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WP e-Commerce Plugin: Create an Online Store for Free!

Jason Keith — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:28:06 +0000

The WP e-Commerce Plugin is a multi-featured Online Store WordPress Plugin that allows a company or individual to integrate a shopping cart into their website, providing site visitors the opportunity to purchase products, digital downloads, or services being offered. The WP e-Commerce Plugin has several options for payment, which allows the seller to increase their potential customer base by offering Paypal, Payment Express, and Google Checkout as integrated payment processors. In addition, the seller can offer manual payment options such as check or money order, and has the ability to program other payment processing options.

The WP e-Commerce Plugin allows for a range of design options while requiring no programming experience, thus allowing those inexperienced sellers to create a secure option for customer purchasing, and customizable HTML & CSS for more experienced programmers. Sellers therefore have the ability to create a shopping cart design that reflects the website's style, include a company logo, and match company colors to create a professional transition between the main webpage and shopping cart.

A number of marketing options are built into the WP e-Commerce Plugin, allowing the seller to set shipping rates, create coupons, discounts, or sales, while integrating such information with social networking sites such as Facebook Marketplace, and email marketing via Campaign Monitor. Additionally, a "Share This" button is available through the WP e-Commerce Plugin to maximize a seller's ability to raise the profile of, and increase interest in, individual products. Sellers also have the ability to offer free shipping using coupon or discount codes, raising selling potential, or to create multi-tier pricing for quantity discounts. Thus, the seller can encourage the purchase of larger quantities by offering shipping discounts with each additional item purchased. WP e-Commerce Plugin integration with multiple shipping options – UPS, USPS, Australia Post and Shipwire – increases the customer base as well.

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The eShop Theme For WordPress from Review

Jason Keith — Sat, 15 May 2010 19:01:19 +0000

Powerful WordPress eShop Theme

The eShop Theme for WordPress offers many features for a user who wishes to turn their WordPress powered site into an online shop and allows a subscriber to turn their WordPress powered site into a combination eShop and blog. An eShop single use license can be purchased for $65.00, and a multiple use license can be purchased for $99.00.

Installation of the eShop Theme for WordPress is quite easy and can be completed with one click. Unlike other themes, the eShop Theme will populate all aspects, such as the product listings, which gives the user a basic template to start using the eShop Theme immediately. If something goes wrong with the eShop Theme’s one click installation, support is fully offered.

Besides the usual blogging features, such as threaded comments, colored themes, search optimization, and breadcrumb navigation, the eShop Theme has many features to help a user make money. The eShop Theme contains a product listing page that lists products, the product’s picture, and the product’s price. The eShop theme also comes with three different shopping carts, including a normal shopping cart, a digital shopping cart, and a catalog mode.

The eShop Theme also includes several features that make selling online a very easy task for anyone who wishes to buy the theme. The eShop Theme offers multiple ways to pay, including PayPal, Google Checkout, and cash on delivery. The theme also supports coupon codes, changes to tax percentages, and shipping options. Another feature for businesses included in the eShop Theme is the ability to accept or decline orders from the admin panel.

The eShop Theme provides many features for people who wish to sell online but have little to no experience running a website. The eShop Theme’s simple installation and usability will have a person making money online within minutes.

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e-Commerce Theme from Templatic for WordPress Review

Jason Keith — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:47:51 +0000

E-Commerce is a rapidly growing way of doing business all around the world. Not only does it allow consumers the convenience of shopping at their leisure from the comfort of their own homes, but it allows merchants to reach a wider scope of customers than those in their immediate networks.

Templatic has developed an e-Commerce theme to help you turn your WordPress site into visually pleasing, easy-to-navigate storefronts. The theme comes with five color schemes, guides and tutorials, and customizable menus to fit your needs as a seller and your clients’ needs as buyers.

At the front end of your online store, the theme allows you to provide photos and close-up shots of products, a member login section, a checkout page, and a blog. The back end gives you a place to easily manage coupons, payments, shipping, theme options, and to edit your posts and update your products.

It even allows you to choose which shopping cart mode you want to be available to your customers. You can choose the classic shopping cart typically used for tangible items, the digital shop more commonly used with things like e-books or other digital services, or the catalog mode if you only wish to display your merchandise and not sell it over the internet. There are also a variety of ways to accept payments including Paypal and bank transfer.

To use the e-Commerce WordPress theme on a single website, the cost of a lifetime license is $65 USD. A multi-site lifetime license costs $99. But, if you run a number of types of websites, you can buy a yearly subscription to Premium Theme Club Full Access. The membership costs $279 for the first year and $179 each subsequent year and gives members licenses to all current themes to use on an unlimited number of websites.

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ShopperPress WordPress Shopping Cart Theme Review

Jason Keith — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:56:19 +0000

WordPress is probably the most popular blogging tool available. Its user friendly interface has encouraged more and more users to expand beyond a simple blog. Many small business owners are looking to WordPress for an ecommerce base and Premium Press has software available that could make it easier for them.

ShopperPress is a shopping cart theme that can be added to any WordPress blog site. The package is a very reasonable $79 that does not require annual renewal. It comes with more than 20 different store designs. It also supports the thousands of WordPress plugins and widgets.

The software includes built-in tax, shipping, and order management features. The shopping cart checkout process has more than 15 ways to take online payments. If you already have an affiliate store with Amazon or Ebay, ShopperPress allows you to import your products in minutes.

The administration dashboard is divided into 11 sections that are easy to navigate and make keeping up with your stats simple. It has an overall summary and detailed charts for order history and monthly sales figures.

Setup is a step-by-step process that walks you through configuring the site to make it unique. After choosing your design, you can quickly enter logos, emails, and copyrighted text. There are separate sections for setting up advertising and editing graphics.

Knowledge of programming such as XML or PHP is unnecessary. Just like a regular WordPress blog, setting up ShopperPress is done through a non-technical user friendly interface. It does use some CSS codes, but the website has many video tutorials to help with figuring out each step. They also have a free online support staff.

The Premium Press website promises lifetime support and free upgrades. In today's economic climate, lifetime has sometimes proven to be an unpredictable variable. However, if this software proves to be as easy to use and reliable as its parent, WordPress, their confidence may be justified.

Since ShopperPress is layered with WordPress, it can use the same security plugins as well as HTTPS/SSL secure pages. Of course, it requires a reliable hosting company that is WordPress ready. Since most of the better hosts already offer WordPress capability, installing it on an existing site is usually a simple process. With WordPress and ShopperPress an online store can be operational in just a few days for little more than $200.

WordPress Store Theme from Templatic Review

Jason Keith — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:06:24 +0000

The WP Store WordPress theme is a great tool for people who wish to turn their WordPress powered site into a powerful ecommerce platform. The WP Store theme has two different license types that can be purchased. These license types include a single use license for $65 and a multiple use license for $99.

People interested in building an ecommerce website will find many helpful tools and features in the WP Store WordPress theme. Besides the usual shopping cart, which adds the extremely handy “add to cart mode”, the WP Store theme also has a digital shop option. The digital shop allows for digital items, such as e-books, icons, or digital art to be downloaded anytime through a unique customer account on the ecommerce site. This comes in handy for people that wish to cut out third party digital delivery sites and allow digital downloads at any time.

Catalog mode is also offered with the WP Store theme. Catalog mode lets a site showcase products, but changes the buy now area to a send inquiry area. This is especially helpful for ecommerce sites that run out of a product and wish to start a list of customers that wish to purchase the item once it is in stock.

The actual layout for the WP Store theme is nice and easily showcases the products that an ecommerce store has for sale. Categories are easily implemented, allowing for better user site navigation. Each product listing is able to show a picture of the product, price of the product, and a summary of the product, all in one, clean, easy to use format. There is also a large top area available for use, which can show a product that is on sale, new to the shop, or a featured item.

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Templatic’s Kidz Store Theme Review

Jason Keith — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:49:18 +0000

Run Your Own Kid's Product E-Commerce Site with Kidz Store!

Templatic’s Kidz Store Theme is ideal for those looking to quickly establish an online Web store for children’s apparel but are unwilling or unable to design the Website from scratch themselves. Like other e-commerce offerings from Templatic, the Kidz Store Theme allows users to use simple point-and-click commands to transform their WordPress sites into very professional looking Web storefronts featuring full-fledged e-commerce capabilities. The software requires no formal training and very little technical skills to use. To get started, users simply download and install the Kidz Store Theme from Templatic’s Web site. The theme already includes all the design features and administrative functions needed to get started with a Web store almost immediately.

For the store front-end for instance, Templatic’s Kidz Store offers several easily customizable Web page templates. The templates include a homepage, a products listing page and a products detail page. The pre-populated homepage is designed to appear like a Web store front for children’s apparel and lists numerous product photos along with accompanying pricing information. A menu to the right of the page gives visitors the option to browse the store by product category and allows customers to log in to their accounts and check out products.

To customize the homepage, a user simply has to edit out the existing information on the page and replace it with information specific to his or her Web store. For example, users can replace the pre-populated photos and product information on the homepage and on related pages, by simply dragging and dropping their own product photos, product details and pricing information into the appropriate boxes. Kidz Store Theme’s front end also includes templates for a login page, a checkout page, a personal customer account page and a blog page. All of the hyper-linking between the pages is already enabled, so users do not need to know PHP, HTML or CSS in order to be able to set up a fully-customized Web storefront for their business.

For the Kidz Store back end meanwhile, Templatic has provided similar, fully customizable templates for handling functions such as payment and shopping cart management, shipping options, and coupon handling. As with all of Templatic’s themes, Kidz Store comes with an integrated system for handlings meta tags and header information for ad management and search engine optimization purposes. Templatic is a provider of numerous WordPress themes. In addition to its E-Commerce themes, the company also provides similar software for CMS, Portfolio, Multimedia and Magazine themes. Click here to learn more!

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Templatic’s Store Theme for WordPress Review

Jason Keith — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:27:34 +0000

Buying and selling products through online shopping sites has become a popular way for many individuals to reach a wider marketplace with their products. Listing products and selling with pre-established, big-name websites can be pricey, so the Store theme for WordPress allows you to sell your products from your own site – without letting someone else benefit from your hard work.

The Templatic Store theme allows online merchants the ability to display pictures of their items in their store fronts, and to edit or add posts to the store front from the back end. The theme allows users to manage all aspects of online commerce: orders, shipping, tax, payments, user registration, coupons, customer service, and a blog – it is still WordPress, after all.

Depending on the items sold, the site manager can choose different shopping cart modes. He can choose the standard shopping cart popular all over the web if he is selling individual, physical items. But if he’s selling something a little less tangible like digital art or e-books, he may want to choose the digital shop mode. And, if he doesn’t want to sell online and only desires to display his products, he can use the catalog mode which will allow visitors to submit questions to him about the products. There are a number of payment options too, including Paypal and Google Checkout to name a couple.

For a single site, a lifetime license will cost $65 USD. To use the theme on an unlimited number of sites, a site manager and purchase a multiple use license for $99. But if a site manager is running a variety of different sites, he can buy a membership that allows access to all Templatic WordPress themes to use on an unlimited number of sites. This membership costs $279 for the first year and $179 each subsequent year.