If you are an online seller and would like to use wordpress to sell your ebooks/products, here is the list of ecommerce plugins that will enable you to setup an ecommerce site in just few clicks.

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WP e-Commerce
The WP e-Commerce shopping cart plugin for WordPress is an easy to use fully featured shopping cart application suitable for selling your products, services, and or fees online. The plugin is integrated with Paypal/Google Checkout and costs $40 (additional modules can be bought).

Perfect for selling Bands & Record Labels/Clothing Companies/Crafters & Artists/Books, DVDs & MP3 files.

shopp Plugin

shopp is an e-commerce plugin that adds a feature-rich online store to your WordPress-powered website or blog. Get your store up and running in minutes. The plugin price starts from $55 and developer license is available for $299 (addon modules, like integration with HSBC/FedEx/UPS etc are available for $25 each).

DPD-Cart eCommerce Plugin

The DPD-Cart Plugin is an ecommerce solution to sell downloads with DPD from your Wordpress (2.8+) blog. This plugin requires an active DPD account to use.

The DPD-Cart plugin connects via an API to the DPD system to automatically pull your available storefronts and storefront products in to your Wordpress blog. From there, you can specify which storefront to associate with your Wordpress blog, add a view cart / checkout button to the Wordpress sidebar using a provided widget, and insert DPD add-to-cart buttons to any Wordpress post or page by simply selecting the product you want from your list of configured and available products.

eShop

eShop is an accessible shopping cart plugin for WordPress, packed with various features, including integration with Google Base (for data creation), WPMU, utilizes wordpress pages to create product listings and integrates with Authorize.net, Paypal, Payson, eProcessingNetwork, Webtopay, iDEAL and Cash/Cheque.

Quick Shop
Quick Shop is a free plugin that installs a Sidebar Widget which shows the items in the cart and allows you to remove them, as well as allowing you to place tags in your posts which generate a form button to add products to the cart.

The current codebase works only for AU currency though.

ArtPal

If you are an artist, ArtPal is meant for you. ArtPal is a free (GPL) Wordpress plugin, originally written for Artists, to seamlessly integrate PayPal with their Wordpress blogs so that they can sell their work online. The plugin offers basic features like integration with paypal and real time sales updates.

Ecwid Shopping Cart

Ecwid is free full-fledged shopping cart that can be easily add to any blog. It offers the performance and flexibility you need, with none of the hassles you don’t. The plugin supports integration with Paypal/Google Checkout/UPS/FedEx etc and is quite heavy on AJAX.

Open Source YAK Plugin

YAK is an open source shopping cart plugin for WordPress. It associates products with weblog entries, so the post ID also becomes the product code. It supports both pages and posts as products, handles different types of product through categories, and provides customisable purchase options (cheque or deposit, basic credit card form, basic Google Checkout integration, standard PayPal integration, PayPal Payments Pro, and Authorize.net).

The recent release adds a lot of useful feature like adding threshold based promotions/discount override etc.

Other plugins include

• Zingiri Web Shop
• MiniCart
• WP-ZackZack

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What’s important to note here is that most of these plugins will have limited functionality and if you need a complex product, it’s advisable to go custom development route.

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