Choosing an ecommerce cms

Discussion in 'eCommerce' started by Toon-c, Oct 9, 2010.

  1. #1
    Hi ..

    I want to build a drop shipping website, and I'm looking for a free open source solution ...

    I found wordpress shopperpress
    Zen cart
    and oscommerce ..;


    From your previous experience, which one is better for building small stores ?
    which one is easier to run and to customize (code / template) ?
    which one has bigger community and more add ons / plugins ?

    Will be thankful ..
     
    Toon-c, Oct 9, 2010 IP
  2. Toon-c

    Toon-c Well-Known Member

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    any idea please ?
     
    Toon-c, Oct 11, 2010 IP
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    Jasonb Well-Known Member

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    i would suggest using either prestashop or magento! prestashop is really good if you know a bit of PHP and XHTML, CSS. You can tweak it really easy its just like wordpress, very simple and strait forward, i belive it uses either smarty PHP or PEAR, one of the two anyway, i think its smarty in fact! both magento and prestashop are both OS!
     
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    Toon-c Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for answering ..
    I may go for prestashop ..
    Rep+
     
    Toon-c, Oct 11, 2010 IP
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    rashida Active Member

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    You can try with Zeuscart - php based free GPL shopping cart software.
     
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    emailm Peon

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    If you are wanna make your store much effective, then i would suggest zeuscart free open cart. Try it out now.
     
    emailm, Oct 13, 2010 IP
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    try joomla and Install V chart Module, its easy to install and customize
     
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    Pixelrage Peon

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    Good info. However I cringed when you mentioned SMARTY. I hate SMARTY with a raging passion..it's an absolute bitch to modify...
     
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    condor83 Active Member

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    hey , take a look at oscommerce as i know there are a good folk
     
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    I would say that OSCommerce would be more suitable for your needs. I also believe that OSC is better than zencart in every single way. You can also try opencart which is very simple and FREE!
     
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