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Review of WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin

One of the top feature requests by web design clients is of course the ability to sell items online and I’ve had to do a bit of research to find a suitable and robust shop plugin for my web design tool of choice WordPress. There’s a few smaller, basic plugins that do a job but for a proper cart the main plugin seems to be WP-ecommerce but I’ve had nothing but trouble with that, seems very buggy. Sometimes you just have to go commercial with plugins and get what you pay for! So here’s my recommendation for the best all round commercial wordpress shopping cart plugin at the time of writing.

It’s logically called WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin by Tribulant Software and its priced at a very reasonable, once off $49.99 for a single installation or $249.95 for the ability to add it to as many sites as you like. Here’s a rundown on the highlight features:

Unlimited Products and Categories.
Support for automatic Digital Product sales.
Multiple payment methods including Paypal and Manual.
Multiple Currencies.
Customisable shipping structure.
Discount Coupons.
Product Variations/Styles.
Inventory Countdown.
Product embedding in wordpress posts and pages.
Multiple widgets available.
Custom Fields.
Ajax powered content tabs.
Product Search Widget.
Multimple Regional Taxes.
Supplier Login.
G-Zip Compression.

The standout features for me are:

Stripe Payment Integration via extension. (Accept Credit Cards with NO Merchant or Gateway setup or monthly fees!)
Realex Payment Integration. (Both Redirect and Remote/Onsite methods)
Digital Product support.
Affiliate Product Support.
Ajax (fast loading) product information tabs.
Flexible pricing and shipping options.
Custom Fields.
Invoice/Order PDF generation.

There’s also a very interesting setting to make any product an External/Affiliate item. I also like the Recommended Retail Price option which displays the RRP struck out over the actual price. The checkout procedure is very nicely laid out in a step by step method which should help conversions and minimise confusion, a common problem on e-commerce sites.

The plugin is way lighter than its rival wp-ecommerce, is pretty much bug free as far as I can see and is compatible with recent versions of wordpress including the current 2.8.5.

This is about the best e-commerce plugin currently available for wordpress and the price won’t break the bank.

Demos, Documentation and Support available HERE.

Get it now on the Tribulant site.

Leon.

Rated 4/5 on Oct 21 2009

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Posted in Reviews on October 21st, 2009
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http://tribulant.com Antonie Potgieter

Thanks for posting the review of my plugin!
Jay

Installed the plugin but it slowed down dramatically the website performance. I had to give up as it took 20-30 seconds for the site to load. Too bad as I need a shopping cart for wordpress which integrates Realex

http://www.reverbstudios.ie Leon

Can’t say I’ve ever really noticed a big slow down with it. Maybe it’s something to do with some of your other plugins? I have it installed here and the site speed is fine – http://www.celticrug.com
Kieran

Its slow on two sites that I have and the link provided above is also slow
http://www.reverbstudios.ie/blog Leon Quinn

The CelticRug.com link no longer uses it and I havn’t used recent versions. Just make sure you’re using a recent version.

Jay

Yes you’re right, it was not because of the plugin. But I installed it just before the servers of the hosting company experimented some kind of crash, it took me a while to learn about their problems, so I thought the new plugin might have something to do with the slowdown. But it’s working just fine after reinstallation.
Thanks a lot for your answer.
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Well plug in is not so bad but yes there is time issue in it. It should work more fast and speedy so that its performance improved more.
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can this plugin be easily integrated with UPS for shipping?

http://www.reverbstudios.ie/blog Leon Quinn

You’d have to ask the developer, not sure - http://tribulant.com/products/view/10/wordpress-shopping-cart-plugin?a_aid=reverbstudios&a_bid=c76d9958

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Thanks for posting the review.