Ecwid Ecommerce Shopping Cart is everything you need to add an online store to your WordPress site. Powerful, easy-to-use and Gutenberg-friendly. Over 1 million sellers in 175 countries, 45 languages supported. PayPal, Stripe and 40 more payment options. Real-time shipping integrations. Selling on Instagram and Facebook.
Automatic Shipping and Taxes
The Ecwid ecommerce plugin integrates with major carriers including USPS, UPS, FedEx, Canada Post, Australia Post, and others to automatically calculate shipping rates. Taxes are also automated and can be set-up in a few clicks. Automated tax rate calculations are available for the U.S., Canada, and EU VAT. Additionally, integration with TaxJar provides automatic sales tax reporting and filing in the U.S.
Sell on Facebook and Instagram
Add your online store to Facebook and sell to millions of Facebook and Instagram users. No addons needed. Ecwid will automatically synchronize your products, customers, orders and inventory between your WordPress and Facebook storefronts. Ecwid is the
#1 e-commerce app on Facebook. Join!
eCommerce Mobile Apps
Ecwid Shopping Cart provides free mobile applications for iOS and Android to manage your store and sell on the go. Scan products, track inventory, manage sales and accept payments using your mobile device as a POS station. Your ecommerce data is automatically synchronized with your Wordpress shopping cart, Facebook store and other online storefronts.
Unlimited Storage, Automatic Backups and Seamless Upgrades
With the Ecwid Shopping Cart, your online store data is fully hosted on our secure servers. Regardless of the WordPress hosting service you use, your Ecwid online store includes:
- unlimited storage
- regular backups
- seamless upgrades and security updates
So you don't need to worry about software updates, security patches and server maintenance – we do that for you. Your online store gets all the new ecommerce features and bug fixes automatically.
PCI DSS validated Level 1 Service Provider
Ecwid Shopping Cart is PCI DSS Level 1 certified, which is the gold standard for e-commerce solutions worldwide. This means that Ecwid helps your online store meet the security requirements of the bank you do business with.
Superb Support
Friendly and knowledgeable support experts available 24/5 so you can get immediate help when you need it. Support options include email, e-commerce community forums, chat and phone support.
Sell Everywhere
With Ecwid, you can include your ecommerce shop on multiple websites, blogs, social sites and ecommerce marketplaces like
Amazon,
eBay and
Google Shopping and sell simultaneously everywhere. Add your online store to as many sites as you want, manage it from one place.
Mobile Responsive Design
Ecwid works great on any Wordpress site, especially those running on mobile-optimized themes. Your online store looks perfect on smartphones and automatically adapts to your customer’s screen size: laptops, tablets, smart TVs or smart watches. Check out this
demo
Hundreds of extensions and powerful API
There is a lot of in-house and third party extensions built on the Ecwid Ecommerce APIs. You can find a ready made plugin extending features of your online storefront the way you want or build a custom addon yourself. The existing family of third party plugins include tax automation apps like TaxJar, fulfilment services like ShipStation, customer support tools like LiveChat and many others.
Your Favorite Free Plugin
Ecwid offers a free plan that’s always available with no hidden setup charges or transaction fees. Get your online store up and running at zero cost. As your online shop grows, Ecwid grows with you. When the time is right, consider upgrading to one of our premium plans to get more robust features and preferred support. See also:
Ecwid plan and pricing
See Ecwid In Action
Ecwid Site
Terms of usage
The plugin uses the Ecwid ecommerce cloud services (
www.ecwid.com). Your store data is securely hosted with Ecwid under the terms and conditions listed here:
The plugin uses CDN services by AWS Cloudfront to speed up user stores. It is managed by the Ecwid Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and
AWS Customer Agreement.
Automatic installation (the easiest way)
- In your Wordpress admin backend, navigate to Plugins → Add New
- Under Search, type in
Ecwid
and click Search
- In the search results find the Ecwid Ecommerce Shopping Cart plugin and click Install now to install it
- When plugin is installed click Activate Plugin link
- Navigate to Ecwid Store → General page in your Wordpress admin backend and follow the instruction provided there
Alternative ways
Uploading the plugin zip archive in Wordpress admin backend
- Download Ecwid plugin from this page (click Download button)
- In your Wordpress admin backend, navigate to Plugins → Add new
- Click Upload link and choose the saved zip file in the appeared dialog window.
- Click Install
Uploading plugin folder to Wordpress directory on your server
- Download Ecwid plugin from this page (click Download button)
- Unpack the downloaded zip archive
- Upload ecwid-shopping-cart directory from the archive to the
/wp-content/plugins/
directory on your server
Please refer to this article for the details and troubleshooting on plugin installation in Wordpress:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins#Installing_Plugins