Powerful, easy to use ecommerce shopping cart for WordPress. Sell on Facebook and Instagram. iPhone & Android apps. Superb support.
As of April 2026, Ecwid by Lightspeed Ecommerce Shopping Cart is a WordPress ecommerce plugin with 20K+ active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 228 reviews. It has been downloaded 3.0M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.4+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are up 34% this week. Top alternative: WooCommerce.
Ecwid Ecommerce Shopping Cart is everything you need to add an online store to your WordPress site. Powerful, easy-to-use and Gutenberg-friendly. Hundreds of thousands of sellers in 175 countries, 45 languages supported. PayPal, Stripe and 70+ more payment options. Real-time shipping integrations. Selling on Instagram and Facebook.
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.
I love this plugin. Using it for years and they continue to improve on it. The latest improvement is a big one as it adds better seo value to the urls by removing the product id from the end of the url. Nice one!
The one thing I wish it could do better though is to have better abilities to show products and categories on different pages within WordPress. As it is right now the existing options aren’t great as they’re just a variation of embedding the category Or a single product. To me this is where woocommerce does a much better job of integrating into wordpress.
So I developed two widgets to address this issue. Anybody is interested in them just contact me and I will give you the files. Here are two websites using the two widgets I created. Widget is a reviews widget that pulls in product reviews and the second is a products widget that pulls in products. There are loads of options and customizations for each.
To see it in action check out covered Bridge Maple Sugaring
and HM Cattle Company dot net specifically the homepage and the tallow page.
The only complaint that I have is that I had to upgrade to another plan in order to have digital files. Other than that, this works for what I need it for – and I couldn’t be happier…. unless I can downgrade and still have digital files (lol – kidding, mostly).
very simple and easy to use. recommended
I am just starting to use Ecwid but so far it ticks all the boxs that many other platforms could not. The shipping configuration is the best I have used, the interface is easy to navigate and the customer support is great. I highly recommend to anyone selling online. I only wish that they offered a la carte features as I dont need most of them.
This is a great plugin if if you want e-commerce in WordPress and don’t want to be bound by the standard plugins available like WooCommerce or EDD etc. Though I don’t use some of the best features available because I don’t use the Gutenberg editor rather I use the Avada theme it’s still very useful and a great plugin.
Keep up the great work, I definitely recommend this plugin!
| WordPress | 4.4+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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