Social Commerce is  buying and selling stuff online with friends. Using the Social commerce technology, we can buy and sell products and services online with the social aspects. We can get recommendations on the products and services that users provide.

Elgg Social Commerce plugin is a feature rich Elgg Plugin that gives you the power to convert your elgg applications into a social store like Shopit. It enables people to create hosted shopping cart with Elgg social networking platform. Shoppers add items to their cart and go through a checkout process as if they were using a popular ecommerce cart, only this all takes place on a small corner of a merchant's personal or business profile page on a social networking site. It helps users to have everything he has in his social page, but allows to create an online store.

Web masters can define the payment options, shipping options etc. The plugin is designed in a modular structure, hence elgg developers can add new shipping and payment modules easily.

The Social Commerce Elgg plugin has released with a bunch of built in widgets, like "My Products", "My Purchases", "Top Rated Products", "Best Sellers" etc, that can be placed in the profile pages.

The Social Commerce plugin is a great step to make your elgg applications as a online Market. There are many different ways to implement elgg and Social Media, but social commerce plugin based apps provide a way to instantly monetize them. This shopping cart solution provide a solution for merchants to manage inventory centrally while still tapping into social commerce.

More over, this plugin is developed by a Team of Trusted developers in the Elgg Community .