TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart

The Professional WordPress eCommerce Plugin. Use it as shopping cart, catalog or framework.

You can extend its functionality with plugins and themes to customize your store exactly in same way that you do with WordPress. It is compatible with many existing plugins in the WordPress repository.

100% WordPress, eCommerce naturally flexible & Scalable. Powerful backend tools to make your site, store or shop Easyly and Useful

• TheCartPress Extend: plugins, themes and custom development
• TheCartPress Site
• Pluginsmaker Site

Universal theme compatibility, making it compatible also with all WordPress themes

eCommerce 100% WordPress, naturaly flexible & Scalable

• Native integration with WordPress since conception of TheCartPress.
• New WordPress user roles: Customer and Merchant.
• WordPress (MU) network compatibility.
• Powerful backend tools to make your Store Easy and Useful.
• Use it as a complete ecommerce solution, as a catalog or as a framework.
• WordPress dashboard adapted to an eCommerce use.

International Sales

• Multicurrency, flexible and custom price formats.
• International weight units.
• International taxes.
  • Prices with or without taxes. Rules for taxes. Flexibility and power.
• Payment and Shipping methods filter by buyer country.
  • Restrict Countries for shipping and payment.
• Multilanguage eCommerce.
• TheCartPress is compatible with all major multilanguage plugins. We have tested successfully with WPML (WordPress multilingual plugin) and qTranslate.

Physical and downloadable products

• New WordPress custom post type for products: tcp_product.
• Create as many saleable post type as you need to structure different types of stores and take advance of WordPress template hierarchy to customize the design/layout. Custom saleable post types are ideal for stores with very different products in nature (megastores, etc.).
• Auto embed media player for audio products.

Complex Products and Catalog Structures

• Grouped products with excerpt, content, images, author, date, comments, cross content, etc.
• Simple products with price, stock, sku, excerpt, content, images, author, date, comments, cross content, attributes, etc.
• Product variations with price, stock, sku, excerpt, content, images, author, date, comments, etc.
• Attributes.
  • “n” levels of attributes for simple products.
  • Attribute sets: Group your attributes and optimize the work of the merchant assigning a set of attributes for each product.
  • Dynamic options: Product variations based on product attributes.
• Buy options format for attributes (extending).
• Default taxonomies for the products: Category, supplier and tag.
• Custom taxonomies to sort your products.
• Classic or Layered navigation to filter the catalog by taxonomies (plugin).

Marketing highlights

• Search Engine Friendly URL’s. Custom permalinks for product archives, single product and taxonomy pages.
• Free Shipping Option.
• Discounts.
• Coupons.
• Recently Viewed Products.
• Cross-sells and cros-content in many ways.
  • Single product – Single products.
  • Single product – Single posts.
  • Single product – Product categories.
  • Single product – Post categories.
  • Category of product – Categories of products.
  • Category of product – Categories of posts.
  • Single post – Single posts.
  • Single post – Single products.
  • Single post – Post categories.
  • Single post – Product categories.
  • Category of post – Categories of Posts.
  • Category of post – Categories of Products.
• Compatibility with more relevant SEO WordPress plugins: WordPress SEO (Yoast), All in one SEO pack, etc.

Customer Accounts Offering

• New WordPress user role: Customer.
• Customizable Order Emails.
• Account Dashboard for customers.
• Order status and history.
• Downloadable area.
• Address Book with unlimited addresses.
• Default Billing and Shipping addresses.
• Product Reviews submitted.

Product listing, Configurable loops

• Use configurable TCP loops and custom WordPress loops to list your products.
• Sort panel by: price, title, suggested, date, popular. Asc or Desc.
• 2 default and configurable loops: Grid and Listing loops with options:
  • Number of columns.
  • Number of products.
  • See pagination.
  • See sort panel.
  • Order products by.
  • See Title.
  • See buy options.
  • See image.
  • See excerpt.
  • See content.
  • See taxonomies.
  • See utilities.
  • See author.
  • See custom areas.
• Use custom and configurable loops, also in shortcode generator and widgets.

Full Catalog Browsing Offering

• Filter by Product archives and Product taxonomies: Archive, Author, Date and taxonomies: Category, Supplier, Tag and custom taxonomies.
• Widgets.
  • TCP Navigation Tree and TCP Navigation Cloud widgets: Product categories and Product custom taxonomies trees and clouds.
  • TCP Layered navigation. (plugin)
  • Product comments widget.
  • Product archives widget: yearly, monthly, weekly, daily.
  • Custom and configurable product and post type lists widget.
  • Last visited widget.
  • Related items in many ways. Cross-sales, Cross-contents. (see marketing section).
  • Product listing in configurable grid or list format. You can have as many loop templates as you need. The widgets and shortcodes let you choose the template loop and let you set the visibility of each of the elements when working with Tcp loops.
• Shortcodes, insert configurable product lists when writing in the editor. See some shortcode examples in TheCartPerss Basic Demo. Also you can use your shortcodes in your in BUDDYPRESS installation.

Product Browsing Offering

• WordPress native features.
• Product Review/Comments.
• Related Products.
• Related Posts.
• Improve your store with WordPress plugins: Send to a Friend, Social share, Lightbox for images, Video galleries, etc.

Catalog Management Offering

• New WordPress user role: Merchant.
• Prices with or without taxes. Tax Rates per product. Tax rules. Lot of flexibility in how taxes work.
• Stock management.
• Post Types generator: You can create as many salable WordPress “post types” as you need. Take advantage of the WordPress template hierarchy to customize your megastores.
• Taxonomy Generator: Provides access to your products in many different ways. You can create as many taxonomies as you need to sort your products.
• Custom fields generator for your products.
• Selectable custom templates for single product pages and taxonomy pages.
• Native WordPress Media Manager with featured image, automatic image resizing and watermarking.
• WordPress galleries for products.
• Custom permalinks for products and product attributes: products categories, products tags and products suppliers.
• Approve, Respond and Delete Product Comments.
• Disable Shopping cart setting: To use TheCartPress as a catalogue
• Disable buy button for individual products.

Checkout Offering

• Configurable checkout.
• Checkout without account/Guest Checkout.
• Checkout with account to use address book.
• Create account at beginning of checkout.
• In WordPress Network installations the plugin register the user as a subscriber in main site and as customer in shop site if they are differents.
• Bind to accept the terms of the sale to proceed.
• Custom multilanguage notices for payment methods in checkout steps, end checkout OK, end checkout KO and emails.
• Custom multilanguage global notices for end checkout OK, end checkout KO and emails.

Shipping Offering

• Shipping methods: Multiple Instances.
• Shiping rates with or without taxes.
• Ability to specify allowed destination countries per method.
• Flat rate shipping per order amount.
• Flat rate shipping per item.
• Free Shipping.
• Table rates for weight and destination.
• Custom multilanguage notices for shipment methods in checkout steps, end checkout OK, end checkout KO and emails.
• Extend.
  • TheCartPress Plugin repository
  • Develop your own plugin.
  • Or looking for a developer in the community.

Payment Offering

• Payment methods: Multiple Instances.
• Ability to specify allowed payment countries per method.
• Saved Credit Card method for offline payments.
• Bank Transfer.
• Cash On delivery with extra cost: fixed or %.
• PayPal.
• Authorize.net.
• Payment gateways plugins.
  • PayFlow Pro, PayFlow Link, BarclayCard, PayMate, PayWay, FreshBooks, Ceca and growing.
• Extend.
  • TheCartPress Plugin repository
  • Develop your own plugin.
  • Or looking for a developer in the community.

+ Theme Compatibility

• Flexibility:
  • Use configurable TCP loops in your templates.
  • Use default templates for eCommerce archive and product pages (based on Twentyeleven).
  • Make your theme from scratch.
• Load default buy options style.
• Load default shopping cart & checkout style.
• Load default loop style.
• Pages show at most ”x” products.
• See buy options in content.
• Align of buy options in content.
• See price in content.
• See image in content.
• Image size in content.
• Image align in content.
• Image link in content.
• See buy options in excerpt.
• Align of buy options in excerpt.
• See price in excerpt.
• See image in excerpt.
• Image size in excerpt.
• Image align in excerpt.
• Image link in excerpt.

WordrPress improvements, Powerful tools

TheCartPress integrate some tools to works with your products. This tools are useful also to work with all your post types: posts and other custom post types.

• Widgets: TheCartPress widgets are useful to navigate all your post types.
• Taxonomy generator: Sort all your post types in many different ways.
• Shortcode generator: insert configurable post type lists (products, posts, etc) when writing in the editor. See some shortcode examples in TheCartPerss Basic Demo. Also you can use your shortcodes in your in BUDDYPRESS installation.
• Custom Field generator for all your post types.
• Post type generator: Create saleable or not saleable WordPress “custom post types”.
• Template manager: Manage custom templates for all the WordPress post types. With priority over the wordpress template hierarchy.

Theme Constructors

You can create your themes for TheCartPress exactly in same way you create the themes for WordPress. TheCartPress is 100% integrated with WordPress.

• Extend your theme adding some extra templates for eCommerce
  • Integrate easily the configurable tcp loop in your theme.
• Take advance of WordPress template hierarchy to customize the design/layout
• Template manager: Manage custom templates for all the WordPress post types.
• TheCartPress puts at your disposal a large number of WordPress template tags.

Extending TheCartPress

• Improve your store with standard WordPress plugins.
• Take a look at TheCartPress plugin repository.
• Creating TheCartPress plugins easily.

Developers:TheCartPress API / Actions and Filters

• TheCartPress defines useful hooks for use in plugin development. Those functions has been defined in the same way WordPress has defined its Actions and Filters.

Unlimited features

• TheCartPress is compatible with the WordPress plugins and you can create your own plugins, the limit is in your imagination!

More info and Community

TheCartPress Extend: plugins, themes and custom development
TheCartPress Demo
TheCartPress Site
Pluginsmaker Site