WordPress eStore Plugin - Complete solution to sell digital products from your wordpress blog securely

1. Do you sell, or want to sell, digital content from your WordPress site while maintaining the security of your digital assets?

2. Are you frustrated with the e-commerce WordPress plugins you’ve looked at? Do you want a plugin with reliable customer service (where your questions get answered and issues get addressed)?

3. Do you hate the thought of paying ongoing fees and commissions to sell via a third party web site?

If you are still reading, then the WordPress eStore plugin may be just what you need!

Plugin Summary

In a Nutshell… this sleek WordPress shopping cart plugin allows you to sell any form of digital products and services from your wordpress blog securely with complete automation. What I mean by complete automation is that once you set it up the whole process (The buying and the delivering of the product without revealing the real URL of the product) works on its own. An overview of the WP eStore plugin operations can be found here.

Yes, you can sell physical 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 find 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.
Easy Checkout

Simplest one-click checkout through PayPal, 2Checkout, Authorize.net or Manual Payment. Customers can pay using a credit card or PayPal account. Benefits of an Express Checkout System.
Ease of Design and Usage

Very easy to use and the freedom of placing an “Add to Cart”, “Buy Now” 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 (e.g AWeber, MailChimp, GetResponse). This way the customers automatically get signed up to your list/campaign for email marketing purpose.
NextGen Gallery Integration

Can be integrated with the NextGen Gallery Plugin to create a Digital Photo Store from the NextGen Gallery.
WP eMember Integration

Can be integrated with the WP eMember plugin. 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 other plugin.
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!). More details on the eStore license can be found here.
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 forum to see how we handle product related issues (usually within 24 hours).

You can read more on the WP eStore features here. 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

See the WP eStore plugin demo page to see how the ‘Add to Cart’/'Buy Now’ buttons work. You can watch these set of video tutorials to see how easy it is to setup and use this plugin.

You can also try the WordPress PayPal Shopping Cart Plugin to get a feel for how the shopping cart works. PayPal Shopping Cart plugin is similar to this plugin except it doesn’t have a database and some of the other cool features.

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.

Example WordPress eStore Sites

Integration with the NextGen Photo Gallery Plugin

NextGEN Gallery developed by Alex Rabe is a fully integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option. A live demo of the NextGen Gallery Integration and How to do it is explained here.

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 for list building for internet marketing purpose

Selling Large Files

If you plan to sell large files then you must read the Selling Large Files with eStore post.

Documentation & Technical Support

The WordPress eStore plugin is simple and easy to use but if you are having any issue with this plugin then feel free to post it on the support forum or leave a comment in the comment area below or on the documentation site.

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

I am not going to tell you that the WordPress eStore is the best WordPress shopping cart plugin ever but for what this plugin does makes it gold. If you want a WordPress Shopping Cart plugin that is being actively developed and has someone behind it to offer support and troubleshoot issues then feel free to purchase this plugin. When you buy this plugin you also indirectly support all my other free wordpress plugin development.

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 admin on January 7, 2010 - 3:25 am

@Daniel, This plugin supports any currency that is supported by PayPal. I am pretty sure Canadian Dollar is supported by PayPal.

#2 by Michael Avery on January 8, 2010 - 7:59 pm

Hi,

Not quite sure I get this? in WP eStore/Settings/Auto Responder Settings

Aweber list name setting, is it the email address if the list that goes in that field or is it the actual list name at aWeber that goes in that field?

Great Porduct!
Michael Avery´s last blog ..Voice of Cuba

#3 by admin on January 8, 2010 - 11:13 pm

Hi Michael, this is the aweber list name (e.g. mylist@aweber.com). In AWeber you have setup a few list for different campaigns I presume so put the name of the list where you want the buyers to be opted in.

#4 by Michael Avery on January 10, 2010 - 5:30 am

Wow,

I am glad I asked about that, I actually put my newsletter email address in that field, I have it now thanks!

#5 by chodhry on January 12, 2010 - 4:18 am

It may look stupid but can we sell some manual products through this plugin? Where the buyer will only get a confirmation email about the product and product itself will be sent after doing necessary customization to them.

So product is still digital but need some manual custom work depending upon the client choices and being sent to them manually.

Anyway we can make this possible?
chodhry´s last blog ..Some wishful thinking for new year 2010

#6 by james on January 12, 2010 - 9:56 am

This looks to be exactly what I am looking for but I have a couple of questions before I go ahead and buy.

One of my main concerns is, after a buyer adds to the cart and pays fot the item what happens next?

The person is sent a download link? Where to? Where do they input their email address?
Secondly, is it possible for the buyer to pass the link to another person or to publsh it for others to use or does the download link expire?

Thanks, Look forward to your reply so I can get my store going!

#7 by james on January 12, 2010 - 10:06 am

Oh, one other thing, I am wondering if you could tell me where I should host my product for download?

Would I upload it to my WordPress Library for example or should I use a third party? And if so how? What are the limits?

Also would spiders be able to find the download link page?

#8 by Ivy on January 12, 2010 - 7:59 pm

James, One of my main concerns is, after a buyer adds to the cart and pays fot the item what happens next?

Paypal sends a IPN file to your site and the plugin verify that the product was paid for and that this information came from Paypal. Once this is done it will send out an email to the customer with the download links in it for all the digital products that where purchased and information on the non digital products such as name and price (this is like a receipt). This will also send you an email telling you what was purchased, Paypal will also send you a payment email.

The person is sent a download link? Where to? Where do they input their email address?
This uses the email address from their Paypal.

Secondly, is it possible for the buyer to pass the link to another person or to publsh it for others to use or does the download link expire?

You can set the expire time for the downloads.

You can upload the file anywhere you want to.

The plugin send out an encrypted link so the person buying the product do not know the location of the download. So the answer to this is no spiders would not be able to find the download page.

Ivy

#9 by Joe on January 13, 2010 - 12:43 pm

I have both eMember and eStore plugins. I have two questions:

1) Is there a way to give the option to signup for multiple memberships at the same time? Not as a package but rather selecting those multiple items out of a list of all items. I’m aware that this can be done with the eStore products option but I wanted them to actually buy/pay for multiple memberships not just products.

2) Can I set it up so that different membership levels get the option to order more products/memberships at a discounted rate. For example, once a silver member pays and signs in they now have the option to buy the gold and platinum at 25% off. But… a gold member has the option to buy the platinum at 50% off.

Thanks in advance. These plugins are awesome by the way.

#10 by admin on January 14, 2010 - 3:56 am

Hi Joe, Nope, multiple membership under one email address is not possible. Each member must have unique email address (this is due to WordPress’s requirement)

There is no straight forward way to do this but there a few ways you can achieve this.

i) Create various coupon codes and make it available to the appropriate membership levels

ii) Create two sets of product (one normal price and one discounted price) and put them on the corresponding membership pages.

#11 by Ivy on January 14, 2010 - 8:13 pm

Chodhry, You can have manual check out but this will apply to all the items that are in the shopping cart. You would have to send out links to each product.

#12 by chodhry on January 15, 2010 - 7:29 am

Well, that would be ok. How can I turn this feature on?

And as I also have emember and afiliate integrated. Does that have any impact on them?

For example, will I have to upgrade memberships manually as well?

And would my affiliates will earn the comission once the purchase has been approved or when the payment was made? so after payment through an affiliate link, I get to give a refund and do not send the link. Would this automatically deduct the comission amount from the affiliate account?
chodhry´s last blog ..Some wishful thinking for new year 2010

#13 by William Estrella on January 15, 2010 - 9:22 pm

I just recently started using WordPress. I’ve been hooked, and now that I’ve found this plugin I feel like I just struck gold. The price is very reasonable. Thanks for all your work. We really appreciate it.
William Estrella´s last blog ..Nikon D3 Digital SLR Camera

#14 by admin on January 15, 2010 - 9:40 pm

@Chodhry, You can turn manual checkout on from the “Payment Gateway Settings” tab under the settings menu.

Yes, most things will have to be done manually as you want to confirm that the customer actually made the payment before he gets anything.

Affiliate commission is given out immediately (this is so you don’t have to keep track of who referred who) but if a payment doesn’t go through then you will just have to reverse the commission from the “Sales Menu” of the affiliate plugin by adding a negative commission of the same amount.

#15 by Charles on January 16, 2010 - 3:30 pm

Hi Amin:
purchased eStore and LOVE it! Would be a bargain at 5 times the price.
Tried to give a rating for eStore at WordPress.org plugin directory but could NOT find eStore anywhere in the plugin directory.

Can u post a link to it if eStore is indeed in the directory??
If it isn’t then please submit it!
Searching for ecommerce plugins in the WP directory only brings up garbage stuff that doesn’t have the features or ease of use of eStore.

Keep up the good work.

#16 by admin on January 16, 2010 - 8:21 pm

Hi Charles, Glad to hear that you like the plugin. This one is a paid plugin so it’s not on WordPress directory but I have the simple shopping cart on wordpress. Here is the link:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-simple-paypal-shopping-cart/

#17 by Valerie on January 17, 2010 - 4:59 pm

Hello,
I love your plugin! Easy to use! Great price!

I have 2 questions.
1. Would there be a way to apply coupons to only one type of products that I sell? Could be one WP category or even one product category. So the cart would have to check if that type of product is in the cart for the coupon to work or something like that…

2. I have many products that are the same type. Is there a quick way to create many products at a time when they have all the same options? If I could copy and paste or create a product template… I did not find an answer to this question.

Thank you!

#18 by admin on January 18, 2010 - 2:33 am

Hi Valerie, You should be able to apply coupons to a specific product using the conditional coupon option explained in this doc:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/how-to-use-coupons-discounts-in-wp-estore-364

At this moment it is not possible to create multiple products from one template but I will add this capability.

#19 by Valerie on January 18, 2010 - 2:51 am

Hello, thank you for your answer about the coupon. But how come I do not have the conditions in my coupon setting page? I cannot set conditions, that part is totally missing….

#20 by Valerie on January 18, 2010 - 3:08 am

I can’t find my previous message about the coupons. Anyway it’s fixed. Thank you!

#21 by Ryan Bayne on January 18, 2010 - 11:48 am

I could get you more sales if this cart worked with roman cart. Customers want my WordPress e-commerce sites and I want to use your cart but many use roman cart on their old html websites and want to keep using it.

Only way I can think is that when a product is added to shopping cart two seperate sets of data are stored. There would also be a product ID entry on the product form.

In theory to me it sounds possible but you know your cart. If it were you open up the ability for people to use roman cart and therfor use any other payment method. You can then state all the payment methods as something your plugin can help offer.

Thats got to catch some attention!

What do you think?
Ryan

#22 by SvendK on January 18, 2010 - 6:31 pm

Hi – I’m doing a website for a client, and maybe I’m going for the eStore plugin, but until further, I’m fine with the Simple Paypal Shoppingcart plugin.
Would there be any crumbles in changing from Simple to eStore in the future?

I’m going to use the NextGen integration as well, is that going to be a problem when switching to eStore in the future?

Another thing, would I be able to store the user details on site, so that the user don’t have to write it again, and for me to add the user to a news letter and such stuff?

Thank you for a really great plugin! As the other people write, it’s impressively simple and impressively effective. It does not interfere with the homepage or take over the home page – it just plugs in…

/Svend K

#23 by Ivy on January 18, 2010 - 7:35 pm

Valerie, It sounds like you might be using a older version of the eStore plugin. Can you tell me what version of the eStore you are using?

#24 by admin on January 19, 2010 - 7:40 am

@SvendK, switching from simple shopping cart to estore is not problematic but their usage methods are slightly different. The video tutorials on the documentation site should give you a good idea on this.

#25 by WebTechGlobal on January 19, 2010 - 6:11 pm

I’m a big fan of eStore, highly recommend it. Here is a YouTube video showing some recent modifications I made to keep a client happy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHgJyey47Pk

If you need a site with a cart that does this simply buy eStore from this site then contact ryan@webtechglobal.co.uk to discuss.

Who knows might see them on this plugin as standard eventually.

#26 by Mike on January 22, 2010 - 9:27 pm

I would like to be able to create a membership site using Wishlist Member. Have the Posts offer product downloads for sale where non-members can add to cart and purchase individual products, then have a membership where if they were a member, they could download the product on the same page without paying. I wouldlike to integrate the Affiliate Plugin with this as well.

Is this possible with your Plugin?

Mike
Mike´s last blog ..MyReviewPlugin Review: Create WordPress Affiliate Review Blogs

#27 by Chack Pesh on January 22, 2010 - 10:31 pm

I recently purchased and installed EStore. The purchase process was smooth and I got to see the plugin in action as I was buying!

As with nost WordPress plugins, installation is super simple, and after watching the videos on the support site, I was able to setup and test my first downloadable product without any hitches (after removing Bad Behavior Plugin). Worked like a charm!

This plugin is a no-brainer if you have digital products to sell. Easily beats the typical (expensive) e-commerce alternatives and from what I’ve seen of the EStore forum, the support is very good.

Great value for money!! Highly recommended!
Chack Pesh´s last blog ..Real Estate Strategies for Rehabbers

#28 by admin on January 23, 2010 - 7:54 pm

@Mike, you won’t be able to list the products on the same page and make only the members purchase it for free. The way to do this would be to have a member’s only download page (this page is only accessible to members) and list all the products there so the members can instantly download it without paying for it (there is a shortcode that you can use that gives a download button which allows the download of the product without revealing the real URL). Then you can put the products on a page where non-members can purchase it.

#29 by Fabi on January 26, 2010 - 3:27 am

Hi,
I have two questions please;
1- the aweber integration, does it need to be aweber or it could be any other email marketing like getresponse.com, etc…
2- Have you tried your template with any automatic content updater plugin(wp robot) for wordpress?
Thanks,

#30 by admin on January 27, 2010 - 2:39 am

@Fabi, At the moment only Aweber and Infusion soft autoresponder services can be integrated. I am in the process of adding MailChimp.

I haven’t tried the template with any automatic content updater.

#31 by WebTechGlobal on January 28, 2010 - 1:22 am

RomanCart modification has been made to eStore by WebTechGlobal so all you RomanCart fans can now keep your existing payment gateway.

Simply purchase eStore from this site then contact me for more details info@webtechglobal.co.uk

WebTechGlobal recommends eStore with or without RomanCart. It is one of or the best allround solution for WordPress.

#32 by Mike on January 30, 2010 - 4:11 am

Hey – Just had two quick pre-sale questions before I decide to purchase a bundle… 1) how do you handle plugin upgrades (ie. will there be an automatic prompt to update estore/emember in WP’s plugin section or do you email zip files based on customers’ email addresses)? 2) How long do you provide support for (ie. say you decide to rewrite the thing for WP 3.2, will you charge existing customers again?)? Looks like an awesome plugin. Already successfully tested the free estore version =)

#33 by Ivy on January 30, 2010 - 8:35 pm

Hi Mike, You can read more about how we handle updates on the forum here is a link to the post: http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/topic/how-and-when-do-you-get-an-update

As for customer service we personally support each and every plugin and we do not charge for customer service (be if you need custom work done to the plugin in we do charge for this). We do not have a time limit on how long we will support our products.

If you have anymore questions feel free to let me know.
Ivy

#34 by Mike on January 30, 2010 - 10:46 pm

Thank you so much for the quick response!

#35 by chord on February 1, 2010 - 11:42 am

hi what is the maximum size of a file that can be uploaded

#36 by Ivy on February 1, 2010 - 6:35 pm

Hi Chord, The eStore plugin does not have file size limits. However some servers do have a file size limit (this is not a big problem there is a work around) =).

#37 by Bo the Webguy on February 4, 2010 - 4:13 pm

Does wp e-store support paypal micropayments? I am looking to convert a store to wp e-store.. my current software supports 2 paypal email addresses and processes depending on total amount of order if its less than or greater than $12.

#38 by Ivy on February 4, 2010 - 7:54 pm

Hi, Unfortunately eStore does not support micropayments at this time. eStore only has the option to use one Paypal email address at a time.

#39 by Bill Messick on February 18, 2010 - 2:51 am

I looked at a lot of plugins before having my client buy yours for his site, I have to say this is by far the best WP store out there, thanks for the great plugin!

Will be using you for all my future stores!
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