By default, the eShop WordPress plugin will be in English. To translate it, you just need to install the eShop Languages plugin and activate it. After that, an additional tab like this will appear in the WordPress interface:
And now let’s break it down in order:
- Orders. Here you will see all incoming orders by category “pending”, “pending payment”, “active”, “delivered”, “failed”, “deleted”. Customers can see the status of their order as well;
- Shipping. Here you can add the delivery methods you need and calculate their optimal cost;
- Products. All added goods are displayed in the form of a summary table;
- Sets of options. Here you can add options for customizing the display of products. If you have a lot of product categories and each of them needs to be displayed in a different way (e.g. drop-down list, text or multiple choice), this feature will be very useful for you;
- Downloads. These are all the files you have uploaded to the site;
- Discount Codes. Here it is easy to generate discount coupons that you can send out to your customers. You can choose the type of discount: percentage off a product purchase (limited to use and/or date) or free shipping (limited to use and/or date);
- Base. In this section you can view and download the xml version of the website;
- Emails. Here you will find ready-made templates of emails sent to customers. You can edit them, add tags (customer name, order status, address, etc.);
- About & Help. This is where you will find instructions on how to install and work with eShop. The eShop Languages plugin I installed didn’t translate this section, so if you don’t speak English, you’ll have to use a dictionary.
Extensions to the eShop plugin can be installed from the “Plugins” tab in the WordPress admin area (i.e. the same way you install any plugins for WordPress) or from the official website. There are not very many addons for eShop in total – about 25, but all of them are free.
The paradox is that the eShop plugin seems to be used by quite a few people, but there are no active discussions about it on forums or blogs. If there is a question with customization or something does not work the way you want, you will have to ask a question to the English-language support on the official site or read the English-language documentation. The functionality of the plugin is standard – it seems to have everything, but at the same time something is missing. I have a feeling that a less large online store on WordPress plugin eShop will not pull.