There are many reasons why people are saying that PHPurchase is the best ecommerce shopping cart for your WordPress store. Here are are few of the highlights.

  • Use the full power of WordPress to customize your store
  • Unbelievably flexible design options
  • Sell digital and physical products
  • Recurring payments for subscriptions, memberships, and payment plans.
  • Easy PCI Compliance – Safe and Secure
  • Extremely fast and efficient
  • Fully integrated shopping experience
  • Backed by prompt and professional support

The Full Power Of WordPress for Ecommerce

PHPurchase is not the only WordPress ecommerce plugin available but it is unique in the way it let’s you take advantage of the full power of WordPress to configure your store anyway you like it. Whether you have 2 products or 200 products, with PHPurchase you can set up your store any way you like.

Organize Your Store With Custom Post Types

Many ecommerce systems force you to display your products in a grid or list them by category. But, if you only sell a small number of products, that format doesn’t make any sense. With PHPurchase, you can use the full power of the WordPress editor to configure the layout of your site anyway you like. You simply place an “Add To Cart” button anywhere on any page or post you want. You can put as many products on a page as you want. Take advantage of WordPress custom post types introduce in WordPress 3.0 and set up a special page layout for your products.

Organize With Custom Taxonomies

Taxonomies may be a confusing word but it is just a way to group things. Up until WordPress 3.0 the taxonomies WordPress used were Tags and Categories. Now, WordPress allows you to create your own taxonomies to further categorize your content. WordPress provides a very robust editor and powerful content organization features giving you unbelievably flexible design options with PHPurchase.

For a more detailed review of the custom taxonomies in WordPress including an example of how you can use custom taxonomies in an example T-Shirt store, read The Essential Guide to WordPress 3.0 Custom Taxonomies. Another excellent resource for learning about Custom Taxonomies is Introducing WordPress 3 Custom Taxonomies where you will find a detailed tutorial on how to set up custom taxonomies to organize content about computers. This article goes into setting up multi-level taxonomies for even more specific control organizing your content. Since PHPurchase let’s you put products on any page or post, it’s easy to set up your store with products categories in any format you want.

Sell Digital & Physical Products with WordPress

Use PHPurchase to sell any sort of digital product you want – MP3 music files, PDF books, Spreadsheets, Software, etc. PHPurchase will protect your digital files so that it is impossible to access them without getting them through PHPurchase. You can specify how many times you want your buyers to be able to download your product and you never have to worry about anyone sharing their download link or directly linking to your digital products.

Of course, you can also sell physical products or services. Optionally collect shipping information, charge tax by state, zip code, or zip code ranges. Once an order is placed you can assign internal labels to your orders such as “new”, “shipped” or “canceled” to keep track of the status of your orders.

Recurring Payments For Subscriptions and Payment Plans

No other WordPress shopping cart makes it this easy to set up recurring payments. Using either Authorize.net or the Quantum Gateway, with PHPurchase you can set up payments for ongoing services like web hosting, or monthly contracts with your clients. Specify how often you want to bill and the amount you want to charge. You can even set up free trial periods. Just specify how long you want the trial period to be, then PHPurchase will start billing your client’s credit card after the free trial has ended.

Easy PCI Compliance

PHPurchase never stores any credit card information in your WordPress database. Instead, PHPurchase will use either the Authorize.net Customer Information Manager or the Quantum Gateway Secure Vault to store all of the sensitive billing information. This makes PCI Compliance easy since you are not storing any sensitive information on your own server. In addition to that, PHPurchase passes the McAfee Security Test for PCI compliance.

Extremely Fast and Efficient

PHPurchase does not clutter your WordPress database with any unnecessary information. PHPurchase does not make it’s own Posts or Pages for each product, there are no heavy image gallery scripts, and only the products that are currently being rendered on the screen are pulled from the database. Since you use the full power of WordPress to design and organize your store, you are free to pick the exact image gallery plugin that works for your needs or simply place images in your page or post using the standard WordPress editor features. If you are looking for an easy and delightful way to add an image gallery to your WordPress store, take a look at either WordPress Lightbox 2 plugin or the NextGEN Gallery plugin.

Why Is PHPurchase Better Than Just Using PayPal

At first glance, it may seem like PHPurchase is not much different than simply placing PayPal Buy Now buttons on your website. PHPurchase, however, offers many benefits over just using PayPal alone. Of course, you can still let your customers pay with their PayPal account when using PHPurchase but you can also take credit cards right on your own site using PayPal Pro, Authorize.net, Quantum Gateway, or the eProcessing Network.

In addition to being able to offer multiple payment methods, PHPurchase gives your customers a fully integrated shopping experience. When using PayPal without PHPurchase, every time a customer adds a product to their cart they are either sent to the PayPal website or a pop-up window appears. This is confusing, introduces complexity to the buying experience, dramatically increases cart abandonment rates, and decreases conversion rates. With PHPurchase, your buyers stay on your site all the way up to the point where they are ready to check out. Only then do they go to the PayPal website to Pay. Also, you can accept credit cards directly on your own Checkout page if you also have a PayPal Pro account or another payment gateway account such as with Authorize.net.

PHPurchase Let’s You Offer Coupon Codes and Promotions

Offer dollar off or percentage off coupons. Set minimum cart values that must be exceeded before the coupon applies. For example, with PHPurchase it is easy to offer 10% off all orders over $50. Or offer Free Shipping on all orders over $50. PayPal Website Payments Standard (without using PHPurchase) does not offer the ability to accept coupon codes or promotional discounts. With PHPurchase, however, you can offer a variety of different types of coupons and discounts. Then, when checking out, PHPurchase will automatically adjust the amounts in your buyer’s shopping cart so that they can checkout with PayPal and still use the coupons and promotions you offer. Without PHPurchase you would not be able to offer coupons to your customers.

Backed By Prompt, Professional Support

Perhaps the best feature of PHPurchase is that it is backed by friendly and prompt support. We constantly monitor our Get Satisfaction Customer Support Forum and can usually provide an answer within an hour during normal business hours. We will also help troubleshoot issues that you may encounter with your theme. We frequently find that WordPress themes have jQuery conflicts or Javascript errors and we can help you hunt down and fix those problems. Or, if you get stumped with some CSS styling problem, we can help with that as well. Also, keep in mind that we do custom WordPress development. So if you need a custom plugin, theme, or if you would like us to design and build a WordPress ecommerce store and train you on how to manage it, we can do that too. Just let us know how we can help.

Money Back Guarantee

We know that sometimes you just need to try something out before you are sure if it’s going to meet your needs. That’s why we offer a complete 60 day money back guarantee. If PHPurchase does not work for you for any reason, just let us know and we will refund 100% of your money.