If you are familiar witht the original wpShop theme you may be wondering what’s new with
the wpShop Reloaded. Well, here’s an overview:
• Static front page
• Shop as it’s own category displays children categories if any and children categories display
the products. Providing a more visual and more “shop-like”
• display of available products.
• Blog appears alongside the Shop for regular blog posts.
• 2 new child theme layouts
• A search engine optimized Header Template
Translation Ready
• Localized theme (parent and child themes) and theme options
Documentation
• Solid, clear and well commented-out code
• Detailed Help files
Images:
• Image thumbnails for the regular blog posts are selected from the posts content images (the
first is used as the thumbnail for multible post pages)
Product Images:
• The product’s main image is uploaded using the Media Library.
• The product’s secondary images “Other Views” are uploaded as a gallery within the post.
• “Recently Added” images as well as the “Other Products from this category” images are
taken from the first image in the gallery
Sidebar:
• The shop’s categories display the main product categories and when inside one of those
categories, only then will child categories show (collapsing/expanding list),
• The Blog’s categories display just below,
• Recently added products,
• Search and “Track your order” field for your customers,
• Subpages appear dynamically when created
Extras:
• Custom breadcrumb navigation for the shop and it’s subcategories
• cformsII styles included,
• wp-Pagenavi integrated
Blog Comments:
• styles for threaded comments (if enabled),
• seperated comments and trackbacks (appear in animated dropdown),
• styled admin comments (my imported xml doesn’t show it but I have added styles for them)
• custom Avatar for users with no Avatar!
Security:
2 common sense security precautions already hooked in just for you
• Hiden login page error feedback
• Hiden WordPress version number
Preventing Spam:
• A useful little function to deny Comment Posting to No Referrer Requests
Ecommerce Features:
Products: Set using posts that you can categorize, tag etc.
Types of products you may add:
• Tangible regular products
• Tangible products with selectable options
• Tangible products with price affecting selectable options
• Digital products with or without Licence keys, self-hosted or Payloadz hosted, with or
without download expiration date.
• Affiliate products (either in combination with your own products or only affiliate products)
Related Products: Utilizing a combination of WordPress’ excellent category, tag and custom
taxonomy systems.
Shop modes – more to come…
• Regular mode: Takes customer to a payment gateway
• Inquiry mode: Sends Shopping Cart contents as email inquiry to merchant
• Affiliate mode: transforms your shop to one selling ONLY affiliate products.
• PayLoadz mode: for Payloadz hosted digital goods. You still have the option to self-host
your digital goods if desired
Basic Inventory Tracking – with a more advanced version on the way…
Payment options – more to come…
• PayPal (regular)
• Authorize.net
• WorldPay
• Bank transfer in advance
• Cash at store
• Cash on delivery
Shipping:
• Ship Internationally or only Nationwide
• 6 different shipping calculation methods (all explained in the Theme’s Options)
• Free: what it says. Shipping is free regardless of item number or weight
• Flat: a one time fee applied regardless of item number or weight
• Flat Limit: same as FLAT above with the only difference that for orders above a
certain value shipping is free
• Weight Flat: a set fee amount per kilogramm
• Weight Class: a different fee amount applied to different weight classes.
• Per Item: a fee applied according to how many items are in the cart
Delivery:
• post
• pick up from location
• direct download or email (for digital products)
International Address Formats: Formatted after the UPU, Universal Postal Union guidelines
Communication:
Notification Emails send to merchant:
• New Order
• New Pending Payment Order
• Cleared Pending Transaction
• New Inquiry
• Low Stock
• Low Licence Keys
Emails send to Customers:
• Order Confirmation & Shipping Notification
• Inquiry Confirmation
Other:
• Printable „Bill“ document that your customers can get after an order has gone
through. In PDF Format and for some languages in printable HTML format.
• Google Maps link to your shop
Order Management:
• View details for each received order:
• When
• Who
• How much
• Chosen payment option
• Chosen Delivery Option
• Manualy send emails to individual customers (for pending orders etc)
• Print order invoices
• View PayPal transaction id’s
• Change the status of each order (for better management and clearer overview) from “Newly
received & Paid” to:
• In process
• Shipped
• Completed
• View Sales Statistics
Advertizement:
• Manage Google Adsence and Google Analytics

Any chance that FirstData (Linkpoin payment type might be added soon? Many of us could benefit from the addition.