These days a lot of people are using WordPress to build dynamic, feature-rich online stores. This platform is much more flexible and cost-effective than standalone e-commerce scripts like Magento and OpenCart. In this post we will help you find the ideal plugin for your store.

Here are the top ten WordPress ecommerce plugins available in the market:

1. WooCommerce

WooCommerce is the best shopping plugin out there. Since its introduction in the market, it has been downloaded millions of times. It is completely free, is supported by a multitude of themes and has flawless object-oriented code. The code has been inspected several times by independent security consultants. Since the plugin been created by WooThemes, one of the oldest and most trustworthy WordPress software houses in the World, you can rest assured that your website will keep performing year after year without running into any problems.

With this eCommerce plugin, you can easily convert any WordPress website into a powerful shopping hub. It also allows you to monitor stock levels, incoming sales and reviews, stats and general store performance.

2. WP e-Commerce

No list of ecommerce wordpress plugins can be complete without a mention of this plugin. Like WooCommerce it is completely free and has all the features that an online business owner can ask for. With WP e-Commerce, adding a shopping cart application to your blog is easy and quick. The only negative thing is that this plugin needs regular maintenance, which can sometimes become cumbersome.

2. eShop

This is another great plugin that you can use to create an online store. It gives you access to all the important statistics of your website so that you can make informed decisions. You can also download your sales data. Another advantage of this plugin is that it supports multiple payment gateways like iDeal, WebtoPay, PayPal and many more.

4. WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart

If you don’t want to create a full-blown ecommerce site and are looking for a lightweight solution then this plugin is the way to go. It the highest rated and most downloaded lightweight shopping cart application for WordPress. Tax calculations and location-based shipping is outsourced to PayPal. It can easily be integrated to any existing website or Facebook profile within a few minutes. It is user friendly, yet highly customizable.

5. Jigoshop

Jigoshop was created by professionals with many years of experience in handling online stores of global brands. No matter what kind of web store you want to create, JigoShop can help you out. This plugin allows you to create multiple product types and apply detailed attributes ensuring that your clients will discover any service/product with just a few clicks. The dashboard provides you incoming order/review notifications, sortable sales graphs, and detailed stats on the performance of your store.

6. Ecwid

This is a shopping cart application that is easy to install as well as fully customizable. It has some really great features that can’t be found in any other application. However it has a downside as well: almost all of its features are dependent on Ajax. This effects the SEO value of your website. Moreover, people who do not have Javascript activated, can’t use it properly.

7. Cart 66 Lite

Use this plugin if your website is committed to offering several services and products. The features in this plugin can make shipping of both digital and physical products easy, and you may have Amazon S3 integrated to all your digital products. You can also manage your orders effectively and make use of custom fields for products. You can also collect recurring payments for payment plans, memberships and subscriptions.

8. Quick Shop

Quick Shop only works with PayPal, however, it offers more flexibility than any other plugin in this category. It allows you to set the currency as well as provide free delivery for orders exceeding a specific amount. This plugin can best be used with themes that come with a sidebar as this plugins offers a sidebar shopping application. The plugin requires PHP 5 and you have to style your pages by yourself since there aren’t any themes designed specifically for this system

9. Welcart

Welcart is a program that was made in Japan. It allows you to build a robust e-commerce system on top of your existing WordPress site. Apart from having a shopping cart application, the plugin offers several other functions essential to run your store, like “membership function” and “order management function”. Remember that the community page is in Japanese.

10. TheCartPress

This is a WordPress eCommerce Plugin that was designed by professionals. You can use it as shopping cart application or a powerful product catalog. Its functionality can be extended with plugins and themes.

Which plugin are you planning to use on your website? Let us know in the comments section below.