WordPress eStore Plugin Features
Categories: Additional Resources, Featured
Below is a list of the main features of the WP eStore Plugin:
- Automatic instant digital product delivery. Upon payment the buyer receives a product download link in the email and also on the post-payment return page (eg. a Thank You page)
- Encrypted Product download link (The buyer always receives an encrypted product download link which means the actual link to the product always remains secret)
- The link can be configured so it redirects the buyer to a web page instead of giving them a download (useful when you want to redirect the buyer to a web page which contains streaming videos for example)
- Automatic Link Expiration (The encrypted link the buyer receives also gets expired after a configurable amount of time (eg. 12 hours) so the link doesn’t get passed around)
- Automatic Instant Payment Notification (IPN) validation (The IPN sent from PayPal is validated against your products database and with PayPal, before the product download link is sent to the buyer. This stops anyone trying to scam the system by sending a fake IPN)
- Multiple Currency Support (Can be configured to accept money in any currency that is supported by PayPal)
- Very easy to use and the freedom of adding an ‘Add to Cart’ or ‘Buy Now’ button for a product or service anywhere on your blog (posts, pages, sidebars, header, footer).
- Shopping cart – session based (The shopping cart can be displayed anywhere on your blog posts, pages and sidebar)
- The ‘Add to cart’ button text is configurable. A customized image can be used as the button too.
- The buttons can be configured so they act like ‘Buy Now’ type buttons (takes the customer directly to PayPal for Payment bypassing the shopping cart).
- All the buttons are customizable through the usage of button images and CSS.
- Simplest one-click checkout through PayPal.
- Sell both digital and non-digital products with this one WordPress plugin.
- MySQL Database driven.
- WP eStore DOES NOT create any page or post automatically (I find it untidy when plugins automatically create pages). WP eStore gives you all the shortcodes that you can embed on posts or pages to get various functionality but you will have to create the pages yourself (in my opinion this gives the designer more design flexibility).
- Easy and quick setup. You will be up and running and selling products in less than five minutes.
- Can be integrated with the NextGen Gallery Plugin to create a Digital Photo Store from the NextGen Gallery.
- Customer Database (When a Customer purchases an Item the Name and Email address goes to the database)
- Ability to offer a ‘Squeeze Page’ type free product download option (This allows the site visitors to download a free digital product after they fill in their name and email address. This can be used for email list building). See example
- Capability to limit the maximum number of copies to be sold for a specific product (Useful when you only want to sell 50 copies of a product for example)
- Pre-integrated with the WP Affiliate Platfrom plugin. So, in the future if you want to use an affiliate program to boost your sales all you have to do is activate the other plugin.
- Coupon Code/Discounts Feature.
- Ability to offer product specific affiliate commission when using with the WP Affiliate Program plugin.
- Products can be configured with a thumbnail image and a description and can be displayed in a stylish way with a trigger text. (See demo)
- Ability to configure a “Subscription” button for any type of subscription payment. (See demo)
- Variation control for digital product (digital delivery of different files depending on the selection)
- Ability to setup “Buy Now” type buttons with different PayPal email address (per button basis). Useful on a multi-author blog where different authors can setup “Buy Now” buttons with their products and get the money directly into their PayPal account.
- Can be easily integrated with the WishList plugin (Create Membership Site)
- AWeber Integration option. customers are automatically signed up to your AWeber list for email marketing purpose.
- Can be used with PayPal’s profile based shipping for dynamic shipping calculation based on location or weight.
- Multiple Payment Gateways. Customers can pay via PayPal, 2Checkout or a manual process (learn more).
- Can be integrated with OSI iDev Affiliate software.
October 6th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Does it support monthly subscription payments via paypal?
October 6th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
Yeah it does, please see the following post for a detailed instruction on how to configure a subscription payment:
http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/?p=400
October 21st, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Is it possible to use this plugin with other payment systems, ie Google checkout, or does it only work with Paypal?
October 22nd, 2009 at 6:17 am
@Trudy, At the moment it only works with PayPal but I am working on integrating 2Checkout now.. next I will include Google Checkout.
November 11th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Hi again,
quick question regarding the sales stats. I have a free trial period of 30 days on one of my products. As of now, thats the only product I sold and tis not being counted as a sale. is it because it is a subscription or because of the 30 day trial? Will it count once the next billing cycle hits and money is actually counted?
thanks,
November 11th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
@Alex, The plugin doesn’t count it as a sale unless it receives the money (technically the customer can still cancel the subscription before the trial period is over and you won’t make a sale)
November 12th, 2009 at 1:51 am
Thank you as always for your help and such quick responses! I will always go back to buy your products!
November 17th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Hi guys,
I am putting together a review/recommendation site and am trying to figure out a plug-in that will allow me to show off the products that we are recommending in the same way your estore plug-in does, is this something I can use it for? We will not be selling the products, just showing them with a description and receiving a click through payment for the referral.
Thanks for your help.
Paul
November 17th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Hi Paul, When configuring the product you can make it so when the “Buy Now” button is clicked it goes to a specified URL rather than adding the product to the cart. This URL can be your affiliate link for this product. You can also customize the button to suit your needs.
This way you can setup all the review products specifying the affiliate links of each and display them on a page with the fancy option. When they click on the button it takes them to the site where they can purchase the product (the link is an affiliate link so you get commission if they purchase it).
November 17th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
Awesome, you have saved me a lot of work! Thank you so much!!!
Paul
November 28th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
Is there a limit on the number of sites you can use the plugin on?
November 29th, 2009 at 12:11 am
Hi Kevin, you can use the WP eStore plugin on as many sites as you like as long as the sites are owned by you. Here is the full licensing details for this plugin:
http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/wp-estore-license-479
January 14th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
Hello, does this e-comm solution have support for price breaks? ie. buy 3 and get x dollars off? Any possible solutions would be helpful. Keep in mind that creating a product with 3 downloads would not be a solution. would need to have different products, all priced the same, and recognize if there were x amount of products and get one free or certain amount off. Ideas? Solutions?
January 14th, 2010 at 11:42 pm
Josh, The only way you can do this is with a coupon. Keep in mind that if you have an item with a $0 Paypal will not process the order.
You can learn more about coupon code here:
http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/how-to-use-coupons-discounts-in-wp-estore-364
Ivy
January 15th, 2010 at 2:21 am
Thanks Ivy, that was very helpful!
January 27th, 2010 at 6:52 pm
Do you have plans to release a version that supports clickbank payments? If so, when?
January 27th, 2010 at 10:52 pm
Sorry we do not have any plans of adding clickbank anytime soon. Our developers are very busy working on a new plugin and getting updates for all of our existing plugins tested and released.