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1. SS_Minnow
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   I've spent pretty much my whole day so far looking for a good ecommerce solution, hopefully one that works with Wordpress. I have about 300 products in a spreadsheet that I'd like to be able to import, and the products need to be searchable. This is what I've found out so far...

   WP Ecommerce - no ability to import or search products

   WP.osC - I could not successfully set up the database. Instructions are vague.

   OS Commerce (without Wordpress) - No product import ability. Navigation required to add products is painful.

   osCommerce plugin by Tal Orlik - Says it pulls product listings into Wordpress from an installation of OS Commerce. I could not activate it. It caused a fatal error when I tried.

   WP-osCommerce plugin by Roya Khosravi - Supposed to work with WP.osC but since I couldn't get the latter to work, the former didn't work either.

   FatFreeCart plugin by www.e-junkie.com - Allows you to add shopping cart buttons to posts. This makes the products searchable, but there is no product template. The only information that shows in the post is what you manually enter.

   Does anyone have suggestions for a better solution? I have used Miva Merchant in the past and love the fact that you can export & import product, category, and order data and products are searchable, but the downside is that it requires Miva's proprietary database engine and the hosting company that the client's sites are on does not provide that. Miva hosting is sort of pricey.

   Thanks for any insights.

2. cyber49
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   We're looking for the same thing for 2000+ products - sure hope someone answers...

3. SS_Minnow
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   I'm talking with the guys at phosphormedia.com (Bruce & Gordon) about making a better ecommerce plugin. All of the solutions that are currently available for Wordpress are really pretty lame.

4. mdgrech
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Yah all the current e-commerce solutions are not very elegant. I've been hacking eshop for the past fews, the frustrating part is I had to hack the core of the plugin just to get it to met my needs so there goes my ability to upgrade :(

5. byronyasgur
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   i did a shop with eshop - i liked it except that each product and each category requires a separate page in the pages section which makes navigation in the backend pretty difficult
   ( i guess up to 50 products would be ok )

   other than that i found it good - not too much hacking was needed and it was easy enough to get info on on their website bytes for all

   didnt try to import anything though

   here's the site http://www.blissbeauty.ie/online-shop-elemis/

6. SS_Minnow
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Not true at all. You can have your products in posts, which is very handy because you can use plugins to sort your categories as well as your posts within the categories.

   I also ended up using eShop. Here is the link:

   http://oldcarnetwork.com/

   BTW, WP-Ecommerce recently added product import from CSV file.

7. funckytown
   Member
   Posted 1 week ago #

   Hi, everybody,

   I am also looking for an ecommerce linked to WP,

   It is amazing (If I may say) that for such an important matter
   we end-up with less than 10 comments.

   Is there no other solution Today?
   I saw that there are a lot of ecommerce products for Word press...

   I just want to sell one to 10 Products,
   I will try eShop, and maybe.. come back

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