Hi guys, i'm looking at starting an online shop for some products i've created. I heard that Shopify (www.shopify.com) is pretty good, what do you guys use?
I use magentocommerce.com, it's open source and therefore free. It's very powerful, fairly easy to use and there's a useful forum of other users. Q
osCommerce is great. It has been stable for a long time, so you can find 100's of plugins which all work.
There are some brilliant scripts out there, really depends what sort of thing you want, as they all offer different features. Off the top of my head, here are three that I can think of: www.oscommerce.com www.zencart.com www.prestashop.com Good luck!
my choice: magento! it's free (open source) and has forums that i can ask any question regarding to that scripts! just my 5cents!
I use osCommerce with my two primary e-commerce businesses, but if I designed a site from scratch today -- i would definitely use Magento over osCommerce.
I agree, magneto is really good. One more vote for it But if you are looking for something professional, I think you should try interspire shopping cart. EDIT: Ooops, sorry for bumping a little bit old thread :-\
oscommerce is an outdated framework. magento is the future BUT it takes considerable resources to modify the code. Unless you use it out of the box or are a seasoned programmer I wouldn't suggest it. Also you will likely need VPS or dedicated hosting because magento runs very slow on shared hosting.
I never used it before, but going by this forum thread would advise everyone to stay away from prestashop for now.
I strongly believe that a person willing to have a good shopping center needs to invest something in it - at least by purchasing necessary software. I find InterSpire Shopping Cart software quite adept for all needs. The thing I particularly liked about it is that it has integrated affiliate system which can really help boosting your sales.
I came to this forum because of Shopify and am extremely happy with it; super extensible and customisable because of its Ruby on Rails heritage.