WordPress is a popular blogging platform and content management system, but it can also be used for powering E-commerce websites. Although its primary purpose is not E-commerce, there are a number of plugins available that will allow you to use WordPress for your online store.

In this post we’ll take a look at 15 E-commerce or Shopping Cart plugins that can help you to set up your own E-commerce site on WordPress.

WP e-Commerce

The WordPress e-Commerce plugin is a state-of-the-art e-Commerce platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards and usability. It is both free and priceless at the same time. WP e-Commerce makes it easy for you to accept payments online. Its integrates with Google Checkout, Paypal, Authorize.net, Payment Express and many other trusted payment processors.

eShop

eShop is an accessible shopping cart plugin for WordPress, packed with various features. eShop uses WordPresspages, or posts, to create products. There are various methods available for listing the products. It allows you to download data and upload downloadable products. The basic statics and sales data provided by the plugin is quite handy. The Admin has access to an order handling section. It sends automatic emails on successful purchase. eShop offers a number of payments options that include- Authorize.net, Paypal, Payson, eProcessingNetwork, Webtopay and Cash/Cheque.

QuickShop

Quick Shop supports any WordPress that has the Sidebar Widgets installed, really. It adds a SideBar widget that shows the user what they currently have in the cart and allows them to remove the items, not to mention a TinyMCE button to easily allow you to add products to your posts/pages.

Are PayPal

It’s a unique WordPress plugin that allows monitizing WordPress blog content using Paypal. That’s a cool way of making money by selling your knowledge. It allows you to set the Post/Page to contain hidden content. To visitor willing to view the content has to perform a given task provided in a message.The content might be set as hidden for unregistered users and visible for registered. The plugin uses Paypal IPN – Instant Payment Notification protocol to offer a fully automated payment/content delivery.

ArtPal

ArtPal is a free (GPL) WordPress plugin, originally written for Artists, to seemlessly integrate PayPal with their WordPress blogs so that they can sell their work online. ArtPal’s most important features are:
* Easy PayPal integration – all you need to supply is your PayPal email address!
* Real-time sales updates – as soon as your item sells, ArtPal will disable it from being sold. You’ll never worry about your item selling twice!
* Professionally supported–businesses mean business. Digital Sublimity provides commercial support, so you can be rest assured that your critical application will stay up and running when you need it.

YAK Shopping Cart

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).

WP Live-Shopping

This widget enables you to display all relevant live shopping offers within your WordPress blog in one single widget. You can add the widget to your sidebar and customize its appearance as you like inside the boundaries of LiveShoppingWidgets presentation options.

FatFreeCart

Fat Free Cart plugin is an extension of FatfreeCart. With FatFreeCart Plugin you do not have to generate or paste any code in CSS or HTML of WordPress theme. The plugin is designed to work within your WordPress post editor. FatFreeCart Plugin allows you to add “Add to Cart” and “View Cart” buttons on your blog posts so that you can sell your products straight through your blog post. FatFreeCart plugin has all the features of FatFreeCart such as flawless integration with Paypal and Google Checkout, product variations, Shipping handling, and Sales Tax.

WP-osCommerce

This plugin is to be used with WP.osC (released under GNU/GPL by Roya Khosravi). WP.osC (osCommerce for WordPress) is a modified version of osCommerce, one of the most popular ecommerce solutions. The main difference between WP.osC and osCommerce, is that WP.osC uses the same Theme system as WordPress. WP.osC allows you to integrate osCommerce into an existing WordPress website.

WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart

The WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart is a very easy to use plugin that allows you to sell products or services online in one click from your WordPress blog. WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart lets you add an ‘Add to Cart’ button anywhere on your blog. This plugin also allows you to add the shopping cart anywhere in a post or page or sidebar easily. The shopping cart shows the user what they currently have in the cart and allows them to add or remove items. The payment is processed by PayPal.

WP Auctions

WP Auctions is one of the a good amount of innovative ecommerce plugins for WordPress which supplies users to host auctions on such a blog or website without any expenditure. It does not cause register fees, seller fees, ultimate class fees, gallery fees or any a good deal more kind of fee for anything and everything you wanna arrangement online.

Ecwid Shopping Cart

Ecwid is free full-fledged shopping cart that can be easily add to any blog. It’s not a hosted solution like all other plugins in this list but SaaS. Ecwid Shopping Cart takes minutes to add to your site, supports drag-and-drop and AJAX. It features customizable e-mail notifications, order history, tracking payment and shipping status, support for PayPal, Google Checkout.

LockPress

Free WordPress plugin to charge your visitors for accessing blog posts and pages. With LockPress you can easily earn side income by selling articles, your knowledge, your own products or MRR/PLR items (ebooks, software, etc) and even run a membership site. The possibilities are endless. You will get the payments directly to your PayPal account and you can set the flat or recurring fee items.

FireStorm Ecommerce Shopping Cart

The FireStorm Ecommerce Shopping Cart Plugin is a free WordPress plugin that allows you to turn your WordPress website or Blog into a fully functional online store. The plugin is ideal for any corporate, small business or home based store. The administration is easy to use and loaded with features. It operates stand-alone which means it does not require blog posts for each product. This allows you to keep your blog separate from the store.

PayPal Donation

Adds a PayPal donation sidebar widget and shortcode to WordPress. The options menu lets you setup you PayPal ID and a few other optional settings. You can choose which donation button you want to use or if you want to use your own button. You can also set an optional default purpose and reference which can be overridden on each inserted instance with the widget and shortcode options. There is also settings for currency, custom payment page style and the return page.