Monetize the Online Business Reef and Make Money
eCommerce is a perfect thing to develop while you are selling your products on sites like eBay and Amazon you would do well to setup an eCommerce site that hooks into your WordPress site. There are quite a few good ones and we recommend WooCommerce, Magento, and OpenCart. They are easy to setup and you can use a variety of payment options like your own merchant account, Paypal, and Amazon.
OpenCart is an open source eCommerce solution that is free to use and integrates well with any WordPress installation. OpenCart is a turn-key ready “out of the box” shopping cart solution. You simply install, select your template, add products and you’re ready to start accepting orders.
It has order management and multiple payment gateways already built in and we provide lifetime free support and free software updates.
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Magento is now an eBay/Paypal company and is focusing more on enterprise commerce development. But they do have a commerce platform for medium and large sized business that is robust and scalable. They also specialize in a fashion specific commerce platform and have an open source edition. While they used to be very strong in WordPress and and easy to setup within that framework they have really been replaced by our next recommended eCommerce solution.
WooCommerce is the most popular WordPress eCommerce plugin. And it’s available for free. Packed full of features, perfectly integrated into your self-hosted WordPress website. It integrates nicely into most WordPress installations and has modules for payment, shipping, and tax. It is fast becoming the go to solution for setting up a quick eCommerce solution for your website. Whether you sell t-shirts, home made candles, or complex machines you can do a lot with this program.
