Thanks to Wordrpress, now anyone also can build an ecommerce site for their own. There are so many plugins so you can find the right plugin to solve a particular problem on your site, it’s easy to feel like a kid in a candy store.
In this article, we will show you the 5 of the most popular plugins for creating an ecommerce site. Almost these plugins which have the clean user interface and good user experience so the users can easy to use.
Woocommerce (Free, 4+ milion active installations)
It’s very famous plugin, powers 30% of all online stores. No need to worry if your favourite theme is compatible with Woocommerce. Virtually all the themes need to support Woocommerce, even the theme need to be updated when Woocommerce releases a new version.
Woocommerce is completely free plugin. By defalt, it nearly provides all the basic functions for creating an ecommerce site. But if you are finding more advanced features, maybe you can find out here
Easy Digital Downloads (Free, 60,000+ active installations)
As its name would suggest, Easy Digital Downloads is a complete eCommerce solution for selling digital products on WordPress. Not like Woocommerce, this plugin just provides a complete system for effortlessly selling your digital products (software, documents, photos, ebooks, songs…).
In the free version, Easy Digital Downloads supports 2 payment gateways only: Paypal Standard and Amazon Payments. You can extend this through their extension. If you are curious, visit here to see all extensions.
JigoShop (Free, 56000+ downloads from their site)
Jigoshop supports both physical and downloadable products. Jigoshop eCommerce provides you with the features necessary to complete your shop in minutes. They also supply their own theme, in this case, you want an assurance that theme will be worked perfectly with the plugin, you can choose their theme
It also supports the extensions so you feel free extend their shop
If you are not good at imagining, we suggest you visit their site for demo
WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart (Free, 40000+ active installations)
This plugin is a lightweight solution. It allows you to add an ‘Add to Cart’ button for your product on any posts or pages. It also allows you to add/display the shopping cart on any post or page or sidebar easily. You will be able to create products by using shortcodes dynamically.
WP-Ecommerce (Free, 20000+ active installations) 
The plugin supports product uploads, a dashboard for managing orders and inventory, and tax management.
WP eCommerce offers three free payment gateways such as ProPay, PayPal, and WorldPay. Other Payment gateways are available courtesy of extensions. WP-Ecommerce allows making WP eCommerce do anything you can imagine with hundreds of available hooks.
We have suggested you the 5 of most popular plugins for building ecommerce site, hope you can find what you want.
