In the past it takes a lot of effort to create an ecommerce website that requires  deep knowledge of technical skills and cost to maintain or hire someone to do it.  Fortunately, WordPress content management system has been helpful to reduce cost and time to create an ecommerce site. By choosing to install WordPress as a content management platform, a website can be enhanced significantly to not only being easily manageable, but also more easily searchable by search engines.

There are many reasons why WordPress can be so useful for ecommerce business. It can be easily customized with many pre-designed theme. There are thousands of themes over the internet that can be purchased or downloaded for free to match the design of a specific business theme. Most setups can be completed within a few minutes.

Aside from that, WordPress also allow unique customisation for web design in specific way while using it as content management system. In addition, WordPress ecommerce  plugins comes with a great package for anyone to start their ecommerce site almost instantly. These include shopping cart, payment gateway, shipping configuration, and product listing for all selling convenience.

In terms of security for ecommerce, WordPress also provide  more stable and better security  through well known gateways such as Paypal and Google Checkout. It provides reputable payment gateway system and can be incorporated with other payment methods to add more options for clients.

WordPress is widely supported by many users, technical support can be easily found from many places. But what best of all, it’s free to use.