Shopping cart with good front and backend - LF

Hi all I am currently running setting up a shop running interspire (sales.spacioushost.com), however I'm sick of the shopping cart as most of my competitors are using it. So i'm looking for a cart that has that same nice feel to it whilst also having a great back-end. Anyideas?

 

Oscommerce is one i am using. I have found the back end of this shopping cart is very easy to use. Front end does have a nice feel.

 

Magento Commerce has tons of great features and a very robust backend - but the learning curve is high
OpenFreeway - is a osCommerce project fork and has a slick AJAX powered backend

Joomla! + VirtueMart also has a great backend and because the ecommerce (Virtuemart) is separated from the general backend it is much easier to expand.

 

Besides Magento is rather slow on shared servers

 

Agree, magento is mainly for semi or dedicated server. It's due to the zend framework they use.

 

Also the Zend server is highly recommended for Magento
http://www.zend.com/en/products/server/

 

You can also try cubecart, or also oscommerce has much of support and addons

 

while I prefer open source apps like Magento, there is nothing wrong with interspire.

oscommerce is complete crap compared to either of them.

Nigel

 

Magento or vm + joomla are great - I love interspire personally

 

Have had OsCommerce for two years and I am now in the process of migrating all of my stores to OpenCart. Much simpler to use and doesn't break everytime you try and change something. We have one store with over 18000 products in it and it is very fast on a shared host.

 

see: http://www.viart.com/online_store_features_list.html

 

Also if you have sometime you may have a look at the new system its called "PrestaShop"
you may find it on website : prestashop.com

 

I use ZenCart and have no real complaints. I have made alot of custom code modifications to suit my site though.

 

You are sick of the cart just because your competitors are using it? If it is used so much, there must be a reason for that.

 

Use ZenCart or CubeCart both are pretty decent scripts

 

I am using Magento for some time now, and I think it very good tool. I did huge amount of customization on the server side and the client side.

Cheers
Sty

 

Here's a screenshot from a highly customized cre loaded 6.4 b2b we just finished. We are very picky about back end usability. When you have employees working in the stores all day long (although not this one - this one was just finished), it needs to have a high level of functionality and simplicity. The front ends are simple enough to customize, a crappy back end ruins a script package IMHO.

http://www.siliconecouplers.com/screens/sil-cplrs.jpg

 

SpaciousHost, have you managed to make a decision yet? What kind of products do you plan to sell - is it hosting plans or something else?

 

Have a look at my carts: http://flashoppingcart.com/products.html

 

im really surprised that you don't like interspire - i find it to be one of the best "paid" solutions out there for e-commerce