Fortunately, nowadays there are many free and paid ecommerce WordPress themes that we can use to make an online store. We can choose from a wide range of shopping cart software from basic ones to ones which offer far more features. The only thing you must be sure is that WordPress is a perfect platform to set up a webstore because of its high flexibility, stability and safety. Moreover, we must not forget the thousands of other plugins that can be used to expand its functionality. No matter if you are an expert or a novice user you will be happy with your WP based online shop.
In this list, I would like to share the most used and trusted premium WordPress ecommerce themes. These premium themes are developed by the most well-known developers, so all of them come with full support, upgrade, guarantee and a community. In my point of view, if you are thinking about starting a webstore you should choose from premium cart themes as you can always ask for support if something goes wrong or you want to make changes.
WP Store
Firstly, I would like to start with the webstore theme of Templatic. Personally, I like all the their themes because they are clean, very easy to manage and they are unique. This theme is the combination of high functionality and simplicity. It has been developed to easy to use for buyers as possible. Moreover, WP Store is different from the other similar themes as it comes with three different modes.
Shopping Cart mode has the well-known functions such as “Add to Cart” or “Buy Now”.
Digital Shop Mode – Special mode to sell digital products letting the users download their purchase any time using their account.
Catalog Mode – You can use this if you only want to showcase your items and don’t want to sell it online.
It also comes with an affiliate module, coupon generator, multiply payment getaways and many other extras that cannot be found in any other templates like this. Overall, if you are searching for a multipurpose solution this theme is worth to check
Price: 65$ | Developer: Templatic
| Features |  |
|---|---|
| Built-in shopping cart system, many extra functions | |
| Design | |
| Clean design, easy to use by buyers | |
Many layouts available
ShopperPress
Premiumpress is the creator of many high quality themes and one of them is Shopperpress. This is an “out of the box” shopping cart for WordPress. You simply install, select from 20+ skins, add products and that is all. This theme is optimal for selling products, services, affiliate products, ebooks, music or file downloads. As you can see, it is extremely flexible since you can sell both physical and digital products. Personally, I like the wide variety of skins we can choose from.
This ecommerce template is the most features rich among the ones mentioned here, it even has a membership option. This theme is good for those who need more features for customization, optimization and want to make more detailed product pages.
Price: 79.99$ | Developer: PremiumPress
| Features | |
|---|---|
| Built-in shopping cart system, many extra functions | |
| Design | |
| Clean design, easy to use by buyers | |
Great Style
Here is tutorial how you can make affiliate stores with it
Source: ShopperPress Tutorial
eShop
This is also another simple and flexible WordPress shopping cart theme from Templatic having all the mentioned functions that WP Store have. It comes with a powerful admin backend. I think this theme is optimal for selling physical products.
Main Features
- It is compatible with WooCommerce which is a powerful ecommerce solution for WordPress. If you do not like the integrated option you can use this instead.
- Easy installation and websore building. The functions have been developed in order to make the website management easy even for a beginner.
- Many option for website customization,. You can easily change the color, widgets and other site elements.
- 3 modes: shopping cart, digital shop and catalog mode.
- You can add different sorts of shipping options.
- It supports more than 10 payment getaways.
- It handles the product images automatically.
- You can add extra parameters such as taxing info.
- It also comes with a built in affiliate module.
Price: 65$ | Developer: Templatic
| Features | |
|---|---|
| Ecommerce plugin is not necessary | |
| Design | |
| Clean, easy to use layout | |
Great for selling physical items
Cart66
It is a popular and powerful WP ecommerce plugin that also enables to sell digital, physical products or services. However, it has a powerful feature that is it enables to manage memberships, so it is optimal for starting a membership website, too. Many theme supports this plugin.
This theme offers a large number of features to offer as detailed info on products as possible and products can be displayed sitewide in many ways. It supports of sorts of Paypal services and live shipping rates of UPS and many others. Cart66 is included with more than 10 payment getaways and other useful functions.
Price: Free version and Premium one for 89$
| Features |  |
|---|---|
| Powerful plugin, theme is needed | |
Source: Best Shopping Cart
Boutique WordPress Theme
This is a unique looking theme from Elegantthemes which can be extremely customized by using the powerful administration dashboard of this developer. This theme supports all the most popular shopping cart plugins. This ecommerce WordPress theme comes with a built-in rating system, many templates and shortcodes which helps to make more detailed and attractive product info pages.
If you need a highly customizable and unique looking theme, you should check this out.
Price: 39$ + 81 themes | Developer: Elegantthemes
| Features |  |
|---|---|
| Plugin is needed, many features for customization | |
| Design | |
| Unique style | |
Store
This WordPress shopping cart theme comes with built-in cart, so you do not need to use any plugins. It comes with a unique design which is different from the standard store structure. This layout makes the site navigation quite easy, so it is user friendly. I like this clean layout. As it is also made by Templatic, it comes with the same features that eStore has.
Price: 65$ | Developer: Templatic
| Features | |
|---|---|
| No plugin is needed, many useful functions | |
| Design | |
| Unique, clean style | |
eCommerce WordPress Theme for Kids
This is a fresh looking theme which can be used to make a toy, child webstore. It comes with a built-in shopping cart function, so no other plugins are need. It is also made by Templatic, so it comes with all the goodies the other themes have.
Price: 65$
| Features | |
|---|---|
| Integrated cart, useful functions | |
| Design | |
| Great colorful style | |
User Reviews & Conclusion
Making an online store may seem a hard task, but if you use any of the ecommerce themes above you will not find it hard. If you know other themes, which should be mentioned here, please comment. And if you have used any of them, you can submit your review below.
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