Comments on: eShop Review For WordPress

By: Tyrone

Tyrone — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:59:53 +0000

Hi Kirsty,

Thanks. Have you considered Magento Commerce as an ecommerce store? It’s a fully functional website which accepts a variety of payments.

By: kirsty

kirsty — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 03:23:10 +0000

Thanks for this review. I was thinking of purchasing eshop but after reading your review. I don’t think that I will purchased it again. I will look another process that can be helpful of my business and hopefully will be having a goodluck.

By: Tyrone

Tyrone — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:43:07 +0000

Totally agree – I would only use these plugins for shops with no more than 100 items. May slow it down completely and not very flexible.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:01:58 +0000

I think wordpress shopping carts – this one or any other (eg elegant themes) are great for people with a site and wanting to sell a few products, for example, people selling a few books or CDs or something, but for a normal shop with 1000′s of SKUs, you need a proper shopping cart.

By: Tyrone

Tyrone — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:33:55 +0000

Hi Sunny,

Thanks for stopping by. I totally appreciate it and your feedback is very valuable.

By: Tyrone

Tyrone — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:33:20 +0000

Hi MD,

Have you tried this solution: SHOPP Plugin for WordPress

I’ve had many people recommend this one instead over WP-ecommerce.

Thanks.

By: MD

MD — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:21:01 +0000

I tried asking the developer some questions. He seems to be one of these people who thinks he’s better than you and if you dare ask a question he will give flippant answers and cut off discussion in his forum.
I was 99% ready to go with this plug in- I guess he has enough business cause he certainly won’t be getting mine.
Does anyone have a WordPress cart solution they would recommend?

By: Sunny

Sunny — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:15:09 +0000

Tyrone,

This was a really helpful article! There were a whole bunch of other top 10 lists out there except none of them gave a thorough review or rating!

I’m seriously considering either eShop or WP e-Commerce. Thank you for writing this article!

PS. I’ve added your blog to my Google Reader feeds because it’s so jam packed with great advice. Keep up the incredible work!

By: Rich Pedley

Rich Pedley — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:27:44 +0000

Thanks for the honest and frank review. There are always new features being added to eShop, sometimes as I think of them but more often than not as users ask for them.

Originally it was only ever intended to work with paypal, but as time has gone on a few others have been added and I’m currently on the hunt for a few beta testers to help me add 2 more – Authorize.net and 2checkout.

My goal to integrate into WP with minimal fuss for people was achieved, which allowed users to add products quickly and easily to page, and then to a post. By utilising as much as possible of native WP as I can I may have limited myself slightly, but it keeps things simple.

Now to address some of your other points:
You’ve always been able to edit the CSS file via an interface added by the plugin.

Printing an invoice – did you actually check what is printed? I’ve only done this via a print CSS as other methods are difficult to achieve (especially for a lone developer). I could code a special page for this, but have yet to be asked for it. I may look into doing something a bit different in the future, so I’ll add this to my long term todo list.

Sales reports – it is one area that is lacking I agree, but I have it constantly on my todo list. One day I will get around to adding something, especially as I’ve recently coded a few similar things for someone. But the stats side of things could end up being a major project all on their own.

I always try and help people who have problems, either via the WP forum, the forums on quirm.net or by email. So if anyone does use eShop and want any help – feel free to get in touch.

By: Tyrone

Tyrone — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:33:00 +0000

Thanks for your comments everyone. I believe there seems to be a trend towards setting up blogs with shopping carts. It helps streamline the process and gets more response than just having an e-commerce site on the Internet.

By: Ben Pei

Ben Pei — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:28:22 +0000

I think its good for those who wants to sell clothes through blogs. Lotsa them on the run now.

By: Jim @ CoolStuffForDads.com

Jim @ CoolStuffForDads.com — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:09:24 +0000

Thanks for the review. Very informative. Being in the Internet business I am always interested to learn more about the tools that are available that can help you in being more productive.

By: clickktdotcom

clickktdotcom — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:30:48 +0000

Very interesting and usefull post.
Thanks for sharing!