Running an Ecommerce Store or a Subscription Membership Website
There are a lot of ways to ‘skin a cat’. If you need an ecommerce store or a subscription membership website there are a lot of ways to do it using WordPress and WordPress plugins.
Each WordPress plugin supports a certain limited feature set for supporting functionality that you may need, now or in the future…and the features for these plugins are typically growing all the time.
Knowing which plugins to use to get support for the features that you want is critical.
Do you need?
- PayPal Standard?
- PayPal Payments Pro?
- A Shopping Cart?
- Real-time Shipping Rates?
- Digital Downloads?
- Premium Membership Only Content?
- MailChimp, Aweber, ConstantContact, CampaignMonitor Email Auto-Responder Integration?
- Inventory Tracking?
- Sequential Content?
- Coupons?
- Ticket / Event Sales?
- Product Variations affecting selling price?
- Custom Registration Fields?
- Blog Posting from your public website based on roles?
- Authorize.net, CDG Commerce / Quantum Gateway, ClickBank?
- iDevAffiliate, InfusionSoft, Cydec, WordPress Affiliate Platform integration?
- Offline / Manual Orders?
What combinations of these do you need? You need to know which plugins will work together to get the functionality you need.
That’s where SiteSubscribe comes in…we’re the WordPress experts. We know what works and what doesn’t, and how best to ‘skin the cat’ to get the features your after.
Feature Support by WordPress Shopping Cart and Membership Plugins
We put together this chart/spreadsheet to make it a little easier to see what plugins support what features. Yes, we know it’s complicated, that’s why you need us…so in reality you probably just need to talk to us.
| ECOMMERCE | MEMBERSHIP | FORMS | |||
| Plugin: |
eStore |
PHPurchase |
S2Member |
WishList Member |
Gravity Forms |
| Upcharge | $99 | Pro=$129 | $99 | ||
| Ecommerce | |||||
| products / Buy Now | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Limited |
| product image/description within plugin | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| digital downloads | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Limited |
| shopping cart | Yes | Yes | |||
| track inventory | Yes | ||||
| Real-time UPS shipping rates | Yes | ||||
| coupons | Yes | Yes | Pro | ||
| product variations/options affecting cost | Yes | ||||
| quantity discounts | Yes | ||||
| ticket sales / event registration payment | Yes | ||||
| Subscription Membership | |||||
| protected content | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| drip/sequential content | No | Yes | |||
| custom registration fields | Yes | Yes | |||
| protected RSS feed | Yes | ||||
| sneak peak content | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| folder protection | Yes | ||||
| Payment Gateways & Shopping Carts | |||||
| Paypal Standard | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Paypal Payments Pro | Yes | Pro | Yes | ||
| Authorize.net | Yes | Yes | |||
| CDG Commerce | Yes | ||||
| ClickBank | Yes | ||||
| InfusionSoft | $99 | ||||
| 1ShoppingCart | $99 | ||||
| Premium WebCart | $99 | ||||
| Red Oak Cart | $99 | ||||
| eProcessing Network | Yes | ||||
| offline / manual orders | Yes | Yes | |||
| Integration | |||||
| MailChimp | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Aweber | Yes | Yes | |||
| CampaignMonitor | Yes | ||||
| ConstantContact | Yes | ||||
| GetResponse | Yes | ||||
| User Registration | Yes | Yes | |||
| FreshBooks | Yes | ||||
| Create blog posts from public website | Yes | ||||
| Cydec | Yes | ||||
| Infusion | Yes | ||||
| iDevAffiliate | Yes | Yes | |||
| NextGen Gallery | Yes | ||||
| WordPress Affiliate Platform | Yes | Yes | |||
| Gravity Forms | Yes | Yes | |||
