WordPress and E-Commercea Primer

Things to Consider

✤ Number of Products - How Many products initially? And in future?

✤ Region/s you’re selling to - Are you selling Local? International? To Uganda?

✤ Tax - Does your shop have to have variable tax rates?

✤ Postage/Shipping - how are you going to calculate shipping?

✤ Payments - Do you need a pmt gateway? Merchant Account? PayPal?

✤ Fulfilment - how are you processing orders... personally? Shipwire?

✤ Theming - how comfortable are you with HTML/CSS?

WP E-CommerceWell EstablishedLots of Add Ons (many commercial)Digital and Physical ProductFully ThemeableTheme Shops building for WPEC Tokokoo Storefront Themes

http://getshopped.org/

WooCommerceNew in the MarketGetting lots of BuzzBeautiful themesWooThemes building directly for eCommerceResponsive ThemesExcellent Support

http://www.woothemes.com/woocommerce/

JigoshopBase of WooCommerceFree

http://jigoshop.com/

eShopSimpleEasy to Style - no new post typesGood for Basic Shops using PayPal

http://quirm.net/wiki/eshop/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/eshop/

ShoppCommercial

https://shopplugin.net/

Some GotchasPlan - Adding e-commerce later is a DRAMAKnow what sort of payment gateway you’re going to use and make sure your plugin accounts for it.Know your Shipping plan and make sure you can use that with your chosen pluginThink about ongoing product management and plugins to make it easier (especially for larger sites).Did I mention Plan?

Frustration by Sybren A. Stüvel