GIC already had a fully functional website and design. What they wanted was an ecommerce area that would allow them to sell digital products. We set up an online marketplace for GIC’s Wordpress-powered website. In the Marketplace visitors can add digital products to their cart, purchase their products (payments are made through PayPal Standard), and download their product immediately upon successful payment. In addition to the public marketplace, we created a consultant-only marketplace that is accessible to certified consultants only.

To build the marketplace, we used the excellent ecommerce plugin for Wordpress called eShop.  The documentation for this plugin is very thorough and easy to follow. The plugin developer also proved quite helpful when we looked for answers to our questions. He even fixed a bug within just a few hours of our reporting it.  The only limitation of this plugin is that it only supports payments through PayPal Standard. However, it proved to be the perfect solution for our client since he preferred this payment method anyway.

See the results at http://globalinsightsconsulting.com/wordpress/marketplace.