Ninja Shop – The Quickest Way to Start Selling vs WooCommerce

Ninja Shop is not currently under active development. If this changes in the future, this readme will be updated to reflect that. Ninja Shop is a free eCommerce plugin that allows you to sell anything, quickly. Built to integrate seamlessly with WordPress, Ninja Shop is a simple and clean alternative to clunky eCommerce solutions. While Ninja Shop is filled with extremely powerful features, you won’t be overwhelmed with complexity. Only enable what you need, and watch your products take center stage. Sell Your Stuff Online in Under 5 Minutes Ninja Shop makes it easy to get your store up and running quickly. Just install, activate, choose your payment methods, and start adding your products. A Simple Interface Your products are not blog posts, so we created an experience that makes creating products simpler and more intuitive. Simple but Extendable An online store can get pretty complicated, and not everyone needs the same things. With Ninja Shop, many features are split into add-ons. You only see what your store needs, making it simple to use and manage. Product Inventory – Set and track product inventories. Hidden Source Files for Digital Product Downloads – Use source file URLs from the WordPress media library or from Dropbox, Amazon, etc. and Ninja Shop automatically hides this source URL for digital product downloads. Download Expirations – Apply settings for download links to expire or to limit access to download links/file downloads. Simple Shipping – Adds flat rate and free shipping for your physical products. Simple Taxes – Collect US, Canadian, or EU Value Added Taxes. Customer Order Notes – Allow your customers to leave a note while placing an order. Terms of Service – Require your customers agree to your Terms of Service when purchasing your products. Product Categories and Tags – Organize your store by with categories and tags. Membership – Create as many memberships as you want with specific rules for what content your members can access. You can also use the Memberships add-on to delay (or drip) content access on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. (Coming Soon) Sell Your Products Your Way Single or Multi-item Cart Options – Allow customers to purchase single products quickly or multiple products with one transaction. Digital Downloads – Add a product type for distributing digital downloads through Ninja Shop. Guest Checkout – Enabling this add-on gives customers the ability to checkout as a guest, without registering. Customer Pricing – Let customers choose their price from a list of price options you create or let them enter their own price. Coupons – Generate basic coupons that apply to all products in your store. (Coming Soon) Product Availability – Limit when specific products are available for purchase using simple start and end dates. (Coming Soon) Get Paid with PayPal, Stripe, and more Out of the box, Ninja Shop offers the simplest process for accepting payments. Additional options can easily be enabled easily to provide even more flexibility. PayPal Payments Standard (Basic) Offline Payments PayPal Payments Standard (Secure) (Premium) Stripe (Premium) PayPal Pro (Coming Soon) Authorize.net (Coming Soon) 2checkout (Coming Soon) Customer & Payment Management Made Easy Ninja Shop uses the built-in WordPress user system, while adding customer data to its own page. This makes it simple to edit user transactions, view available downloads, and make customer notes for your reference. Basic Reporting Dashboard Widget – View basic sales statistics from the WordPress admin dashboard. Payment/Transaction Details – See order number, payment total, status, customer, payment method, and date of payment for individual transactions. Customer Registration – Use Ninja Shop Registration or WordPress Registration settings. Customer Data – Manage customers by viewing products purchased, transactions, or adding notes to customer info. Issue Refunds or Resend Confirmation Emails – Easily issue refunds or resend confirmation emails for individual customers. Customizable Emails Use the WordPress WSIWYG editor to make custom email templates for Admin Sales Notification emails and Customer Receipt Emails. HTML is accepted. Admin Sales Notification Emails – Customize the email sent to admins for sales notifications. Customer Receipt Emails – Customize the receipt emails customers receive after making a purchase. Email Shortcode Functions – Use built-in shortcode functions in emails for customer name, full name, username, download list, order table, purchase date, total, payment id, receipt id, payment method, site name, and receipt links. Learn More For more information on Ninja Shop features and available add-ons Supported by a Passionate Team We’ve been building and supporting WordPress tools since 2011. One of our other products, Ninja Forms, has over 1 million active installs, so you can trust we’re up to the challenge. We hope you’ll try Ninja Shop and love it. But we also want to hear what we can do to make it work best for your business. Send us your ideas and feedback. Developer Emeriti ithemes, blepoxp, layotte, aaroncampbell, mattdanner

WooCommerce is the open-source ecommerce platform for WordPress. Our core platform is free, flexible, and amplified by a global community. The freedom of open-source means you retain full ownership of your store’s content and data forever. Whether you’re launching a business, taking brick-and-mortar retail online, or developing sites for clients, use WooCommerce for a store that powerfully blends content and commerce. Create beautiful, enticing storefronts with themes suited to your brand and industry. Increase revenue with an optimized shopping cart experience that converts. Customize product pages in minutes using modular product blocks. Showcase physical and digital goods, product variations, custom configurations, instant downloads, and affiliate items. Sell subscriptions, bookings, or memberships, with our developer-vetted extensions. Rise to the top of search results by leveraging WordPress’ SEO advantage. Build on a platform that scales. Get flexible ecommerce for high-volume stores. ALL THE TOOLS YOU NEED TO SELL Built-in tools and popular integrations help you efficiently manage your business operations. Many services are free to add with a single click via the optional Setup Wizard. Choose how you want to get paid. Conveniently manage payments from the comfort of your store with WooPayments (Available in the U.S., U.K., Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Spain, France, Germany, and Italy). Securely accept credit cards, mobile wallets, bank transfers, and cash thanks to 100+ payment gateways – including Stripe, PayPal, and Square. Configure your shipping options. Print USPS labels right from your dashboard and even schedule a pickup with WooCommerce Shipping (U.S.-only). Connect with well-known carriers such as UPS and FedEx – plus a wide variety of delivery, inventory, and fulfillment solutions for your locale. Simplify sales tax. Add WooCommerce Tax or similar integrated services to make automated calculations a reality. Grow your business, add features, and monitor your store on the go WooCommerce means business. Keep tabs on the performance metrics most important to you with a powerful and flexible central dashboard built into WooCommerce. Expand your audience across marketing and social channels with Google Ads, HubSpot, Mailchimp, and Facebook integrations. You can always check out the in-dashboard Marketing Hub for fresh ideas and tips to help you succeed. Enhance store functionality with hundreds of free and paid extensions from the WooCommerce Marketplace. Our developers vet each new extension and regularly review existing extensions to maintain Marketplace quality standards. We are actively looking for products that help store builders create successful stores. Manage your store from anywhere with the free WooCommerce mobile app (Android and iOS). Spoiler alert: Keep an ear out for the slightly addictive “cha-ching” notification sound each time you make a new sale! Own and control your store data – forever With WooCommerce, your data belongs to you. Always. If you opt to share usage data with us, you can feel confident knowing that it’s anonymized and kept secure. Choose to opt-out at any time without impacting your store. Unlike hosted ecommerce solutions, WooCommerce store data is future-proof; you’re free to export all your content and take your site to any platform you choose. No restrictions. Why developers choose (and love) WooCommerce Developers can use WooCommerce to create, customize, and scale a store to meet a client’s exact specifications, making enhancements through extensions or custom solutions. Leverage hooks and filters to modify or create functionality. Integrate virtually any service using a robust REST API and webhooks. Design and build custom content blocks with React. Inspect and modify any aspect of the core plugin code. Speed up development with a lightning-fast CLI. The core platform is tested rigorously and often, supported by a dedicated development team working across time zones. Comprehensive documentation is updated with each release, empowering you to build exactly the store required. Be part of our growing international community WooCommerce has a large, passionate community dedicated to helping merchants succeed – and it’s growing fast. There are WooCommerce Meetups in locations around the world that you can attend for free and even get involved in running. These events are a great way to learn from others, share your expertise, and connect with like-minded folks. WooCommerce also has a regular presence at WordCamps across the globe – we’d love to meet you. Contribute and translate WooCommerce is developed and supported by Automattic, the creators of WordPress.com and Jetpack. We also have hundreds of independent contributors, and there’s always room for more. Head to the WooCommerce GitHub Repository to find out how you can pitch in. WooCommerce is translated into multiple languages, including Danish, Ukrainian, and Persian. Help localize WooCommerce even further by adding your locale – visit translate.wordpress.org. Connection to WooCommerce.com You can connect your store to WooCommerce.com to manage your subscriptions on WooCommerce Marketplace and receive product updates without leaving WordPress admin. Connection also enables installation of purchased products right from WooCommerce.com and streamlines access to technical support. If you’d like to learn about what data is gathered and how it is used, please refer to our Privacy Policy.