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Are you a geek ?
If your computer savvy Magento (must resist urge to type magneto) is the muts, iTrends on here did Dog Beds UK, Dog Accessories and more! - DogPod.co.uk in magento, its insanely powerfull, and you need to do alot of modding to get most other packages upto that level.
For ease osCommerce is nice and easy an very popular.
There are some paid versions for less geeky folk, but its the SMF vs vBull argument only with com packages.
If your computer savvy Magento (must resist urge to type magneto) is the muts, iTrends on here did Dog Beds UK, Dog Accessories and more! - DogPod.co.uk in magento, its insanely powerfull, and you need to do alot of modding to get most other packages upto that level.
For ease osCommerce is nice and easy an very popular.
There are some paid versions for less geeky folk, but its the SMF vs vBull argument only with com packages.
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Shopping cart - Magento, Shopify, Wordpress with this plugin
Depends how big the sites going to be and what payment gateway your looking at.
Depends how big the sites going to be and what payment gateway your looking at.
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Oh if you use an auto installer like Fantastico or Installatron, you may wanna add the sample products to see how to set it up, then when your ready to rock its easier to do a clean install and start from nothing 
I spent forever trying to work with the demo/sample products and just wanted to cry until I figured out I should start with a clean slate.
I spent forever trying to work with the demo/sample products and just wanted to cry until I figured out I should start with a clean slate.
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Magento can be resource hungry and can cause problems if on a shared server with a lot of products.
If it's a hand full of items i'd go for a simple option but if it's a full on shop then a dedicated/Virtual server and Magento then!
If it's a hand full of items i'd go for a simple option but if it's a full on shop then a dedicated/Virtual server and Magento then!
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Good Thread topic, Thanks for the info guys.
I had found Shopify Before but was not aware of Magento
After a quick scan, Looks GOOD.
I Am also looking for a Ecommerce shop, Ideally one that can integrate XML Feeds
It looks like Magento does not but could be customized to do so (customization a bit to expensive for me tho )
Looking around Shopify it is hard to tell if it supports XML feeds either.
John
I had found Shopify Before but was not aware of Magento
After a quick scan, Looks GOOD.
I Am also looking for a Ecommerce shop, Ideally one that can integrate XML Feeds
It looks like Magento does not but could be customized to do so (customization a bit to expensive for me tho )
Looking around Shopify it is hard to tell if it supports XML feeds either.
John
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ill try magneto now so will report back on its progress. if members have any tips, mods they recommend them please post here so we can all try them
thanks for replies so far.
thanks for replies so far.
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Be warned some hosting companies struggle with it to run correctly! So get it up to speed quick within 30 days just in case.
Magento takes about 2 hours to upload - then they tell you need to be running the latest version of php 5.2, I think.
Page load times are also slow - the forums are full of negative posts about speed.
I gave up on it after a few days. It looks great, if only it worked properly.
The biggest problem with wp-e-commerce is you can't override the meta tags so you end up with lots of duplicate content pages which is really bad for SEO.
Support seems to be none existent too.
eShop is the easiest cart I've found to get up and running plus it's compatable with SEO plugins. It just doesn't look as good as the others.
I'd also be interested to hear more suggestions though.
Page load times are also slow - the forums are full of negative posts about speed.
I gave up on it after a few days. It looks great, if only it worked properly.
The biggest problem with wp-e-commerce is you can't override the meta tags so you end up with lots of duplicate content pages which is really bad for SEO.
Support seems to be none existent too.
eShop is the easiest cart I've found to get up and running plus it's compatable with SEO plugins. It just doesn't look as good as the others.
I'd also be interested to hear more suggestions though.
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opencart is good... did distros.co.uk on the new 1.2 version. Lacks payment gateways yet. opencart 0.7 has more.
prestacart is also good.
cubecart, oscommerce, zencart. OK but use old architecture.
magento is good, but wtf! it's bulk with effectively 2 frameworks on top of each other. Not for the fainthearted!
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prestacart is also good.
cubecart, oscommerce, zencart. OK but use old architecture.
magento is good, but wtf! it's bulk with effectively 2 frameworks on top of each other. Not for the fainthearted!
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Or upload it zipped up and unzip on server!!!! Please tell me you don't upload all them 1000's of files?
not yet. I think guest checkout is on the development list.
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