WordPress

You can find a great theme at Themeforest.net, search under ecommerce. I do recommend Wordpress and Woocommerce. Let me know if you need some design help.

Yes the wordpress platform can easily handle this type of site for you. There are thousands if not hundreds of thousands of plugins also that can help achieve exactly what you are looking for on a reasonable budget.

Good luck

Ugh, I wouldn't use GoDaddy's solution. It is extremely limiting and isn't really meant to be used for full-blown ecommerce stores.

TBH, I wouldn't use WooCommerce either, unless you are okay with not taking credit cards on site. WooCommerce is NOT PCI compliant, therefore you cannot take on-site CC payments unless you wanna risk being audited and heavily fined! Don't get me wrong, it's a great solution aside from that short coming.

If you want to build a full blown ecommerce store and accept credit cards on site to maximize your conversion rate and profit, I recommend looking at a fully hosted PCI compliant solution like BigCommerce, AmeriCommerce or CoreCommerce.

I hope this helps!

http://www.warriorforum.com/website-...ecommerce.html

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I think we're going to go with Godady for hosting we've already signed up. I don't think our sight will have heavy traffic at least at first. Do you guys recommend any wordpress Ecommerce themes like ThemeForest or WooComerece?

Hi Guy,

I want to create a wordpress ecommerce shop any person help me

yes wordpress is good for you find a lot of themes to build your store look at themeforest

As OnlineStoreHelp already indicated above, GoDaddy hosting is absolutely awful for ecommerce stores and Wordpress sites. On top of that, Wordpress is NOT the best ecommerce solution and shouldn't even be a consideration if you are serious about building a strong ecommerce store. WooCommerce and all other WP ecommerce plugins that I've seen are NOT PCI compliant if you want to be able to accept on-site credit card payments. You will be stuck accepting nothing but off-site solutions like PayPal, and that is going to be extremely detrimental to your conversion rate!

If the $30/month to accept credit cards on site and the $25/month for a fully PCI compliant shopping cart platform (like BigCommerce) is too much of an investment to make, you probably shouldn't even bother spending any time on launching a store. Over 99% of people that go the cheap hosting + PayPal + WP plugins route for their ecommerce store have closed shop within 6 months. If you aren't going to take the advice of people that are successful in this market you may as well just quit before you begin and save yourself a ton of heartache and wasted time!

Sorry to be so blunt and to the point, but I am truly trying to help you here. If you are seriously trying to use GoDaddy hosting for an ecommerce store, you're clearly not equipped to make this decision and move at this point.

Wow, lots of conflicting views regarding wordpress eCommerce and PCI compliance.

I have to apologize guys, I didn't mean to disregard anyone's advice or come off as a jerk. The only reason I wanted to stay with GoDaddy is because the store owner already signed up for a "merchant account hosting package" and I didn't want to have her cancel it. (I already had to talk her out of a weebly account and not using GoDaddy's website builder to make the store)

I won't use GoDaddy hosting. But I would like to dig a little deeper into wordpress and PCI compliance.
Thanks for the feedback guys.

I'm starting to think BigCommerce or Shopify is the better decision for a first time small eCommerce store.

@rsykes - as OnlineStoreHelp has pointed out you are not very well informed on the subject of PCI compliance. The solutions (like woo) are NOT the issue and of course they aren't "illegal" to use. The store owner / business owner is the one at fault if they are collecting sensitive info on their site and their site is not compliant.

@maxamillion125 - A PCI compliant, hosted solution is certainly the way to go, ESPECIALLY for a first time store owner. Creating a website is a lot of work and the last thing you need to be worrying about is whether your store is secure or not!

Dave, so we should choose a hosted solution and then start looking for themes? What if BigCommerce or shopify doesn't have the theme I want? I've already found the theme I want to use but its not on BigCommerce or Shopify.
Mountain Creek

Forrest,

This list of WP shop themes might be of help to you.

Good luck,

Steve

So even if I have someone design my eCommerce store using the theme I've picked and add a shopping cart it still won't be as good as a hosted shopping cart solution? Can I have someone from freelancer.com or even here?? design my hosted shopping cart eCommerce store to look similar to Mountain Creek? Is that the way I should go?
Thanks for the help guys

WordPress plugins is an ideal choice to handle the exact website you require. Due to its simplicity and ease to implement as well as availability of several plugins, WordPress makes a great platform to achieve what you desire at very affordable rate.

I would like to thank all the respondents in this post. I am in the process of building an eCommerce site around fishing tackle. My current draft set up is wordpress front end to handle articles, vidoe and images and then oscommerce to handle the shopping cart.

The posts here made me consider my security options and for that I thank you.

Regards

James

James,

Wordpress is a really great starting point, and should get you where you need to go. If you find yourself fighting to get the look and feel that you want, I've had excellent results hiring someone who knows .css to tweak it to my liking. Once you find a wordpress theme with the features you are looking for, you can tweak the look to look pretty much exactly how you want it by hiring a VA to edit the .css, and possibly hiring a graphic designer to supply the graphics which will the .css coder will put in your site.

Sound expensive? It's not - I'm just getting my website redone as we speak, and already it looks much improved with only about 5 hours billed so far at $6.66 /hr. Getting graphics done might cost you $50 - $250 depending on what you want done, and a VA might spend say 5 - 10 hours doing the tweaking in .css so all told, you might be out $100 - $300 to get a custom look and feel.

Also, personally it's really great to have a VA for the wordpress administration who can make changes to my site for me if I get stuck, or track down/fix a misbehaving plugin etc. I spent an hour trying to get a sidebar to center correctly with some graphics before I gave up and handed to my VA who fixed it for me in about 10 minutes and then showed me what I was doing wrong.

Anyway, if you're interested in this sort of thing, hit me up and I can give you the contact info for the VA working on my site, or I can tell you how you can find your own VA to do graphics / .css / or just help you set your wordpress site up if you've never done that before.

Good luck!

Jonathan

in my opinion, you can find best E-commerce wordpress theme in this site:
E-commerce Themes | Templatic | Wordpress Online Store Themes

This is a totally viable option.

Personally, I use WooCommerce, an SSL from GoDaddy and a hosting account from MediaTemple.net.

I prefer Stripe as a credit card processor because it integrates seamlessly and has lower rates than most other processors.

As long as you have a good SSL, you don't need to worry too much about security. Still, you'll need a blacklist, something like WP Vault, and the like.

Other than that, you're golden.