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Best Shopping Cart?

Discussion in 'eCommerce' started by Brennan, Nov 24, 2007.

  1. stealth

    stealth Peon

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    #21
    the best shopping carts on the net are x-cart and cs-cart... both are excellent but personally i like cs-cart better because of the templates.
     
    stealth, Aug 17, 2009 IP
  2. Nigel Lew

    Nigel Lew Notable Member

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    #22
    No, and no. You will find its not prudent to post things to solely up your post count.

    Nigel
     
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  3. stealth

    stealth Peon

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    #23
    What are you on about... i didnt just reply to put my post count up, he asked what we think the best shopping cart is and i gave my answer.
     
    stealth, Aug 17, 2009 IP
  4. Nigel Lew

    Nigel Lew Notable Member

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    #24
    Whoa, my bad sir. I apologize. I thought I popped in on the first thread, not page two.

    I am sort of exausted, sorry again,

    Nigel
     
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    Code170 Well-Known Member

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    #25
    OSCommerce is the best option
     
    Code170, Aug 18, 2009 IP
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    #26
    Hi,

    The Best shopping cart is Paypal. in the paypal we must safe and easy process.

    Thanks

    Sushil Kumar
     
    midoxonline, Aug 18, 2009 IP
  7. colin104

    colin104 Peon

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    #27
    I agree that bundled Joomla and Virtuemart are the best open source ecommerce solution.
     
    colin104, Aug 20, 2009 IP
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    #28
    I normally prefer open source shopping carts, but the thing about them is that some are really hard to modify the templates like OsCommerce and Magento. I didn't find it easy for a normal guy to design a new site.
     
    marinhogomes, Aug 20, 2009 IP
  9. praesto

    praesto Active Member

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    #29
    Personally, i am stuck on OScommerce and i have used it twice. It works pretty nicely the only thing i see about it that i dont like is that i have to add alot of add-ons myself. There are a few things it should come with like Ip-recorder and stuff like that already.
     
    praesto, Aug 21, 2009 IP
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    vindointernational Greenhorn

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    #30
    oscommerce because there is a lot of contributions what you can use to improve your shop.
     
    vindointernational, Aug 21, 2009 IP
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    shalwan Banned

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  12. colin104

    colin104 Peon

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    #32
    I did some search on osCommerce vs. Magento comparison and I found three very informative posts by a single person. Make sure to read them to the end.

    Magento is way better. I have used OScommerce for 5 years now, I've written contributions and know it quite well. I have switched to Magento.
    Magento separates the html from the php, and uses CSS. No g$% d^*# tables. This makes it far easier to make your site google friendly, and far easier to control how your site looks and far easier to install templates and possible keep your site upgraded. OScommerce is a jumbled mass of html tables and php. Text that appears on a single web page could be spread out over 4 or 5 files. The basic OSCommerce site has very few options and good luck trying to figure out which contributions you need. Magento, is complicated, but has decent documentation, and has all the bells and whistles right out of the box. OSCommerce is so ugly, and takes a lot of work to get to look decent. You can spot an OScommerce site a glance. (good luck, newbie, trying to make significant changes on their infoboxes) Magento looks pretty decent to begin with and just by changing a single CSS file you significantly change the look.


    I would like to add to my above comment one simple, yet incredible feature that magento has that makes life a whole lot easier for newbies. If you are new to OSCommerce, you are going to spend many, many hours searching for where stuff is. For example, trying to change the line spacing in a infobox, or how to adjust the position of some image on the front page, or even finding where in the file structure the front page is.

    You will do the same in Magento, however, in Magento the documentation tells you how with a few clicks in the admin panel, you can cause the user side, or frontend of the website to appear with labels on every single element where that element can be found in the file structure.

    For those of us who have struggled for years to figure out where all the stuff is scattered about in the OScommerce file structure, it is like you've died and gone to heaven, or like some expert shopping cart guru is sitting around constantly hitting the refresh button, waiting to immediately answer your next trivial question (ie 'where can I find X or Y') in a clear, specific, and precise manner .


    I spent over 2 weeks working with Magento and have changed m mind about it. I don't like it. Can you say 6,000 files? 200 tables in a database? The empty Magento database is 20 times larger than an empty OSCommerce database. Have you already learned some HTML, CSS and a little php? Well, you are pretty much ready for OSCommerce. But Magento? You have just begun.

    Yes, OScommerce is a mismash of php and HTML, but then so what? What I have discovered is that the few days spent stripping tables out of OSCommerce and replacing them with <div> tags with CSS is a far easier task than figuring out Magento. Don't forget, 6000 files.

    And yes, the basic OSCommerce cart is ugly and it is an issue figuring out how to install contributions.

    In the end, though there is one thing you are not going to change, Magento is slow. And a slow cart loses customers. Look at the showcase sites on Magento, the carts just feel draggy and sticky. You get to the point where you don't want to flip around pages in the site because you know everytime you click a link, you are going to wait.

    With OScommerce is snappy, instant page changes. You can change oscommerce's ugliness and lack of features, but you will never make Magento run quick.
     
    colin104, Aug 21, 2009 IP
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    #33
    hi, i am new on this forum and i want to know how can i start my own e-commerce services.
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    aad!
     
    saraswat, Aug 22, 2009 IP
  14. CheapSEO

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    #34
    I use Magento Commerce store. now you can decide which one is better for you.
     
    CheapSEO, Aug 23, 2009 IP
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    #35
    Can you share a link to your store?
     
    colin104, Aug 23, 2009 IP
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    ballerblocking01 Banned

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    #36
    I myself like 3dcart
     
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    ardianbudi Well-Known Member

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    #37
    I suggest you try Prestashop. Simple, Looks preety, and SEO Optimized. I also using this shopping cart to do my business.
    anyway if you need help you can pm me.
     
    ardianbudi, Aug 23, 2009 IP
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    It all depends the amount of Products you are going to be offering, whether they are physical or virtual products and if you need to integrate a shipping provider.

    For my larger sites I use X-Cart, tons of features, great support, terrific backend, great reports, loads of features
    For my medium sites I use 1shoppingcart, I also use it for my virtual products. This one is a little more tricky to get a hang of and I don't really like the Admin-side backend navigation, but the Newsletter/broadcasting setup on this on is exceptional
    For my smaller sites I use SunShop by TurnKeyWebTools, incredibly easy to customize themes/skins, add products, integrated shippers, virtual products, back-end is very easy to use and navigate
     
    SCLocal, Aug 25, 2009 IP
  19. SilverCake

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    #39
    very cool indeed
     
    SilverCake, Aug 25, 2009 IP
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    #40
    but be carefull, best shopping cart is not a guarantee you will make a huge sale,
    I agree with collin104 in this manner..
     
    bluebenz, Aug 25, 2009 IP