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Best e-commerce site for hundreds of digital products?

by mrcouchpotato
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I'm putting together a website to sell digital products. I'll have well over 500 of these products when I'm done. Right now I'm trying to use a Wordpress Blog with the WP E-Commerce plugin.

It works ok but it seems like the more products I add, the slower the site gets. Plus there seems to be some bugs with multiple page categories that I can't figure out.

So I'm thinking of scrapping this and using something else.

Does anyone here have a store that sells lots of different digital products that they're happy with? If so do you mind telling me what you're using?

Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Krisism
    Hey Mrcouchpotato,

    I personally enjoy Plimus for any e-commerce needs, but I believe PayPal might even have what you need. Check out Plimus E-Commerce and PayPal, they should give you something efficient and reliable that's not self-hosted.

    Good luck
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  • Profile picture of the author Andyhenry
    I usually use Actinic for product sites with lots of products, it's great for physical products but you can probably get something a lot cheaper for digital products using a php based ecommerce script. I've used some in the past, but not for a while so wouldn't have a direct recommendation.
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  • Profile picture of the author Private Label Ebook Shop
    My site contains over 1200 digital products and is run on the Pinnacle Cart script. The script is not cheap by any means. Although the script has served me well for a few years now.

    I have also tested WP and found the same issues you have encountered. I also tried Joomla which is capable of managing digital product purchases but was not happy with the administration backend and reporting.

    I am currently in the process of launching another digital product store based on Drupal and the UberCart ecommerce plugin. During initial testing it had exceeded my expectations and has a great community for support and a huge selection of addons to enable the script to do anything you could imagine. If you do decide to use Drupal and the UberCart ecommerce plugin I strongly suggest utilizing and enabling the Boost cache plugin once the site is ready to be launched. Just with this plugin alone we found our site served pages 60-70% quicker. Should also mention Drupal has plugins available for blogs, forums, etc. Everything you could want in one package. Drupal is also open source which means its free. And like I noted above the community support is excellent.
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    • Profile picture of the author Wade Watson
      If economy is a factor, I think the open source OS Commerce system beats the WP E-Commerce plugin quite a lot. It's a stand-alone e-store system, but can be integrated with WordPress using a plugin.

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  • Profile picture of the author I.M.Retired
    I'm looking at some options as well. One that has caught my interest is KAGI - discover your online store's potential - offering a complete range of store solutions, online order pages, shopping carts and payment processing

    I was wondering if anyone here has had any experience with this site?
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  • Profile picture of the author Sheila Atwood
    Take a look at prestashop.com - it is a heavy duty WordPress e-commerce theme.

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    • Profile picture of the author lr89
      I am with krisism, if you are trying to sell digital goods Plimus has very interesting solutions for payment methods.
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      • Profile picture of the author mrcouchpotato
        Thanks for your replies everyone.

        I ended up finding a cool open source shopping cart system called OpenCart. So far it does everything I need and the support is very good.
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