Comments on: Online Shops with WordPress & WP e-Commerce Plugin

By: shawn woodhull

shawn woodhull — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 08:10:26 +0000

I am still a big fan of this plugin. The admin interface is far more intuitive than the likes of Zencart. Inexperienced users are able to operate the day-to-day functions easily.

By: marketrue

marketrue — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:43:07 +0000

Shopp is terrible! Just say no.

By: marketrue

marketrue — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:41:57 +0000

I had a terrible experience with the support group on this product. I bought it and it was buggy out of the gate. It had a strike through on every price in the system which they fixed somewhat quickly, couple of days. But the worst was a little piece of code that automatically marked everything as a home delivery. My client was B to B and needed FedEx ground. I recognized it had to be their code right away sending the command for FedEx Home Delivery. The FedEx API doesn’t even require it.

Two support personnel just could not get it. They gave me every lame excuse in the book that had nothing to do with the problem I was reporting. Terrible customer service. Finally, Jonathan Davis, the owner, was included in the conversation and it took only minutes to correct the problem that his support staff took 6 hours to fail to identify! Then because I demanded to speak to a manager and threw a fit about the poor customer service, Jonathan Davis banned me from all further support! What a goober! Don’t buy this product.

By: George

George — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 23:54:24 +0000

Bureau 24 – If you are getting into issues with lack of support, head over StorefrontThemes.com and visit their support forums. They have some pretty awesome themes and also do a lot of support for the plugin.

By: Bureau 24

Bureau 24 — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:26:30 +0000

Google Checkout is suppose to work with this plugin. Apparently it doesn’t. There is zero support and even worse documentation. It’s a horrible program.

By: Joshua Hatfield

Joshua Hatfield — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 20:10:01 +0000

Glad to have found this post. I will tell you the story of my WP-Ecommerce experience.

I’ve been using this plugin for years now, but whenever WordPress upgrades, I have to always do something with this plugin. I understand compatibility, but even while updating from version x.x.1 to x.x.2 something breaks whether it’s the plugin or WordPress itself.

Today I was working with WPEC’s product categories and it completely broke the site. It is in production, but all parties (David, the client, and myself) are becoming impatient at this point.

– The home page doesn’t use it’s template anymore.
– Some category archives that are supposed to use category.php ignore it.
– Some pages work, others don’t.
– Single posts are fine.
– Single product pages point to the most recent post.

I have always been a fan of this plugin, because it’s the best one out there, but it being the best is a shame for the entire WordPress community. I don’t know how many unanswered questions are on the WPEC forum, but it seems atleast 80% or more go unnoticed. Websites and web apps in general shouldn’t need an install guide.

It’s all about making things convenient and simple. I can’t figure out what’s going wrong, there’s rarely any structure in the code base, and things are everywhere. If someone is up for a 60 day challenge, I bet $5000 I could create something with basic UPS integration, variations, and products (including templates).

All I’m saying is that it seems everyone has issues with all E-commerce plugins at one point. How much company and freelancer time has been wasted working on these monsters? I won’t compare it to IE6, but atleast IE6 answers are readily available via Google. Quit trying to pack it with all these features it doesn’t need. It should be as easy as an admin creating the product and the customer buying it.

By: garfield

garfield — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 04:27:55 +0000

Saw this post and thought i would throw my hat into the ring so to speak. My team are about a week away from creating the “holy grail” of wordpress ecommerce a fully functional and secure osCommerce plug in for WP.

Yes it is a monster task, but thankfully i have a genius running the team and we are 80% with no issues to date.

We are also looking for beta testers..you can sign up at http://www.wponlinestore.com

Cheers
Garf

By: Kristian H

Kristian H — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:51:25 +0000

Shopp is buggy. It is waste of time and money.
Difficult to understand all that fuss about that product.

By: Jason King

Jason King — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:48:17 +0000

Anyone here used the MarketPress plugin yet? WPMUDEV seem to have a good pedigree but I haven’t yet found any independent discussion/comparison/review of this new plugin.

By: Bee

Bee — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 21:41:10 +0000

Thanks Josh for the website comparison page. Since your post there hasn’t been any more comments. Either you directed the energies correctly or WP-ecommerce has improved immeasurably since.

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 00:30:49 +0000

I was just getting into WP Ecommerce, and this is exactly the experience I had, and what you suggested in your comments is just what I was looking for. Thanks for posting this, I wish I had read it before I paid for the Gold Cart.

By: e Learning

e Learning — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 06:03:16 +0000

Documentation is definitely lacking but that’s no different than most plugins I’ve found. The Search functionality is definitely buggy. Some things just don’t come up even though the search terms are associated with a product in the database. Overall it’s Ok – but far from perfect.

By: T-qualizer

T-qualizer — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 11:32:34 +0000

I’m deciding to build a website selling textbooks. I’m trying to decide to use which ecommerce builder.

Currently im using Cubecart for my Website. And it works great.

Im not sure if i wanna try using WordPress. Can anyone suggest me?

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:59:34 +0000

I found the following comparison site, which looks at the alleged leading eCommerce solutions for WordPress. http://wp4im.com/wordpress-eco.....nd-themes/ An unbiased review of the recommended ShopperPress solution would be most welcome.

By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:05:23 +0000

We just released DukaPress: http://dukapress.org and I believe it is a new and refreshing option.

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By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:06:23 +0000

Finally, I got fed up with both the market theme and WP commerce, I just decided to post a job for the freelancer at http://www.ofreelance.com to customize a wp plugin.. real cheap.

By: Kris Benoit

Kris Benoit — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:56:11 +0000

Having a good support forum is worth it’s weight in gold.

By: Xnuiem

Xnuiem — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:41:42 +0000

I am so over this plugin. We have a couple of the commerical add ons for it, but the main problem I have is performance.

One page, the customer wanted all the items on the same page, so there are about 20 or so on one page. It takes 444 queries to build it. There is no re-use of results, the SQL interaction is horrible.

Officially looking for another solution at this point, tired of making excuses for it.

Now, that said, if you have a small site, not much traffic, and a small shop..GO FOR IT! It will do just fine. But if you go above that, be ready.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 09:56:26 +0000

I wish the guy who set us up as wordpress store had read this.
I have been struggling to figure out why the various search widgets weren’t working and now you have laid it our for me I am gutted!
I am a novice in the web design world and working around this is beyond me. But how can we have a online store without a search?! ARGH!