I love Wordpress and I never cease to be amazed at the great capability Wordpress has as a CMS. I have quite a bit of experience working with Joomla and other CMS’s and work with clients all the time who have worked with anything from custom proprietary CMS systems to canned out of the box solutions like Drupal and they all agree that Wordpress is easier and more capable than them all. Now, realizing that’s a pretty bold statement, you should give Wordpress a try if you aren’t using it already – it totally rocks.
Why am I telling you all about the wonders of using Wordpress as a CMS? Because without these capabilities and the superb talent of the theme developer community, awesome themes like the one I’m about to discuss just would not be possible.
eShop from Templatic’s ever growing portfolio of stylin’ themes is their latest ecommerce solution. This isn’t their first swing at an ecommerce theme, and it’s quite apparent in the layout, design and functionality.
When you arrive to the theme, you are presenting with a slick carousel of featured products that have the capability to manually scroll to the next or previous product. A “special offer” box is dedicated to the right of that, still in the top.
Below that, you see a grid of products.
Each of the individual product pages have a “related items” section which works great for exposing other items to your potential buyers.
The main navigation along the top is great because it has drop-down functionality. This is something that I haven’t seen in other ecommerce themes, but in Wordpress using menus of this type is almost as common as having vaseline in your bathroom. It goes without saying that this does mounds for keeping your products organized.
Feature List (from the theme developer’s site)
- Different modes of Shopping Cart – You may sell anything – tangible or intangible using our themes. You have an option to create your website in any mode.
- Shopping Cart – Like the standard shopping cart that you see on other e-commerce websites. You may choose to have “add to cart” mode and let the users add all the items they want and then lead them to checkout or, you can have “buy now” mode and take them straight to checkout when they select a product.
- Digital Shop – If you are selling digital product of any kind, this is a perfect option for you. Are you selling icons, digital art, PDF, e-books, scripts or any other kind of digital goodies? Select this option and when a user makes a purchase, they will have an account generated at your site and they can download their purchase any time. You don’t have to worry about third party digital delivery sites.
- Catalog mode – Maybe you only want to showcase your items and don’t want to sell it online? Simply choose this mode and you will have “send inquiry” button instead of buy now / add to cart. Visitors thus, can send an inquiry on the products they like.
- Manage Products – Add / Edit / Delete products are as easy as you create a wordpress blog post. You have a custom panel where-in you can edit the product description, different parameters, upload product images etc. real easy.
- Order Management – Depending upon the settings from your admin panel, you can manage the order – approve, process or cancel / reject an order.
- Shipping Options – As an admin, you can choose Free, Flat rate; Weight or Price based shipping option for your eShop. What’s more you can even set free shipping for particular items in case you’ve set other option for your eShop.
- Multiple Payment Gateways – You have PayPal, Autorize.net, Google Checkout, WorldPay, bank transfer and Cash on Delivery as payment gateway options. Choose the gateway you prefer.
- Manage Tax – You may specify overall tax percentage that applies to all your products and, you may choose to leave individual products tax free
- Grid view / List view – Whenever you are browsing the product collection, you have an option to see the products in list view or grid view. It’s built-in by default.
- Guest Checkout – Wish to provide an option to your users to checkout without registration? No problems. Simply activate the guest checkout option from theme admin panel and your buyers will not to register. They simply provide their email address and we create the logins for them. If admin wants, they can choose to send/not send their logins to them.
- User registration – Users may register on your site or, they will be taken to registration page on the checkout procedure. They will have their own user area where they can keep track of their order, manage profile and download purchased digital products.
- Bulk Upload ( csv ) – Using another shopping cart solution for your eShop and want to switch to our eShop themes? No worries. You can export your data from there in .csv files and import it in your wordpress installation when you use our eShop themes. (sample .csv file included with the theme)
- Coupon codes
- Admin can generate coupon codes for occasional sales promotion.
- Product Images – Built in multiple product image upload. Uploaded images are auto re-sized to fit various thumbnails required throughout the site. Also the product zoom functionality is built it.
- Other parameters – Specifying Tax, weight, color(s), size(s) are easy. Also you may specify different prices for different size/colors just in case.
- Specify product size(s), color(s), and other miscellaneous feature -You may specify Size chart if applied, When viewing a product Similar Products are automatically displayed, Several additional custom widgets are built in such as customer support, Subscribe, socialize, promo banners etc. that you can use for your eShop website.
- Affiliate Module – As an admin, you may choose to activate affiliate program where your customers/others can signup as an affiliate partner and start promoting your products. They will be able to track their affiliate data in real time, and as an admin, you will be able to export/check affiliate reports easily. A great way to boost your sales.
- Blog – Of course the themes come with blog, pages etc. functionality with some page templates so you can have a blog for your website.
Pricing
Single License Purchase (one use): $65
Developer License (use this theme all you want): $99:
Annual all theme access to all themes: $279
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