Archive for the ‘Wordpress Shopping Cart’ Category

YAK Shopping Cart WordPress Plugin Review

Amongst the other e-commerce plugins I have reviewed such eShop and WP e-Commerce, YAK Shopping Cart has come to my attention and the author Jason R Briggs describes the plugin as follows:

YAK is an open source, shopping cart plugin for WordPress. It associates products with weblog entries, so the post ID also becomes the product code. It supports both pages and posts as products, handles different types of product through categories, and provides customisable purchase options (cheque or deposit, basic credit card form, standard PayPal integration, PayPal Payments Pro, and Authorize.net).

Therefore I was interested in testing to see how it would compare to the other plugins I’ve tried. So let’s get straight into the pros and cons of this plugin.

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Ecommerce Essentials a Great Shopping Cart

A crucial development in ecommerce has been the shopping cart taking its name from the store grocery cart has been a simplified analogy which buyers have quickly adopted and adapted to, however, the reality is much more complex. Shopping carts are the vital component of any effective ecommerce website because they handle the ordering and payment process which allows a website to transact business online without a shopping cart mechanism, an ecommerce website is simply a dead end leading into old world commerce.

There are three major types of shopping cart an ordering system; a store building system, and customized transaction systems all based around a software platform capable of running on the website hosting server.

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WordPress Shopping Cart : Some Features you Have to Consider

WordPress shopping carts that use Paypal are very hard to find. The majority of those that are available are still in alpha and beta development stages and not ready for a production web site. This is a great pity because WordPress is the prefered website environment of choice for many Internet marketers for well known reasons, including the speed at which you can deploy new sites, and the myriad of tools, themes and plugins that are freely available.

Given the current explosion in popularity this particular development environment is experiencing I am really surprised that there are so few wordpress shopping cart options available. The coding of these scripts and plugins must be a lot more complex than what one would expect.

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