Selling your own products through your wordpress blog has never been easier. There are some free and easy to use shopping cart plugins allow you to sell your products and services online through your WordPress website.
A month ago, I was searching for a WordPress shopping cart plugin (software) to build an online store to promote and sell my products and services. After hours-long search, I found some solutions, that could solve my problem. Here are the 10 best ways to add a shopping cart to your Wordpress blog I have found.

WP Auctions

No more listing fees, seller fees, final value fees, gallery fees or any other type of fees when you use this handy plugin. This innovative ecommerce plugins for WordPress allows you to host auctions on your blog or website easy and free. Don’t forget to register your plugin with WP Auctions Live. It will help generate soem traffic for your website. One item at a time in the cart is your only drawback to this plugin.

Artpal

Artpal is a free wordpress shopping cart plugin for artists who wanna sell their work online. It allows easy PayPal integration with just the address. The plugin offers real time sales updates as soon as the item sells and disables it so that it’s not sold twice.

FatFreeCart

No generating or pasting code using this plugin because it works within the post editor. Incorporate the add-to-cart feature within your blog posts. Note also that it integrates with PayPal and Google Checkout.

Quick Shop

Quick shop adds a sidebar widget that shows the user what they currently have in the cart and allows them to remove the items. A TinyMCE button allows you to add products to your posts or pages. In addition, it provides a checkout page.

eStore

This plugin gives you fully-automated selling capability of your digital products. Deliver products without directing buyers to a webpage to download; they’ll receive an encrypted download link in their email. Best of all, it’s integrated with the WordPress Affiliate software.

WP e-Commerce

This wordpress application provides full-feature shopping cart functionality and allows for one-page checkout, which makes it easy to sell things like ebooks, mp3s, clothing, crafts and more. Don’t make site visitors move from page to page in order to purchase a product. Give them a simple, easy-to-use site that they’ll gladly return to.

WP-osCommerce

This shopping cart plugin for wordpress is a modified version of the popular ecommerce solution osCommerce. It allows you to integrate osCommerce with existing wordpress website. The plugin displays latest products, random products, top 10 best sellers and much more directly in your wordpress blog. It also adds a dynamic widget in your blogs sidebar to display the products.

YAK for WordPress

YAK Is an open source shopping cart plugin for wordPress that turns posts and pages ID into product ID and the post description to an item description.

MiniCart

Embed your shopping cart into your blog posts and use the plugin to ask for donations to your favorite cause in the process.

Are PayPal

This unique Wordpress plugin allows monitizing wordpress blog content using Paypal. It allows you to set the Post or Page to contain hidden content. The content might be set as hidden for unregistered users and visible for registered. In a similar way the content can be set as hidden for unregistered-unpayed users and visible for registered-paid users. The search engines will only see the visible content. The administrator can grant the users access to content for certain payment.

eShop

This wordpress plugin gives you the ability to add a PayPal powered store to your wordpress site
Use your pages or posts to create new products. It allows you to download data and upload downloadable products. Some other features include the ability to list multiple products and create an add-to-cart function. Also eShop offers a number of payments options that include- Authorize.net, Paypal, Payson, eProcessingNetwork, Webtopay and Cash/Cheque.

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