Best WordPress Ecommerce Shopping Cart Plugin to sell Digital Products

Posted by Jacob on Oct 14, 2011 in WordPress | 0 comments

WordPress is the most popular self-hosted blogging platform right now. Over 50 million sites are powered by WordPress and growing. At the moment no other CMS (Content Management System) is even closer to its Success!

The way internet ecommerce is booming everyone is trying to grab their piece of share. All the small and medium size businesses are using WordPress to set up their online store to sell products and services online. WordPress is easy to use, cheap to setup/maintain and tons of functionalities. WordPress Shopping Cart Plugins provides all the features to sell any products (Digital/Non-Digital) or services from your own WordPress blog by turning it into an ecommerce site.

There are many free and Premium WordPress ecommerce Shopping Cart plugins out there. I personally prefer the Premium plugins because of the support and the functionality they provide. Free Plugins do not get updated very often and do not provide support when you need it the most. Its simple, you get what you paid for. To run your business smoothly you will always need support just like anything else you use in life. If your hot water system is broken you need to call a plumber to get it fixed. If something goes wrong with the Plugin whom would you ask for help? Also when you are dealing with customers’ sensitive information like Personal details, payment history etc, the plugin have to be very reliable.

WP eStore is the top ecommerce shopping cart plugins in the market at the moment to sell any digital products like Digital Downloads, Music (MP3), Videos, Digital arts, Photos, Online tutorial (PDF) etc and Services. For the last two years WP eStore team have added new features continuously and the plugin have become better than ever.

No other WordPress Shopping cart Plugin offers the some of features that WP eStore offers for selling digital products.

Digital Product Delivery

The plugin instantly deliver the Digital products to the customers upon successful payment. Customers receive Product download link in their email and also from the post payment page.
Product download links are automatically get encrypted so the real links to the products always remain secret.
Encrypted download link or URL gets automatically shorten by using Google’s free URL shortener to make a complex URL look nicer and tidier
You can control how long the Download link should be active (eg. 12 hours) so the link does not get passed around.
You can also control the number of downloads per link. So you can decided how many times the customer can use the download limit and the link gets expired automatically after that.
The plugin allows multiple file downloads per product.
Variation control for digital products (digital delivery of different files depending on the selection).
You can also use the plugin to create a Squeeze Page that allows your visitors to download a free digital product after they fill in their name and email address. How to create a squeeze type page..

Amazon S3 Integration

WP eStore Shopping Cart Plugin can be easily integrated with Amazon S3 so you can store all the digital downloadable files on your Amazon S3 account and deliver them to your customers via secure encrypted download.

Pay per View Content

The plugin allows you to create pay per view content. You can redirect your customers to a web page that holds the content (for example streaming videos, audio) without revealing the page URL. How to sell a pay per view video..

Payment Security

Before the plugin delivers the product download link to the customers it validates the IPN sent from Paypal against your products database and Paypal so no one can scam the system by sending fake IPN.

Digital Product Security

The plugin always keeps the true location of your digital content hidden. This ensures the security of your digital product.

I like the fact WP eStore never claims to be what they are not. They have mainly focused on Digital Products and mastered the features. You can still sell physical or tangible products by using WP eStore plugin but their Inventory System, Shipping and Tax Calculation, Order Management features are not very developed to meet all your needs but for selling digital products WP eStore is the best WordPress Shopping Cart plugin and you will love their Amazing Support.