Hi, I am newbies in field of internet marketing. I am a small businessman, dealing in gifts, toys, and home decorative items. I have a catalog of around 700-800 products. I am looking for a good hosted shopping cart solution. It must facilitates catalog management, online shopping cart, support for all online payment methods, customer management, sales notification inforamation system, proper reporting system, product inventory, easy to maintain administrative panel, professional look of website. I heared about hosted shopping cart, but i am confused, i think such type of solution provides little flexibility. Please suggest me the appropriate solution. Thanks, Eseeker
Hey guy, Please help me out, I searched some solution like yahoo, b2bparadise, and monstercommerce but could not know which one will be suitable for me. Thanks
Hi Eseeker, I host and support osCommerce loaded You can read the oscommerce manual to see if it has the features you need. I have also PMed you a number of links of some of my customers so you see decide if the look/style will be professional as you put it. To clarify, you can buy any web template and make osCommerce adapt that style - example in the PM. You can try the demo at the same site as the oscommerce manual and get in touch for more questions. Scott
Hi Scott, Please can you give me a comparision between the solutions provided by b2bparadise, osCommerce and monstercommerce, in terms of price, per sales cost, design, secure payment support, customer and inventory management etc. It will be more helpful for me to decide. Eseeker
if you are looking at OSC based sites we have a heavily modified cart that you can buy. Visiti www.dpbuk.co.uk for more information
Eseeker, I think you're getting hung up on the "hosted" part. Places like Yahoo! stores will sell you a shopping cart service. Other places, such as Scott's solution, are simply hosting companies that host either an open source shopping cart system, like OSCommerce, or a commercial shopping cart like Miva. Which type of solution is best? Neither! They both provide you with the tools you need to run an online business. It's just a matter of picking the interface you like the best, and one that has the features you want. Google is your friend. The harder part is accepting online payments. If you're in the USA, you're in luck. Merchat acquirers (I have personally had a great experience with Corey at Loudcommerce.com) will bend over backwards to get you approved. If you're anywhere else, it can range from lengthy to near impossible. Hope that helps a bit BP
I hope, AJ Shopping cart script will be helpful for you in making shopping cart site with out any hosting issues.
Hi OP, We have used Pinnacle cart and it's quite a really good solution - For what you get out of the box it is great.!! You can also try 3d Cart - I have been recommended this cart by a few people and also BigCommerce is quite good!
You may able to get a hosting that able to support the storage and the traffic of your website. They get a control panel from your hosting provider with softaculous. You may find out that inside there do have lot of choice of shopping cart system is available for you . Then you may try which to use it.
Magento is the best hosted ecommerce platform. It offers complete flexibility and control over the users experience, content, and functionality of their online store. 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.
Magento is probably your best option. I think its the best you can get before a custom built solution. Personally I would avoid, oscommerce, zencart and cre as these tend to be old hat now and suffer more issues and vulnerabilities - IMO. Magento offer different levels and services. They have a free community version which is opensource however you will require your own hosting and have to build yourself. They also other a hosted solution called magento go, which I think is more what you are looking for.