This store plugin for WordPress was once very popular. But since the introduction of WooCommerce, it has started to decline dramatically. WooCommerce is essentially an extended version of eCommerce. The official site of the plugin has a blog, which is updated quite rarely.
Functionality
Having activated the eCommerce plugin on your WordPress, you will have an additional tab on the left panel – “Goods”. Inside it contains:
- Products. All the available products on the site are displayed here, you can immediately go to edit them;
- Add. Tab for adding new products and customizing their visual display;
- Product tags. Here you can add product names that will be displayed in the URL, as well as SEO-descriptions of products;
- Categories. Functionality for adding and editing product categories. Here you can create categories, customize them according to SEO requirements, and then group products into them;
- Variations. This section allows you to add multiple variations of the same product. For example, if you sell clothing, you can add different sizes and different colors for the same item;
- Coupons. You can create discount coupons and customize how they work: how long they will be valid, what products they apply to, etc.;
- Extensions. Here add different plugins right from the interface. The price of extensions for eCommerce is from $12 to $199. I didn’t find any free extensions.
The eCommerce plugin is not bad, but for beginners it is likely to be a serious problem that it is difficult to find any useful information about it. And that’s rather strange, considering the number of active installations of the plugin. The functionality is not bad, but in comparison with WooCommerce it loses out.