Comments on: WordPress Ecommerce Plugin – PHPurchase

By: ThemeDigital

ThemeDigital — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:57:41 +0000

@andre – you sure can, PHPurchase can be used for both digital and physical products

By: andre

andre — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:49:39 +0000

hello,

can i use the plugin for my restaurant and collecting orders/payment online in holland, eg ideal payment, paypal?

By: CoreBloggers

CoreBloggers — Wed, 12 May 2010 11:57:53 +0000

Very useful plugin for those who wants to start an e-commerce website.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:48:59 +0000

Thanks for the input. I’ll probably start with just Paypal, but in the future may use a gateway for payment processing. That side of things is all new to me. I’ve narrowed it down to these two plugins. The difference in price really isn’t that great, although the author of the eStore plugin offers a package discount. I’m definitely using the affiliate plugin, so I am just wondering if it would be better to stick with the same plugin author for both. I know PHPurchase is integrated with the affiliate plugin as well, but sometimes 3rd party integration isn’t as clean and easy. I’ll have to play around with the demos more on the two sites. Thanks for all the info on PHPurchase!

By: ThemeDigital

ThemeDigital — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:30:56 +0000

@Dan – well they’re both easy to install and use; and some features are different, like eStore has Aweber integration for example.

However, if you’re only selling digital, I’d go for PHPurchase for one strong reason: more payment gateways (this is very important if you don’t want to use Paypal or 2Checkout)

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:28:09 +0000

How does this compare with the eStore plugin? I see PHPurchase integrates with the affiliate plugin from the maker of eStore, but if all I am selling is digital goods is there any reason to choose this over eStore (for less $$)?

By: Faustine Tan

Faustine Tan — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:55:31 +0000

So does the IPN integration serves to alert the customer with the order details indicated in the email it send automatically?

By: ThemeDigital

ThemeDigital — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:15:52 +0000

PHPurchase is integrated with the IPN from PayPal so, yeah, they do have notifications

By: Faustine Tan

Faustine Tan — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:55:25 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

Not necessary bank transfer option need to have relationship with the local bank, as long as there is a way to invoice the customers, and get them to pay manually and I’d have to coordinate manually.

For a start I’m going to use Paypal for credit card payments, and as I’m in Singapore, I’m not sure I can use any of those payment gateways you mentioned… which cost a bomb in itself.. especially Authorize.net.

Does it have Email Notification of Order/Invoice for the customer? I think Shopp has a simple notification via email. but PHPurchase doesn’t seem to have one at all..

By: ThemeDigital

ThemeDigital — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:20:50 +0000

@Faustine

I’ve personally chosen PHPurchase because it easier to use and it also has payment gateways functionality built in. So you could use Authorize.net or QuantumGateway (recommended) without paying for an add-on (example: Shopp requires you buy a 25$ add-on for authorize.net).

Bank transfer is harder to implement, as it requires a lot of “off-site” implementations – I’m not sure, but I think you need to be in a relationship with the bank to implement such a feature.

Anyway, I’d definitely go for PHPurchase for the easy-to-use system, powerful backend, multiple payment processors, growing community and excellent support.

Cheers!