Adding an online store to an existing WP site

  • Unknown's avatar

    I am thinking about selling artwork via an existing self-hosted WordPress site.

    Ideally I’d simply like to add a page the website, where works for sale could be displayed, and that would allow customers to choose, order, and pay for them with a third-party service such as Paypal.

    Physical prints only; no downloads. Fulfillment would be handled offline. There would be no need to keep track of inventory, etc. I just need to take orders and collect payment.

    Does anyone have any recommendations as to the best way to accomplish this? Complete e-commerce newb here. Happy to be pointed to any good resources online.

  • Hi there!

    On WordPress.com you would be able to achieve that with our Payments, or Pay with Paypal Blocks. On a self-hosted site, though, I’m not sure what could be done. There probably are plugins that would help you.

    But if you’re looking for plugin recommendations, you’ll likely find more relevant information if you’ll try the other forum:

    https://wordpress.org/support/forums/.

    Most folks in these forums have a free WordPress site hosted here with us, and thus can’t install plugins without upgrading. And since the upgraded sites come with direct support, those users don’t typically hang out here.

  • Unknown's avatar

    Thanks for the response and clarification. I’ll head over to the other forum.

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