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In this article, I will reveal the best 6 WordPress eCommerce / shopping cart plugins. The best thing about WordPress is that it has features that can easily adapt numerous plugins without any difficulty. Its versatility is amazing; you can literally turn your personal blog to a business blog where you can market online, with the click of a mouse!

With several options available, such as Paypal integration to eCommerce services, you are assured to get exactly what you want with WordPress blog.

Allow me to share with you the top 6 eCommerce / shopping cart plugins that I highly recommend to those who plans to establish their own online shopping business. These plugins include:

1. WordPress eCommerce Plugin (Free)
With over half a million downloads, you are rest assured that this plugin is effective and stable, as it is secured, making it a perfect choice for your starting or growing online business. The plugin is integrated with WordPress so it is easy to download and activate, and because it is also integrated with WordPress Update System, every time you upload a new product, it will automatically update, letting the people know of its existence.

2. YAK for WordPress (Free)
An open source shopping cart plugin that associates products with blog entries, making the Post ID a product code. This plugin create products from either posts or pages and can handle various types of products through categories, all of which are downloadable. Customers have a variety of options for purchasing; can either be through cheque or deposit, basic credit card form, and Paypal Payments Pro, among others.

3. PHPurchase (Premium)
This plugin is quite affordable, with a price that’s starts at $49, you can have a highly organized plugin that creates an entire catalogue of products with custom variables, and a powerful dashboard-based order management system. PHPurchase is a hard working plugin that will guarantee your success in online business.

4. ShopperPress (Premium)
ShopperPress is one amazing plugin to mull over when considering an online business. It is packed with all the necessary features to run a shopping business online including custom variables, promotional amenities such as coupon codes and discounts. Most importantly, it is Adsense-ready with dedicated advertising slots, and shipping/tax options. ShopperPress includes full support for Google Webmaster Tools, allowing you to track your individual product clicks and visitors. The best thing is, it doesn’t require programming skills with its easy-to-use web based admin area, and offers a lifetime free support and upgrades!

5. WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin (Premium)
This plugin offers a lot of affiliate and digital product support, as well as various payment and product options to choose from.  Packed with an all-in-one feature that an online business requires, not a thing is missing. In a decent amount you can start running your business in no time!

6. Shop Plugin (Premium) – this plugin offers flexibility of customization tools, allowing production studios and power users to modify every aspect of shopping experience. This plugin looks pretty amazing but I will not recommend it to the beginners. Even if it looks very promising, this plugin is definitely not the easiest plugin to use. I have tried it myself and I can say that it is not easy to customize.

Like I said, there are some premium (paid) plugins I mentioned above. Since they are selling these plugins, they will be able to provide good features, support to you compare to the free plugin developer.

My personal recommendation to you: If you just started to setup a simple shopping cart system that using Paypal as payment process, you can try the free plugin. On the other hand, if you are serious in setting up a multiple payment processors, want better features, support and benefits, you should go for premium shopping cart plugin like ShopperPress. You’ll surprise that most of these plugins are inexpensive.