products

Easy To Customize

Supports: PayPal, Authorize.net and Quantum Gateway payments

All aspects of your store and it’s layout are managed through shortcodes

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While it is easy to convert your existing blog into a BlogShop; it makes things much smoother if you start with a fresh install of WordPress , Add your Basic Plugins and then install any of those Shopping Carts. The downside is working harder to get your traffic up and running.

If you are not shooting for a full BlogShop, there are always : Widget Based and Copy & Paste Shopping Carts, but that is the making of yet another post !

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