Starting your own online shop is one of the best ways to start making money online. Depending on what you are selling, you can earn a lot of money online with your own e-commerce business. And thanks to the power of WordPress platform, you don’t have to be a genius geeks to build your online shop. All you have to do is install WordPress and get your hands on a decent e-commerce WP theme. Thankfully, there are enough good, affordable WordPress E-commerce themes out there to help you get started.
Here are 20 e-commerce themes for WordPress to help you build your online shop fast:
Store Front: comes with two color schemes and is optimized for search engines. It’s ad friendly as well. Has an easy to customize front-page. Very stylish and clean.
e-Commerce Theme: a super clean online shop theme for WordPress that is easy to setup and quite versatile as well. It offers auto one click install, which will create a sample shop for you in no time. It even allows you to start your own affiliate program too.
ShopperPress: a clean and easy to install shopping cart theme for WordPress that comes with numerous styles and supports all kinds of payment systems. It’s SEO friendly too.
WPA Storefront: a flexible e-commerce solution for WordPress that has 8 styles and 7 color schemes for you to choose from. Very easy to customize too.
WP Store: enables you to take your offline business online or create an online store from scratch. It allows you to handle payment, manage inventory, create coupons, and manage shipping for customers.
Kidz Store: Kidz Store is a powerful WordPress e-commerce theme that enables you to start an e-store with WordPress fast. It’s an auto install theme that makes your job easy. Has tons of features to help you manage your online shop more effectively through WordPress.
eShop e-commerce theme: a sophisticated, clean theme for anyone who is planning to sell products online. You can manage your store easily from the back-end. Comes integrated with payment services.
Store E-commerce Theme: a very simple to use and flexible WordPress e-commerce theme that lets you add your products and start selling them online fast. It supports coupons, multiple shipping methods, and more. The powerful back-end makes managing things much easier. If you want to build your online shop with WordPress, this theme can come in handy.
Ecommerce Theme: one of the best WordPress Ecommerce themes around. It’s SEO friendly and allows you to add your own photos and set up your shop fast.
Emporium for WordPress: a very clean shopping cart WordPress theme that enables you to start a sophisticated online shop quickly. Makes it easy to manage your inventory and pick up affiliates for your business.
StorePress: a very flexible theme that lets you add your items easily and start making money online with e-commerce WordPress site. Very affordable too.
Market Theme: another simple shopping theme for WordPress. Set up WordPress, add this theme, add your items, and you are set to go. Very simple to deploy.
Viroshop: a pretty clean and decent looking store theme for WordPress. Supports PayPal and Google Checkout payments. Let’s you customize it to work with all aspects of your e-commerce business.
Classified Theme: not your average e-commerce theme. It’s designed to let you create your listing website where people can submit their items (like craigslist). You can also easily modify it to build your own online shop with WordPress.
Color Cart: one of my favorite e-commerce WordPress themes, Color Cart enables you to turn your blog into an e-commerce site instantly. It’s lightweight, well-designed, and easy to customize.
auctionTheme: auctionTheme lets you create your auction WordPress site and of course you can customize it to set up your shop as well. Either way, a great way to start building up your business.
folioShop: a very attractive theme that enables you to start selling your art work online without having to do too much work. It’s easy to deploy and dynamic.
Classipress: another cool listing theme for WordPress that lets you not only sell your own items but also ask others for a fee to sell their goods as well.
wpShop: wpShop is a colorful and flexible WordPress theme to set up your own ecommerce shop. You can easily add images to your online shop and start selling fast.
eGoods: comes with three different color themes and lets you set up shop online fast. The home page lets you feature your top products. And you can also promote your recently released products and bargains.
There you have it. If you are planning to create your online store with WordPress, you can’t go wrong with the above themes.
Your turn: did I miss anything? Please feel free to add your favorite marketplace themes below.
P.S. Don’t forget to check top eBay plugins to further enhance your shop.
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July 12, 2009
Thank you! I’ve been searching for an ecommerce theme. I appreciate the quick reviews!
July 13, 2009
I’ll write more comprehensive reviews on all of these. But If I included everything in one piece, it would take 30 pages
July 31, 2009
Good list but I would also like to include SimpleCart:
http://www.chris-wallace.com/2009/07/17/simplecartjs-a-free-wp-e-commerce-thematic-child-theme/
July 31, 2009
Wow. That’s a cool theme. Thank for the suggestion.
August 28, 2009
Awesome site! I had already spent 2 hours looking for just a ok ecomm solution, until I found this great list.
December 2, 2009
Also, check out PHPurchase, a relatively new WordPress E-Commerce Plugin. It’s easy to set up with screencast video tutorials and live chat with the developers if you run into problems. You can find the plugin at: http://www.PHPurchase.com and if there is anything I can do to help, just let me know. Thanks!
January 10, 2010
AHA Finally I find another classified theme. I was beginning to think Classipress had that part of the market domainted. Although both look quite the same. I also wish more of these kinds of themes were available but I guess they will be growing in popularity soon enough. Thanks.
August 6, 2010
Templatic themes rules here as well, they are the fastest growing company in the premium WordPress theme market. Amazing plans they are coming with.