web shop
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Please could you let me know which plan includes a webstore. I am planing a little site only thus I hope that the 8.99 plan already features a webstore. Also I am from czech republic, thus the page is pretty expansive for me. Please also let me know if u accept credit cards in the webstore. Thank you for your time. Sophi
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Hi bunny2ucom,
Sure, you can use WooCommerce for creating a webshop.
“WooCommerce is an open source e-commerce plugin for WordPress. It is designed for small to large-sized online merchants using WordPress”.
WooCommerce and many of its extensions and plugins are free and open source. Also, there are thousands of paid add-ons for fixed prices. Many Premium Themes now offer capability with Woocommerce as well as plugins that make a theme framework compatibleHow to start using WooCommerce?
*Create a WooCommerce account.
*Once you have signed in with your WordPress account, “approve” your WordPress.com account to sign in to WooCommerce.com.
This will allow WooCommerce.com to: View user information data such as username, name, email, blog, and Gravatar.I will come back to you about your credit card payment question soon.
I hope my answer helped?
Best,
Tatiana -
@bunny2ucom
That answer above is wrong.The correct answer is no wordpress.COM plans provide e commerce capability. You cannot run woocommerce on any site that’s hosted by wordpress.COM. You can only run it on a wordpress.ORG install on paid hosting. See: Moving to self hosted wordpress http://move.wordpress.com
There is no secure payments system here at wordpress.COM, and you cannot add a shopping cart to create an online store to any sites hosted by wordpress.COM, regardless of upgrades, but creative cost-free workarounds have been developed and shared.
Provided you are selling only what you yourself make or a providing service that you personally provide on a wordpress.COM site, or you are asking for donations you have two options.
(1) PayPal – Know that the only instructions that will work for posting a PayPal donation button on a WordPress.com blog are found here http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/
Note that the PayPal email link is not supported and PayPal customization options are not supported either https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/paypal-button-41?replies=12#post-2517229 This is not likely to be changed any time soon, if at all.Some bloggers create a contact form https://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/ on a page and after the people have made a PayPal donation they provide the link to a private page for downloading files. Maybe that will work for you.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/(2) If you set up an eCommerce site somewhere else online you can create a custom menu http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/ and include a custom link to that site in it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-custom-links
If what I provided above at (1) and (2) do not suit you, then this guide will explain how to move your WordPress.com site to another hosting platform: Moving to Self-Hosted WordPress where you can set up a secure payment system http://move.wordpress.com
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Dear bunny2ucom and timethief,
I am sorry, I did not not double check that I am in the WordPress.com forum, I thought I was in the WordPress.org forum.
My answer was indeed not correct, you cannot run Woocommerce on a site hosted at WordPress.com. Like timethief said, you can only run Woocommerce using a WordPress installation on paid hosting. Support for such installations is provided at wordpress.org support forum.
Best,
Tatiana
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