not free

  • Despite their promise for this to be free … when setting up they hit you every step of the way to purchase a support program.

    After installation, I was checking out the various pages, and the layout of my shopping carts was not good. So I looked at their support forum … community support is severely lacking, their wordpress forum looks like it just starting with not many posts.

    All of the how-to videos show a different set of features that apparently I won’t get unless I have the support key.

    Shopp is free, sure enough, but after the hook is in and they reel you on board, you find you need to pay for extras … just like *many* other ecommerce plugins … I want to know staight up ahead of time before hand, not after.

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  • Plugin Author chaoix

    (@chaoix)

    The Q&A page here has a great explanation on how Shopp is free:

    I thought Shopp was a premium plugin?

    Shopp was a free-speech plugin sold exclusively through the Shopp website. Today, Shopp is a free (as in speech) and free (as in beer) WordPress plugin. Basic, limited support is provided once a week through the WordPress forum for Shopp. Full premium support from our team of experts is available through the official Shopp support help desk with the purchase of a Shopp support key from the Shopp Store.

    I would like to clarify that in general the extras you refer to are either payment gateway or shipping add-ons that aren’t included with Shopp, however Shopp does include You can see a full list of the paid add-on offers in the Shopp Store:
    https://shopplugin.net/store/

    Here is another great quote from the Q&A page:

    Do I have to purchase an add-on to run my store?

    No! Shopp includes two popular payment platforms with the free download: PayPal Payments Standard and 2Checkout along with Offsite Payments and Test Mode payments systems. In addition there are 7 shipping calculators included for free. 20 starter template files and 2 stylesheet templates (compatible with all WordPress themes that follow theme development guidelines) are included for free. Everything you need to get your online storefront up and running is already included. No add-ons are necessary unless you are looking for specific integrations with preferred payment systems or real-time shipping rates.

    Matthew

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