Video: See how powerful and easy PHPurchase make ecommerce with WordPress.

• Sell digital and physical products
• Collect recurring payments for subscriptions, memberships, and payment plans.
• Set up coupon codes for promotions.
• Build a complete membership site with PHPurchase
• And much more…

There are many reasons why people are saying that PHPurchase is the best ecommerce shopping cart for your WordPress store. Here are are few of the highlights.

• Use the full power of WordPress to customize your store
• Unbelievably flexible design options
• Sell digital and physical products
• Recurring payments for subscriptions, memberships, and payment plans.
• Easy PCI Compliance – Safe and Secure
• Extremely fast and efficient
• Fully integrated shopping experience
• Backed by prompt and professional support

We’d like to thank Rob Walling and Mike Tabor for mentioning PHPurchase on their podcast Startups For The Rest Of Us They have a fantastic podcast with great tips for all sorts of things pertaining to small businesses and startups. Absolutely worth checking them out.

Click to listen to what they say about PHPurchase

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From The Transcript

From the transcript of their podcast starting at [2:27]

The other thing is I haven’t done consulting work in well over a year, but a friend of a friend asked me to do just 20 hours of work for him last month. And I worked with this component that was so freaking good that I had to talk about it. Seriously, I was so amazed I told them they need to raise their price. I mean it was one of those experiences where you’re just like blown away by the marketing and the usability and the ease of use, the whole deal in this thing.

It’s called PHPurchase.com. I think it’s supposed to be like PHPPurchase.com but its PHPurchase.com. It’s just a WordPress plug-in, and it’s to make a shopping cart in your WordPress install.

I looked, I evaluated. I probably spent two to three hours. I have a list of about 12 plug-ins that I evaluated and this one is by far the best. It’s very simple. There are some WordPress cart themes that actually create all the layouts and you enter a database of products. This one is more like you enter some products and it just gives you a “Buy Now” button you can put anywhere in your WordPress install.

These guys are top notch so I wanted to mention them on here. I told them I was going to and really impressed with their work. And I actually was looking at other stuff they built because it’s like, man, if I ever need any other components, I’m definitely going to these guys. So that was PHPurchase.com.

You do not have to have an active payment gateway configured in order to test Membership Access using PHPurchase. You can manually create a member and then manually assign a subscription product to the member. Then you can test your WordPress membership website to make sure the access privileges are working the way you want them to. Here’s how to set this up.

If you are clicking the Add to Cart button and it appears that nothing is happening and no products are getting added to the cart, the most likely cause is a javascript error on your page. Here are some tips on how to fix this problem.

PHPurchase makes it easy to sell your digital products. You can supercharge your sales by adding your own affiliate program as well. Affiliate programs are the #1 way to increase your e-commerce sales and by far the most profitable form of advertising. PHPurchase is already seamlessly integrated with the WordPress Affiliate Platform. Simply install both plugins and you have your own affiliate program without paying any monthly fees to affiliate program services. We highly recommend setting up an affiliate program – especially if you are selling digital products. Whether you choose to set up an affiliate program or not, PHPurchase makes it easy to sell your digital products. Here is how you set up a digital product with the PHPurchase WordPress shopping cart.

PHPurchase is integrated in with PayPal Website Payments Pro and PayPal Express Checkout. Please note that if you are using PayPal Website Payments Pro, PayPal also requires that you offer PayPal Express Checkout. Otherwise they may charge you a higher transaction fee. It is very easy to get set up with both PayPal Website Payments Pro and PayPal Express Checkout. Here is how you do it.

Of course we think PHPurchase is the #1 WordPress plugin. But we frequently get asked what other plugins we think are the best and which ones do we use most often. Many of these plugins we use on website that also use PHPurchase. For example, you can use the NextGEN Image Gallery plugin to create a slide show of product images. Use the All In One SEO Pack to optimize your store for search engines. Install the PageMash plugin to get your navigation the way you like it. Basically, combine these plugins with PHPurchase and you can make your WordPress site do anything you want. So, here is a list of the plugins that we think are the best.

One of the things that makes PHPurchase so flexible is that virtually all aspects of your store and it’s layout are managed through shortcodes. If you are not yet familiar with WordPress and using shortcodes, they are just snippets of code that you can insert into your posts and pages to execute various functions. PHPurchase provides the following shortcodes.

It used to be an expensive, hard to install feature but today there are plenty of ways to add Live Chat support to your  WordPress ecommerce website or blog – or any website. According to a study done by LivePerson, having a live chat feature on your online store improves shopping cart conversion rates by 18% – 20%. The problem is that a 5-agent site license from LivePerson is $495/month which is far too expensive for a small business or a blogger.