eCommerce Cart for beginners.

I'm designing a website, and she wants to have an eCommerce cart on the site to resale her products. It will be small only featuring <100 items. I will do the initial design for her, but she wants to be able to edit it periodically herself. What type of program do you suggest. Her company is just now starting out so we have a limited budget.

Thanks!

 

Hi, AJ shopping Cart software is the best & most affordable, potent stable & richly-interfaced, E-commerce software package with the user friendly & the wide number of marketing-tailored features that can help you increase your online sales, promote repeat purchases, and boost customer satisfaction.It is the best software to create your online store.

 

Why not go open source? Plenty of the carts have pretty user friendly backends.

 

For that amount of products I suggest to use Joomla + VM. It will be easy to code custom design and manage for e-commerce beginners.

 

Magento would very nice to integrate with your site. Feature rich and flexible give you complete control and i think it would be cheaper since the only thing that would be added is a shopping cart.

 

I'll prefer to go for Joomla/Virtuemart. Very easy to use and great shopping cart.. very much flexible and very easy to code specially for beginners.

 

it depends on how IT savvy your are, if u're good, I recomment virtue cart in Joomla, if not, get those tht are free, has all the GUI thr whereby you dun nid any coding at all.

 

Thanks all I will be researching these programs more.

 

Also take a look at prestashop. I find the back end really easy to use and navigate.

 

There ia also opencart. It is very easy to use and has a very slick UI. You might also want to demo some others. You should check out opensourcecms.com, full demos of all the carts mentioned and then some.

 

I have used Opencart a few times and it is known across the web for its slick UI, and light load on servers. If however your looking for an eccomerce platform that offers a little bit more why not take a look at Prestshop. I think its a french creation, and they just keep updating it constantly. Search them on Google

One thing with it though is the way it handles images, instead of resizing the intial image it makes 5-6 copies of it in all the default sizes, and witha sie with 1000s of products this can become a resource hog. other than that is is a dime to work with and has a lot of in built modules that you would have to pay for on many carts.

Good luck

Daniel

Daniel