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Wife and I are starting up a small Natural Bath and Body internet store..
Started with Zen Cart,because it was free, all in one and had support...
Looking to switch....
Some features and nots...
My own host
Purchase software out right
Customizable using Dreamweaver, frontpage etc...
Reasonable price..
Found a dream solution, but 2500 a year was a little steep.. :(
Currently looking at cart genie
Any recommendations or information is appreciated...
Dave
I like CS-Cart. About $190.00 life time for a single domain
Can you specify why do you looking to switch ?
We are on our second shopping cart. We switched to
Shopsite a few years ago and haven't looked back. (The
first one was a disaster). We let our hosting service
take care of the software side of it.
I can't say how they compare with others, though.
We get about 50 orders per day and everything works
very smoothly. I haven't run into something that I
wanted to do that wasn't supported.
They have a good forum and quick support.
best regards
wiz
I use econostores. The most cost effective solution I could find but looks good. Great support.
My company uses osCommerce or CRE Loaded for clients that need to cut costs upfront. But for a long term solution we use ASPDOTNET Store Front. It is 100% customized able and developed in the latest .Net Arch.
Michael Covarrubias
CEO & Owner
iC Tek Solutions
Has anyone used Interspire Shopping Cart?
I've been using Ultracart for over a year and their reliability is just terrible. The site goes down every weekend and my customers can't order. Their customer service is unresponsive when this occurs -- nobody there to answer my calls, etc. I'm actively looking for another cart. Wish I had never heard of Ultracart.
:(
Best,
Michele
You have a lot of choices.Quote:
Originally Posted by dbunch
digiSHOP
Pinnacle Cart
Squirrel Cart
Sunshop
etc...
All carts now ****, because new free, open source cart was released this month.
http://www.magentocommerce.com
demo
http://demo.magentocommerce.com/
LOL. Free and open source is fine for tech savvy people. But if you deal with business owners who don't understand FTP or anything like that then managing open source software isn't for them. Example, if there is a security problem (which there will be) then the owner has to do the work to patch the problem versus other solutions which do this for them. So open source is fine, but it is not for everybody.Quote:
Originally Posted by KonstantinDK
Hi, I would recommend Avactis shopping cart. $199 one-time and it's yours. Fast, reliable, easy-to use (really). Many templates + you can make your own :)
you will get so many answeres to a question like that. everyone has there own reasons for using a certain cart. The best thing to do is reaserch, and ask yourself, do you want to do it yourself or hire someone, or a little of both. you can find great carts that you can set up and put the inventory in yourself and mabey hire someone to customize.
the best think to do is reaserch and try the demos and check out thier forums or better yet. call them and talk to someone.
I know that when I was searching for a new provider, I would not even consider something that did not allow me a free trial period. Since I was going to have to handle all the "design" and had NO experience, this was very important to me. I found Volusion best suited my needs and experience level. It may or may not be for you, but be sure that you can "test drive" any solution you are interested in prior to laying out a lot of cash.
Sorry, it's a bit off-topic since no real recommendation for a product. But I want point out this quote from DavidM1. I can just agree 200% to his statement :-)Quote:
LOL. Free and open source is fine for tech savvy people. But if you deal with business owners who don't understand FTP or anything like that then managing open source software isn't for them.
So you should consider the following when looking for a shopping cart or any other business software:
1. Does it fulfill my current requirements ?
2. Is the solution adaptable to future demands ?
3. What kind of customer service / additional support is provided ?
If all this is met, then you should have a look at the price and compare similar solutions whether or not they fit into your budget.
We use ASPDNSF and it has been wounderful.
Any requirement you have this cart can do it. The requirements that you cannot live with out is how you should buy a shopping cart. This cart will give you and fit any requirement. This is the ultimate shopping cart.
We had bought 5 licenses and ended up only needing one because of how great this cart is. If you are interested we can give you a great price, we only have 3 licenses left.
You can pm us or use the link at our signature line below.
I've build several stores with the ASPDotNetStorefront software. It's about $1300 for the software, but it has more features than anything else I've seen, it's very SEO friendly, and completely customizeable.
The site goes down every weekend and their customers can't order. Their customer service is unresponsive when this occurs nobody there to answer someone calls, etc. I'm actively seems for another cart. Aleast they had never heard of Ultracart.
Magento shopping carts are the best. Feature rich, very flexible and robust offers complete control over the look and functionality your ecommerce store. And its intuitive administration interface features powerful marketing tools, a catalog-management engine and is SEO optimized to give merchants the power to create sites that provide an unrivaled and rich online shopping experience for their customers, tailored to their unique business needs.
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Best answer by far, Marc77 ..
In my opinion vplanetcommerce provides a good option for your own shopping cart.
adding my 2 cents... you could try avactis, a PHP/mySQL based shopping cart software it also a 15 day free trial period and from there you could decide
You will never know if the software is good enough until you try it. Downloading a free version or testing a demo is a huge help to remove all doubts. We have different needs for our business but the most important thing in an online business is in choosing the right software that will run your store. I would recommend Avactis Shopping Cart, it is very easy to use and customize.
You could try WebOrder.biz. Your shop remains active for an indefinite period and
is 100% free as long as your catalog does not need to contain more
than 10 products.