What to look for

Not all e-commerce themes are developed the same way. As a webmaster, you should try to get your hands on a theme that looks professional, makes managing your inventory easier, and offers support for multiple payment system. Your theme should be as SEO-friendly as possible too. The update process should be as convenient as possible. Lastly, your e-commerce template should be built upon a secure code.

Here are 40 e-commerce themes for WordPress that look attractive and make your life as a business owner easier:

Storebox: comes ready to go out of the box. Supports multiple product types. It lets you handle tax and shipping easily. You can even start your own affiliate program with this theme.

Mazine WordPress Theme: a super attractive e-commerce theme for WP. It offers 6 color variations, a bunch of sliders, a whole lot more. It is ready to be translated too.

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.

eStore: a super sleek online shop theme for WordPress. It is very dynamic and can be used for all kinds of shops including clothes shops.

Shelflife: it is a clean, e-commerce theme based on WooCommerce platform. It has a responsive design and is easy to customize.

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.

Boutique Theme: great for small shops. Offers unlimited color schemes and automated thumbnail resizing. User/author ratings are supported too.

Sliding for WooCommerce: a clean and simple shop theme for WordPress. It is highly customizable. You get custom shortcodes and a powerful options panel.

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.

WooStore for WordPress: another elegant and highly customizable theme for WooCommerce. It uses custom post types to handle different content. The back end makes customizing your theme easier.

Sommerce Shop: optimized for the all powerful JigoShop plugin. It offers 60+ custom backgrounds and 10 custom headers. It supports all kinds of products.

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.

The Jewelry Shop: designed specifically for those of you aiming to build an online presence for your Jewelry shop. It is highly customizable and supports products with videos. It has a ton of custom widgets too.

Digital Box for WordPress: turns your website into an e-commerce store for digital goods. It supports various types of products. PayPal, 2Checkout, Authorize.net, Google Checkout, and WorldPay are supported too.

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.

Emporium for WooCommerce: not to be mistaken with the previous theme, this template has a responsive design and highly customizable homepage.

Storefront Edge: it has a beautiful homepage with 2 cool layouts. It offers Fancybox effect for all images. Your get 4 different Cufon fonts for your headings.

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.

The Clothes Shop: the perfect theme to start your online clothes shop with. It has 30 widget ready sections and 22 custom widgets. You can have a side-blog using this theme too.

Argentum: gives you everything you need to bring your small store online. It is optimized for mobile devices. Uses WooCommerce plugin.

Clean Cut: it gives your online store a gorgeous look. It offers sales analytics, shipping/tax support, and support for WooCommerce.

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.

Musician: designed for artists, Musician is a cool template to use to start selling your artwork.

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.

Storefront Elegance: an e-shop theme with a minimalist design. Its Options panel gives you control over the look of your site. You also get 4 templates.

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.

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.

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.

Sofa StockPhoto: want to sell your own photograph or start a business around stock photos? You can use this theme to get started with minimum investment up-front. It has a built-in deposit system. PayPal is integrated in it as well.

Acquisto: this is inspired by Etsy.com. It has a 3 column layout with two widgetized sidebars. It is compatible with Cart66 and Quixly.

Gridport: a super clean shop template that puts back on the products you are selling. It has a responsive design and is translation ready.

WP FlexiShop: a sleek theme that offers 3 different layouts and has 12 areas for your widgets. It supports tax and multiple payment systems. The checkout process is streamlined. Pretty impressive all around.

Storefront Designer: gives your online shop a beautiful look. You can show product or product categories on your homepage.

Bookoo: this theme is designed for book publishers. It supports PDF previews. Comes integrated with Google Maps.

Animal House: an e-commerce ready theme for pet businesses. It is compatible with Jigoshop. It has 12 custom widgets and is ready to be localized.

RGBStore: a simple but elegant shop theme for this platform. It has 3 color schemes, 6 page templates, and 2 sidebar positions.

There you have it. If you are planning to create your online store with WordPress, the above templates are worth checking out.

Your turn: did we 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.

(*updated: January 2012)

JobRoller is one of the best looking job listing themes that we have tested. It has 5 color schemes to choose from. The contrast of colors used in this theme make it look quite professional. You can change a lot of things right from the back-end without needing a developer to help you out.

JobRoller is more than just a simple job theme. It can handle all types of jobs and makes it easy for job candidates to filter through your listings to find the type of positions that work for them the best. It supports custom post types and taxonomies, so your blog stays separate from your job listings at all times.

JobRoller is perfect for paid job listings. It is not only compatible with PayPal, it can keep track of your transactions, saving you time to focus on other aspects of your business. This theme can be localized too, which means you are not just limited to English job listing sites.

I like the fact that this theme is social media friendly. It supports both Twitter and Facebook. ShareThis is integrated into this theme too. JobRoller can work for your ads, giving you another way to monetize your website.

JobRoller is the perfect theme for anyone interested in starting a job board. It’s attractive, easy to customize, social media friendly, and ready to go right off the bat. It can give your website a solid foundation for the future.

This theme allows your visitors to easily post their listings on your website fast. You can easily customize all aspects of this theme. You can change the currency or customize the fee. You can even customize your fee for each category. You can also use various languages and change currency for your ads. This theme support for 5 major currencies: EUR, GBP, AUD, USD, CAD.

I do like the fact that PayPal is well-integrated into this theme. You can easily charge folks without having to look for a credit processing service. You can also add your analytics code to your site on the admin page to track your traffic.

There are two features that I love about this theme. First, it shows your emails as an image, making it difficult for spammers to grab your e-mail address. Secondly, the theme auto-deletes old posts, which makes managing this theme much more convenient.

WordPress Classified Theme is a cool theme that lets you create a sophisticated classified website fast. Best of all, you get a clean code and lifetime support. If you are looking to start a listing website fast, you should strongly consider WordPress Classified Theme.

You have probably heard this before: “you can create any type of site with WordPress.” Some people find that to be an exaggeration, but there is really no limit to what you can do with your WordPress software. Classipress is one of those themes that allows you to create a complete non-blog website with your WordPress software. Classipress is specifically designed to allow you to create classified WordPress sites and monetize them. Classipress 1.0 was released a while back, and it was an impressive piece of software. Classipress 2.0 has been improved dramatically to make it even easier to set up and monetize your listings site

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As you can see above, you can easily add products to your classified sites and put them under the category that you desire. You can also allow others to add products to your website and charge them per approval. Your visitors can provide the following information and even upload their images if they wish too:

Here are a few other features that you get with Classipress v2:

• Paypal Integration: Paypal is fully integrated into this theme. You can charge your visitors per each listing and start making money fast.
• Image Manager: you and your users can upload images easily to your system. You can check the images through your image manager and delete the ones you don’t want.
• Subcategories: you can now add subcategories to your theme. The more subcategories you have, the more targeted your classified site will be.
• Report Spam: your visitors can now report spam listings and help you out with managing your classified site.
• Various Currencies: you can also choose various currencies for your site. You are not limited to $, which means you can have an international classified site.

Classipress v2 has seen major improvements over the previous version. Classipress v1 was a fine theme but it did not include all the features you need to manage a classified site effectively. The price for a single license is only $49 but you can download the multi-site version for $149 (if you plan to own multiple listing sites).