What is the best ecommerce solution?

Discussion in 'eCommerce' started by Meanna Blog, Sep 20, 2008.

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    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?
     
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  2. quogger

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    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
     
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    osCommerce is great.
    It has been stable for a long time, so you can find 100's of plugins which all work. :)
     
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    i like prestashop or magneto there both web 2.0 and open source
     
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  5. kiteguy123

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    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!
     
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    my choice: magento!

    it's free (open source) and has forums that i can ask any question regarding to that scripts!

    just my 5cents!
     
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    magento is the future of shopping cart.
     
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    mentos Prominent Member

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    I'm using OsCommerce and its the best among many script i used before
     
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    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.
     
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    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 :-\
     
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    osCommerce would lead the way. I highly suggest you use it.
     
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    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.
     
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    We use X-Cart with hundreds of modules, and Ubercart for Drupal.
     
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    I never used it before, but going by this forum thread would advise everyone to stay away from prestashop for now.
     
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    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.
     
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    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.
     
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    One thing that I just did was add e-junkie to a drupal site. very easy...
     
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