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What is best wordpress e-commerce theme?

by Eric Huard
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Hello warriors. I need a wordpress theme that is able to sell physical products (easy to load different products with easy shopping cart features). A theme that is also able to recognize when my items are sold out that it says "sold out" on the item or that it just deletes it completely. All in all, I am looking for a very functional and easy to use wordpress e-commerce theme that can be updated regularly with ease. Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Audarah
    Hi Eric,

    Unless you have your own inventory, I dont know of a way that a theme when know when you are out of stock. Maybe someone else can recommend something, but I dont see an answer to this. You usually have to go in and physically put a banner on the item that says "out of stock". BUT, if you find a solution- let me know.
    The easiest one to use or the best one? That is really all individual variant. If you know alot about wordpress, and are pretty code savvy because you will have to change your code from time to time- then I'd pick pretty much anything. Stay away from Magento if you want ease of use. They are great, but VERY hard to get the handle of if you havent done it before. I have bazar theme. Wouldnt recommend that either. Steep learning kurve there. Alot use Kasyopea ( I am probably spelling that wrong). It really is all up to you and your experience and skill there. Plus, you have to decide what is right for you and what all you need ( category layout, layered navigation *highly recommended, dont skimp there if you sell different variations of products*, catelog, do you want brand logos at the bottom, etc). All themes have differences to offer. Some are really great, and some just simply are really bad.
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    • Profile picture of the author OnlineStoreHelp
      Its not so much the theme that will do it, but the shopping cart plugin. Many will allow you to input inventory. Even Woocommerce has this function and themes that work friendly with it.

      That being said, I am wondering why you are trying to stick a square peg in a round hole. The very thing you are looking for is exactly what a dedicated shopping cart solution will do.

      Now, I am going to try and figure out your reticence to use a shopping cart application.
      • I only have 3 products I am selling. Thats easy and you don't need a ton of functionality from a shopping cart plugin. PayPal will let you set up inventory.
      • I have a wordpress blog already with good traffic and want to stick with it. Ok, you can still run a shopping cart application on a subdomain and keep your existing wordpress application.
      • Its too expensive to run a shopping cart application. How much is your time worth and you can still set up a simple zencart shopping cart absolutely free.
      • I understand wordpress and I like it better. I understand, I like wordpress too but the shopping cart plugins are not nearly as friendly or as full functionality as a shopping cart application.
      Woocommerce might work for you but you may need to buy a premium theme of theirs that is guaranteed to work with Woocommerce. You may need to buy additional add-ons since the woocommerce functionality is limited without add-ons.

      Hope this helps.
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      • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
        Originally Posted by OnlineStoreHelp View Post

        Its not so much the theme that will do it, but the shopping cart plugin. Many will allow you to input inventory. Even Woocommerce has this function and themes that work friendly with it.

        That being said, I am wondering why you are trying to stick a square peg in a round hole. The very thing you are looking for is exactly what a dedicated shopping cart solution will do.

        Now, I am going to try and figure out your reticence to use a shopping cart application.
        • I only have 3 products I am selling. Thats easy and you don't need a ton of functionality from a shopping cart plugin. PayPal will let you set up inventory.
        • I have a wordpress blog already with good traffic and want to stick with it. Ok, you can still run a shopping cart application on a subdomain and keep your existing wordpress application.
        • Its too expensive to run a shopping cart application. How much is your time worth and you can still set up a simple zencart shopping cart absolutely free.
        • I understand wordpress and I like it better. I understand, I like wordpress too but the shopping cart plugins are not nearly as friendly or as full functionality as a shopping cart application.
        Woocommerce might work for you but you may need to buy a premium theme of theirs that is guaranteed to work with Woocommerce. You may need to buy additional add-ons since the woocommerce functionality is limited without add-ons.

        Hope this helps.
        Yeah, I couldn't agree more with the above. Put a real shopping cart on a subdomain of your existing WordPress blog. I would also add that using WordPress for eCommerce is a PCI Compliance nightmare. Almost all shopping carts track inventory nowadays and, if you really want to take all of the upgrade nightmares and PCI compliance issues out of the picture, get a hosted solution (we use BigCommerce but there are plenty of others that will do).

        Finally, I'd like to add to your third point in the "reticence" section. If you cannot afford to pay $25/month for your eCommerce website including the hosting of it, what's the point in having one? I'd be very bummed if I had an eCommerce website that only generated $25 per day!
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    • Profile picture of the author OnlineStoreHelp
      Originally Posted by Audarah View Post

      Hi Eric,

      Unless you have your own inventory, I dont know of a way that a theme when know when you are out of stock. Maybe someone else can recommend something, but I dont see an answer to this. You usually have to go in and physically put a banner on the item that says "out of stock". BUT, if you find a solution- let me know.
      The easiest one to use or the best one? That is really all individual variant. If you know alot about wordpress, and are pretty code savvy because you will have to change your code from time to time- then I'd pick pretty much anything. Stay away from Magento if you want ease of use. They are great, but VERY hard to get the handle of if you havent done it before. I have bazar theme. Wouldnt recommend that either. Steep learning kurve there. Alot use Kasyopea ( I am probably spelling that wrong). It really is all up to you and your experience and skill there. Plus, you have to decide what is right for you and what all you need ( category layout, layered navigation *highly recommended, dont skimp there if you sell different variations of products*, catelog, do you want brand logos at the bottom, etc). All themes have differences to offer. Some are really great, and some just simply are really bad.
      Oh man I am waiting for you to get slammed by the Magento Nazi's out there that think using anything but Magento is herasy!
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  • Profile picture of the author amdadhbd
    The Selection of Ecomeerce theme is depends on your product. I mostly like ecommerce theme from WordPress Themes | WP Themes | WordPress Templates. All Theme are 100% responsive and work on all type of device. Lifetime support also provided.
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