I’ve been using WP-E-Commerce and customising it quite heavily for some time but it’s great to have a quick and easy way to see other options.

Actually, I was not referring to “internationalisation” (which means “You can make the whole thing run in your language”, as I understand it) but to true “multi language” capabilities, which I would define as “I can activate multiple languages at the same time, which the customer can select in the frontend.”

Obviously a feature that the WordPress core still lacks, but the qTranslate plugin has become kind of a de facto standard – at least it would be not very hard to make any plugin work with qTranslate, but the people from the “e-commerce” plugin don’t seem eager to do it, while the programmer of “Shopp” said, he would do it some time in the future.

On the other hand, the WP-team itself seems to be thinking about integrating something like qTranslate into the core. When that happends, it might make more plugin coders actually support it.

Until then I will stick with ZenCart.

Thanks for that remarkable feature list. It really helps people

Matthias

P.S: I installed the Zingiri-Plugin, but I didn’t like the way it “integrates” the stand-alone software into WP. The shop-admin is completely separate from the wp-admin and it’s integrated into the frontend – which screws up the template sometimes. I didn’t look much further, but someone really interested might do and find it useful nonetheless. After all it IS a feature-rich shop plugin for WP.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/zingiri-web-shop

From their website I take it that this would be the first and so far only solution for a truly multilingual shopping website.

I’ll try it these days…

Question though, during your investigation of the plugins did any of them offer quantity discounts? For example 1 for 10, 3 for 25.

I am currently stumbling through all of these and as far as I can tell, none of them offer this feature — which is a drag.

They do offer internationalisation

Not included, but as Add-on via (for example),
http://www.ideal-simulator.nl/ideal-for-wordpress-and-e-commerce-plugin.html

it’s a plug-and-play component for both the Easy (free) and Professional edition of iDEAL payment gateway.

Thanks for this comparison table. It’s helpful!

One quick alteration: for the “Product Search” row, the WP e-Commerce plugin does not allow for product search in the free version. That’s only available if you buy the Gold version.

I think it’s a serious drawback compared to the competition, but as the developers might say, you “gotta pay the bills somehow.”

Cheers,

Mr. B

You’ve missed a few things off for eShop:
Product tags – uses WP Tags
Themes – available, but not free.
Image upload – Via WP.
Related products functionality – use WP Tags?
CSV (or other) export – download of orders is available. – as is products(see google base)
Google Base integration – well it is there…
WPMU compatible as well.

I’ve tried to make eShop as easy to install as possible, and as accessible as I can.