ZenCart, Drupal, UberCart, CRE, OSC... ?

[ProfitProphet]

Hey guys. This is my first post here. Looks like a great site.

I currently have a static html web site and I want to add a shopping cart program to it.

I want to use one of the Open Source cart programs available.

I have been looking at the following options:

ZenCart
OSCommerce
CRELoaded
Drupal with e-commerce module or UberCart

If you are using any of these systems, what do you like or dislike about it?

If you have used several of these programs, what do you like/dislike about each?

I'm sure this has been asked a lot before, but most of the threads I found when searching were very old.

Thanks for your input.

[JEccles]

We're not using any of those but I have heard over and over how great Zencart is.

[cometmall]

Do you know PHP/MySQL ?

[ProfitProphet]

I know some SQL but I don't know PHP. I would be hiring freelance coders to do the customizations for me.

[TipPro]

One non-open source shopping cart to look at is Miva Merchant 5. The latest version uses mySql so you can do a lot of custom programing to enhance your store and back office operations.

[ProfitProphet]

Thanks for the replies.

I ended up going with 3 different carts on 3 different sites.

I went with Drupal & Ubercart on one site, ZenCart on another, and OScommerce on the third.

So far I like Ubercart the best, but I haven't played with the other two much yet.

[cploonker]

We use Zen Cart. We tried out osCommerce as well as CRE Loaded. Also, X-cart. Zen Cart is far better, very good response time. X-cart is good if you are willing to pay for it.

[digitalgeek]

I know some SQL but I don't know PHP. I would be hiring freelance coders to do the customizations for me.

you can try Intelex ecommerce - this is very useful solution and their team will do custom coding on demand if you need some.