Magento e-commerce or Alternative?

[Stephen]

Does anybody please have experience building a website with

https://www.magentocommerce.com

if not are there any alternative shopping cart add on's for a UK e-commerce website?

 

[GreyWing]

Joomla - with Hikashop added on,

http://demo.hikashop.com/index.php?lang=en

Obviously you can use your own design template. It's free and very very easy to use.

 

[optiweb]

Magento is pretty resource hungry, so you'll need a VPS at least to run it + it's quite a steep learning curve.

Prestashop seems 'okay' - but it is very limited when it comes to product variations.

Opencart gets a lot of good reviews - but I personally found it restrictive when looking for themes / designs.

I've recently been working with woocommerce - which is a free wordpress plug in. You are limited to woocommerce compatible themes when using it - but there are plenty of nice responsive ones on themeforest etc. No issues to report as yet.

I guess it really depends on the size of your store / amount of products & variations you plan to have.

 

[max99x]

I use Magento and it's great but as said its very resource heavy so you need special hosting which will cost you more.

 

[bensdbensd is verified member.]

I use opencart which I'm happy with. It's a custom design so can't comment on themes though

 

[scooter]

zen cart for me. I love it. Super short learning span. Loads of templates out there.

Great back end.
(so has zen cart)

Integrates immediately with paypal and a few others straight out of the box. You can refund/part refund paypal transactions within the admin control panel.

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[Stephen]

Thanks

Thanks very much for all your input, it is much appreciated.

I'm going to look at what is required again for the new website and compare it best I can to the many suggestions provided.