Market Theme is a premium WordPress e-commerce theme that allow users to create online store within minutes. The powerful admin panel built on top of WordPress Dashboard makes customization for Market theme very easy, even for WordPress beginner or non computer techie.
Other than supporting normal WordPress installation, Market Theme also supports WPMU, making it WordPress and WordPress MU forward compatible in future. By using Market Theme alone, you can have a complete WordPress e-commerce solution, thanks to the powerful Product Manager, built-in AJAX shopping cart and also multiple payment types supported.
Market Theme’s Storefront design
User can optional switch the Storefront to use the grid layout which is a better way to visualize the products. Beside the clean grid product listing, Market Theme also match the Rules of successful E-commerce websites.
Market Theme’s Product Manager
Adding new product to the store has never been easier with the powerful WordPress panel and its custom fields. Various product properties can be added and Market Theme makes these properties available through the custom write panel, means store owner don’t have to edit the custom field in order to add these properties.
How about adding images to the product? Market Theme supports 1 main image and 3 additional images per product. The built-in phpThumb script brings generating thumbnail for product automatically.
Other features
Selling Affiliate Product – If you think that Market Theme is just for online store that has own products, then you are probably wrong. Although the main objective of Market Theme is to build a website for your products, but it is able to be customized and sell your affiliate product. Digging into the support forum and you will know the steps to do so.
Multiple Product Attributes – If you want to have multiple product attributes and having different prices for them, then you should probably consider Market Theme. Market Theme supports this feature by default.
Product Search – Product searching is very important especially if you have a lot of products on your site and you want users to be able to discover them by the search box.
Conclusion
The Market Theme is perfect for simple online store. It has all the necessary features for an e-commerce website. Though it lacks advanced feature like products filtering and not as powerful as E-commerce CMS like Magento, but it is more than enough for small scale online store.
Currently, there are 2 license options for Market Theme. The Standard license costs you $55 while the Developer license is $150. Both are able to receive upgrades in future and additional downloads for different modifications. However, only the Developer license has the resell rights. Means if you want to build online store for your client, you have to go with the Developer license.
Read more information about Market Theme Standard License or Market Theme Developer License.
