WordPress eStore Plugin - Complete solution to sell digital products from WordPress

In a Nutshell… this powerful, sleek and conversion oriented WordPress shopping cart plugin allows you to sell any type of digital products and services from your WordPress powered site securely with complete automation.

Once you set it up, the whole process (the buying, payment verification, and the delivering of the product(s) without revealing the real URL of the product) works on auto-pilot. You can view a simple overview of the WP eStore’s digital delivery operations here.

Yes, you can sell physical (tangible) products with this plugin too as long as you don’t need complex shipping options.

Plugin Features

Below are just some of the notable features of the WP eStore Plugin (you can view a full list of features here):

Security of Your Digital Asset

Automatic instant digital product delivery upon payment through dynamically generated encrypted download link. This way the actual location of your digital product never gets revealed. The link expires after a configurable amount of time or specified number of downloads which ensures the security of your digital asset.
Sell Anything

Sell services, tangible and non-tangible products from your site. For example, you can sell digital downloads, videos, music, photos, subscriptions, tickets, serial numbers, web hosting, collect membership fees, and much more.
Secure Download Manager

WP eStore allows you to embed secure download now buttons for your free downloads (this will prevent hot linking to your files). You can also collect the user’s email address in exchange for the download (helps you build an email list).
Easy Streamlined Checkout

Simplest one-click checkout through PayPal, 2Checkout, Authorize.net or Manual Payment. Customers can pay using a credit card or PayPal account. Don’t lose your customers to a complicated checkout system. Read the benefits of an express checkout system.
Light Weight Shopping Cart

WP eStore is a light weight shopping cart solution. This ensures that the plugin will not slow your site down.
Multi Site License

When you buy the WP eStore plugin you can use it on as many sites as you own (you gotta love that!). There is no “Developer Option” here. One low price entitles you to use the plugin on all of your sites.
Ease of Design and Usage

WP eStore seamlessly blends into your existing WordPress theme. You have the freedom of placing a Buy or Subscribe button for a product or service anywhere on your blog. Read the design overview here.
Autoresponder Integration

It can be integrated with Autoresponders (AWeber, MailChimp, GetResponse). This way the customers automatically get signed up to your list/campaign for email marketing purpose.
Elegant Product Display

WP eStore comes with elegant product display templates which you can use to display your products. Checkout the available fancy product display templates here.
Extensive Shortcode Library

With the library of shortcodes WP eStore provides, you can customize your WordPress ecommerce store exactly the way you want it. Designing your online store has never been easier. Checkout the available eStore shortcodes here.
Lots of Free Addons

You get access to all the WP eStore’s free addons and extensions when you purchase the eStore plugin. See the addons list here.
Plugin Stability

Our plugin code-base is very stable. We put a lot effort into testing and developing our plugins so it doesn’t break your site after you upgrade.
Save and Retrieve Cart

Ability to allow your customers to save their shopping cart content so that it can be retrieved at a later time.
Amazon S3 Integration

Can be integrated with Amazon S3 so that the downloadable files can be stored on your Amazon S3 account and served via secure encrypted download links.
NextGen Gallery Integration

Can be integrated with the NextGen Gallery Plugin to create a Digital Photo Store from the NextGen Gallery to sell photos from your WordPress site. View integration details here.
WP eMember Integration

Can be integrated with the WP eMember plugin to create a WordPress store with membership capability. Creating a membership site with the WP eMember plugin is very easy.
Affiliate Software Integration

Can be integrated with the WordPress Affiliate Software Plugin. So if you decide to boost your sales by introducing an Affiliate Program later then you just have to activate the affiliate plugin.
Detailed Documentation

Scared of getting worthless product documentation after you purchase the product? Checkout the shopping cart documentation before you make a purchase.
Great Support

Tired of listening to fake support promises? Checkout our customer only forum to see how we handle product related issues (usually within 24 hours).

Please see the documentation site to get a feeling for what this plugin can do (this will help you determine if this plugin will meet your needs).

WP eStore Plugin Demo

Click on the above live demo button to see how the Add to Cart, Buy Now and Subscribe buttons work. You can also watch these set of video tutorials to see how easy it is to setup and use this plugin.

You can also try the free WordPress PayPal Shopping Cart Plugin to get a feel for how the shopping cart works. PayPal Shopping Cart plugin’s checkout is similar to this plugin (it just doesn’t have a lot of the cool features that WP eStore does).

Purchase Demo Video

WP eStore Shopping Cart Screenshot

There are a few different ways to display the shopping cart. The following screenshot is one example of how the shopping cart looks when customers add product(s) to the cart.

Squeeze Page Type Form

The WordPress eStore Plugin can be used to insert a squeeze page type form in a post, page or sidebar to offer a free product to build email list for internet marketing purpose (view details).

Documentation & Technical Support

Customer Feedback

We won’t waste your time with fake testimonials! Checkout the customer feedback page and see what some of our customers have to say about us.

Get the WordPress eStore Plugin Now

You will be automatically redirected to the checkout page once you add a product to your shopping cart. you can also find the shopping cart on the sidebar.

Frequently Bought Together

Become an Affiliate

Like the WP eStore plugin? Why not sign up for an affiliate account and promote it to make some money?

#1 by Cameron on April 3, 2009 - 11:02 pm

Hi,

Congratulations on a great plug-in it’s worth every penny, well done!

I have small problem with my install it seems to break the theme.

I’ve tested on the default WP theme with same result.

When you Add to Cart, the Shopping Cart wants to display in the (page/post) area breaking the sidebar.
with: http://www.co-innovations.com/#wp_cart_anchor (loads properly in a fresh session)
see: http://www.co-innovations.com/images/add_to_cart.png

Properly loaded (in a fresh session)
I’m using IE7
see: http://www.co-innovations.com/images/cart_reloaded.png

Thanks.

#2 by admin on April 1, 2009 - 6:05 pm

Hey SuperFist, welcome back! I was wondering where you went. Some good suggestions there. I will go through all your entries and see what I can do

#3 by admin on April 1, 2009 - 5:51 pm

Hi Andrea, The cart works with any currency that is accepted by PayPal. so yes the Cart works with Canadian dollars (CAD). This plugin won’t add buyers to your aweber email list. It will email you the buyers details and what products they purchased though.

#4 by Andrea J. Stenberg on April 1, 2009 - 1:56 pm

Does the cart work with Canadian dollars (CAD)? or do I need to use USD?

Also, can I set it up to add buyers to my aweber email list?

Love this cart!

#5 by Superfist Funk on April 1, 2009 - 11:23 am

PS: I read the whole thread – so I’ll make a little amendment.

@Admin + Francis – regarding splitting big files by offering several links for a single product… how to? That’s a very good question.
Please Admin, check the private email + link I sent you, I think there is an answer there somewhere.

@Admin + Alex. Admin has got a good point, of course, but how about offering both options anyway, and which ever expires first. Say you time limit at 24 hours and offer 4 downloads *within* 24 hours. Makes sense? Of course, splitting big files would help, as discussed above by Francis.

#6 by Superfist Funk on April 1, 2009 - 9:58 am

@Admin,

Regarding:
“…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)”

So you think you could possible add two more options like:
- Check IP, so that the link cannot be passed around…
and/or for those with dynamic IPs
- Download “X” amount of times, so “if” they do want to pass the link around, you can always limit to say two or three download.

I think that most people who purchase digital products are most likely to download straight away anyway, so “check IP” feature is quite good, i.e in case of dynamic IPs and download glitch/failure, they would probably stay connect and try again (same IP), so then comes the other option into play, and they can try again… be good to be able to set it to unlimited too.

What do you think?

#7 by Superfist Funk on April 1, 2009 - 8:17 am

@Admin, I have been away for a while and need to catch up, looks like you have been busy cooking up some amazing plugins for word press.
I shall say it; http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ is THE place – right now.
You are amongst the very best – if not the VERY best!

#8 by Richard Shuttlewood on March 31, 2009 - 11:22 pm

Thanks – that was the problem. I didn’t know about IPN. That is also very reassuring – I assume by using IPN the transaction remains intact even if the user doesn’t use the return link. Cool.

Once I’d fixed the password issue the email arrived almost immediately.

Thanks for a really excellent plugin.

#9 by admin on March 31, 2009 - 10:34 pm

Hi Richard, The way this plugin works is that… as soon as the customer clicks the “Pay Now” button on the PayPal site, an IPN is sent to a script in the ‘wp-cart-for-digital-products’ plugin directory. The script then verifies the IPN and a few other things then sends the email with the download links to the buyer

In your case, it looks like when trying to access the script (which PayPal is trying to do after the payment has been processed) it’s getting a password prompt and getting stuck at the prompt. Is there a way you can configure your site so it doesn’t ask for a password when browsing/accessing the “http://www.your-domain.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-cart-for-digital-products/” directory or the files under it?

#10 by Richard Shuttlewood on March 31, 2009 - 10:20 pm

I’m testing the WP eStore on my site, but although everything appears to work, the email is never arriving.

Everything seemed to work OK – paypal notifications fine, return URL also worked fine. Note that password is needed to view/access any directory or page on my site. Could that be the problem?

Using WP 2.7.1

Any thoughts please?

#11 by Alex on March 31, 2009 - 10:42 am

Thanks Admin for you prompt reply.

Best,

Alex

#12 by admin on March 30, 2009 - 11:13 pm

Hi Alex, The answer is no. The reason I used a time based link expiration rather than click based is because click based restrictions have the potential to cause a lot of hassle. Let me explain a little bit more on that… say for example a customer purchased a digital product that is 10 MB in size. After the customer starts the product download, somehow the download gets interrupted (eg. computer crashed or restarted). Now the customer already used up his one download quota so can’t download the file anymore but he didn’t get the file in the first place! That was just an example… there are more ways a click base expiration can go wrong so I chose the time based expiration.

#13 by Alex on March 30, 2009 - 10:32 am

Hello Admin ,

Is it possible to allows the customer to download my psd files only one time and not
several times ?if yes how can I do it ?.

#14 by Francis on March 27, 2009 - 11:31 pm

Thank you for the fast reply. Updated plugin received.

#15 by admin on March 27, 2009 - 10:13 pm

Hello Francis, Yes anything that’s available in the free version is also available in the paid version. I will check your email address against my paid customers database and if you have already bought the WP eStore plugin then I will email you the latest version of the WP eStore.

No, It is not possible to configure the plugin to send two different download links for one product at the moment. You can maybe make two separate products like part1 and part2 then when someone buys both they will get two links.

#16 by Francis on March 27, 2009 - 9:50 pm

Very effective and simple script!!
I notice that you made some changes to the free script, like images, etc. Are the same changes available in the paid estore plugin?

I used the plugin to deliver digital downloads. Is it possible to configure it such that in a single purchase there will be 2 download links? The reason is that some fils may be very large and splitting it may be easier for the customer to download.

Thank you.

#17 by admin on March 26, 2009 - 4:19 pm

@Chris, yes you can use any http link.. as long as the link is valid and accessible. The way it works is that the buyer gets an encrypted link (the link to the download validation script and an encrypted key) of the product that looks similar to the following:

http://www.your-domain.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-cart-for-digital-products/download.php?file=kz35q4ZymGtoPBPyZx25a3BcQQk1maoPpoix

When the buyer clicks on that link the download validation script (download.php) decrypts the key and retrieves the true URL of the product from the database after validation (if the link hasn’t expired already). This URL can be any link.. for example http://www.some-other-site.com/products/music/awesome.mp3

#18 by Chris on March 26, 2009 - 10:27 am

Can you input the download delivery location as a http link rather than a relative path?
I host my digital products on 4shared file sharing server, this helps with keeping my bandwidth low.

Chris

#19 by Chiaki Takasaka on March 25, 2009 - 7:28 am

Great! I can do it. Thank you very much for your kind prompt reply.

Chiaki

#20 by admin on March 25, 2009 - 6:51 am

Hi Chiaki,

Don’t use comma (,) in the price field. Paypal doesn’t understand comma. So instead of using 3,780.00 as the price just use 3780.00

Update the price of the item by editing it and then it will be fine. Let me know how you go.

#21 by Chiaki Takasaka on March 25, 2009 - 6:41 am

When I push the button of Paypal,such message become as follows;The link you have used to enter the PayPal system contains an incorrectly formatted item amount.

Could you kindly advise me?

#22 by admin on March 25, 2009 - 3:11 am

@Jon, the answer is almost instantly. The email is sent using php mailer from the server as soon as the Instant Payment Notification (IPN) from PayPal is verified.

#23 by Jon on March 25, 2009 - 2:51 am

Hi, How long will it take to receive the email with the link after I purchase the plugin?

#24 by admin on March 23, 2009 - 5:54 pm

Hi Josh, Yes the WordPress eStore Plugin works on a WP MU installation

#25 by Josh on March 23, 2009 - 3:38 am

Does the WordPress eStore pluign work on WordPress MU install?

#26 by admin on March 22, 2009 - 11:03 pm

Hi Harris, with thousands of wordpress themes out there it is impossible for me to guarantee that it will work with every theme without testing it but I have never had a complain from any user regarding the plugin not working for a particular theme and there are quite a few number of users. So I am pretty sure it will work on any theme.

However, if you are unsure a good way to find out if the plugin will work on your theme is to install the WordPress Simple Paypal shopping cart plugin and see if it works. The paypal shopping cart plugin is similar to the WP eStore plugin except it doesn’t have the automatic secure digital product delivery after payment option. The script that handles the product delivery gets executed after the buyer has paid for the product in PayPal and that has got nothing to do with the wordpress theme you are using.

So bottom line… if the wordpress paypal shopping cart plugin works on your theme then the WP eStore plugin will work too.

#27 by Harris on March 22, 2009 - 10:37 pm

Will this plugin support any theme?

#28 by admin on March 22, 2009 - 2:26 am

Yes you can still use the WordPress eStore plugin even if you don’t sell digital prodcuts.

There are a few simple shipping options available in the pluign. Checkout the following URL to learn more on the shipping side of things:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/how-the-shipping-cost-calculation-works-in-wordpress-estore-50

#29 by Charles on March 22, 2009 - 2:09 am

Can I still use this plugin even if I don’t have digital products?

#30 by Dave on March 19, 2009 - 6:39 pm

Thanks! I updated the url and its working now.

#31 by admin on March 19, 2009 - 4:59 pm

@Dave, when you enter a relative URL you don’t use the forward slash (/) at the beginning. So just edit/update the products URL to the following and it will all work perfect

downloads/ebooks/tips/150_tips.pdf

Remember you can always use the full URL if you are in doubt and that will work too. Refer to my WordPress eStore Startup Guide for step by step setup instructions. Let me know how you go.

#32 by Dave on March 19, 2009 - 4:35 pm

Hi, I entered the following URL for the download link and the link that I get in the email didn’t work when I did a test run to see how everything works.

/downloads/ebooks/tips/150_tips.pdf

I get the following error

“Requested File Could Not Be Found”

What am i doing wrong?

#33 by Korin on March 18, 2009 - 6:52 pm

Hi, Just the kind of plugin I was looking for. I have a few eBooks that I sell through your WordPress shopping cart plugin but this one is exactly what I need as it automatically emails the buyer an encrypted download link after payment!

Regards,
Korin

#34 by Edwin on March 18, 2009 - 5:45 pm

This plugin is just what I’ve been looking for. We’re looking at potentially selling ebooks and training programs and one of the hurdles we faced was finding a shopping cart tool to do so. We couldn’t find anything suitable until now! Thanks heaps!

#35 by Ralph on March 18, 2009 - 4:16 pm

I’ve been looking for a decent WP Store plugin for so long. Thanks a load.

#36 by Darren (Green Change) on March 18, 2009 - 7:48 am

This is very cool. I don’t need it just yet, but once I get a couple of eBooks written this will be an ideal way to sell them from my site.

I’ve been keeping an eye out for something like this for a while (with selling my eBooks in mind), and haven’t seen anything that’s quite the same. It’s a nice mix of light-weight (not the full-blown online store solution that wants to take over your whole site) and powerful (site-wide shopping cart, can put buy buttons anywhere, supports purchasing multiple items).

Can’t argue with the price, either.

Keep up the great work!

WordPress eStore Plugin – Complete Solution to Sell Digital Products from Your WordPress Blog Securely

Plugin Summary

Plugin Features

Security of Your Digital Asset

Sell Anything

Secure Download Manager

Easy Streamlined Checkout

Light Weight Shopping Cart

Multi Site License

Ease of Design and Usage

Autoresponder Integration

Elegant Product Display

Extensive Shortcode Library

Lots of Free Addons

Plugin Stability

Save and Retrieve Cart

Amazon S3 Integration

NextGen Gallery Integration

WP eMember Integration

Affiliate Software Integration

Detailed Documentation

Great Support

WP eStore Plugin Demo

Purchase Demo Video

WP eStore Shopping Cart Screenshot

Squeeze Page Type Form

Documentation & Technical Support

Customer Feedback

Get the WordPress eStore Plugin Now

Frequently Bought Together

Become an Affiliate

WP eStore Questions (F.A.Q)

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