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      CommentAuthorGoNuRob
    • CommentTimeDec 19th 2006
     
    Hi everyone,

    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.

    With Thanks,

    Rob.
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      CommentAuthormattymcg
    • CommentTimeDec 19th 2006
     
    I don't have any experience with it, but this looks interesting.
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      CommentAuthorkepler
    • CommentTimeDec 20th 2006
     
    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.

    Regards,
    Kepler Gelotte
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      CommentAuthorTyssen
    • CommentTimeDec 20th 2006
     
    http://www.karova.com/ (Andy Clarke who is behind Matty's link used to be involved with them)
    http://tradingeye.com/products/tradingeye_shop_pro/
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      CommentAuthorGoNuRob
    • CommentTimeDec 21st 2006
     
    Thanks Matty,Kepler & Tyssen.

    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.
    • CommentAuthorjcopp1
    • CommentTimeDec 22nd 2006 edited
     
    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.
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      CommentAuthorsorax
    • CommentTimeAug 24th 2008
     
    I am considering to use Magento SC.

    You can check list of features on their website
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    Hi Rob,

    We are doing shopping carts from last 4 years, according to me best is joomla (CMS) with vcart , both of them are open source.

    thanks.
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    hello rob,

    I think carmen is right Joomla is easy and best.

    Thanks
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    • CommentAuthorsimonJae
    • CommentTimeOct 7th 2008
     
    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]
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      CommentAuthoritomic
    • CommentTimeMay 14th 2009
     
    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).
    • CommentAuthorsobhyng
    • CommentTimeMay 28th 2009
     
    I suggest you to go with Virtuemart/Joomla, same function than Volusion but it's free, and it has them all

    Joomla will give you the base, virtuemart the shopping cart, and sh404 will rewrite your url and manage you metatag.

    According to me it's a great soluction.

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    • CommentAuthorwebkid90
    • CommentTimeMay 31st 2009
     
    You may need to underpin this through Joomla; though it is very thorough and has a very active user and developer group on Skype.
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      CommentAuthorkepler
    • CommentTimeAug 15th 2009
     
    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.

    That is just my opinion of course.
    • CommentAuthorclassna
    • CommentTimeAug 15th 2009 edited
     
    You should give CubeCart a short.. There are some stunning cubecart skins available here.
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    • CommentAuthorkumstan321
    • CommentTimeMar 2nd 2010 edited
     
    If you have a small number of products/services to sell, maybe
    a totaling form is what you need.

    I found two examples of totaling forms that I found very easy & useful:

    Totaling Form1
    Totaling Form2

    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.
    • CommentAuthorlarsen
    • CommentTimeMar 10th 2010
     
    thanks

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