Sofa Stockphoto – WP shop with Deposit system
SOFA Stockphoto theme is definitely not made for one purpose only – as you can read in title. It has been made to enable users to sell any type of intangible (digital) goods. Stockphoto sale is only one practical example of its usage. Just imagine what else you could sell…logos, website templates, WordPress themes, illustrations, code, audio files, applications, images, fonts, 3D models, etc., etc. Possibilities are endless!
This theme is your own, private marketplace! It has built-in Deposit system and works with any PayPal business account. Deposit system enable users to purchase certain amount of credits which can be used on your site to buy digital goods.
My goal was to develop a theme which will help people make some extra dough. I bet many photographers, designers or programmers will benefit from selling their work which was rejected by client and buried somewhere on hard drive!
Features summary
* Built-in fully functional Deposit System
* Built-in PayPal with transaction validation
* Custom Login-Register-Password Recovery panel
* Dual tech images slider; easy switch between Flash and jQuery from theme Options page
* Manage images slider photos straight from Admin panel
* Ready-made Contact form
* Extensible via Pluggers system
* Fully translatable from theme Options
* Multi-level drop-down navigation
* Completely managable thru theme Options
* + many, many more
For the purpose of better look and feel there are 3 user accounts created. You can test how the purchase works, all accounts have pre-set deposits. I will try to ‘clean up’ them from time to time so other people can test it too. No matter what, feel free to register and see how it works.
NOTE : This theme doesn’t run in TEST mode. You can deposit some money for real. However, each and every item you purchase for download is not an actual representation of image next to it. In order to reduce bandwidth I had to ZIP up dummy text files which are only few kiloBytes heavy. Actual images are taken from Flickr (free for distribution).
On the other side, for the purpose of better support I did open support forum. I guess better organized theme author and theme user communication should reduce redundancy in replying and help people to find answers much quicker