I have several prospects next year that have approached me about building websites for them - with the need to incorporate ecommerce/shopping carts. However I have had little experience with cart software (have helped template Zen Cart once) and would prefer to become familiar with and recommend solutions that abide as close to standards and accessibility as possible.
So I am about to embark on a search for the holy grail of shopping carts ... if it exists !!!
If anyone can offer good suggestions (open source or pay for use) I'd greatly appreciate it.
You may want to look at CubeCart (http://www.cubecart.com). I haven't used it myself on a project but looking at the HTML it generates, it seems pretty clean. Also, the latest version of ZenCart is supposedly does not use tables for formatting.
While TradingEye and Karova look ideal.....the price is rather prohibitive for my current prospects.
I will have a good look at cubecart, I've seen plenty of good and bad things written about it. ZenCart is popular but my limited experience with the template system didn't really excite me.
When/If I find a lower budget solution I'll post it here.
I have used Zen-Cart a few times and the latest version has got rid of 90% of the tables for layout. It is getting better. If you can't find anything else I would stick to that. Let me know how you go and maybe I will switch to another open source product as well.
The templating system is easy to learn, once you get the hang of how it works it is quite easy to use.
If you like PHP/mySQL solutions then can I suggest looking at VirtueMart. You may need to underpin this through Joomla; though it is very thorough and has a very active user and developer group on Skype. (PS: I was involved with the interface along with a guy in Germany) [www.maxs.nf]
Itomic (www.itomic.com) recommend Magento (www.magentocommerce.com) in cases where open-source is a requirement. In cases where proprietary is OK we use our own Shopping Cart/CMS which is built on the Zend Framework (http://framework.zend.com).
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I just have to disagree with Joomla and VirtueMart. I have my own CMS I wrote based on CodeIgniter that I can incorporate other open source projects easily. That is why I hadn't used Joomla prior to this year.
In January I had a client who wanted me to fix a web site built using Joomla and VirtueMart. I found so many fundamental coding errors in VirtueMart that I spent a huge time just fixing them. The functionality is somewhat limited compared to ZenCart, of course that may have been due to my ignorance of the product. Support was very bad also in the support forums.
They calculate the cart totals on the same page, without bouncing back & forth to the server. This save a lot of time with selections & ordering. Also, product/pricing updates are fast & simple.
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