Your preferred ecommerce/shopping cart software?

[Egg]

Hi guys,

I'm creating my first online web store and wanted to know from the forum users what software they prefer to use with helping to create an online shopping cart/payment process, or do you just use the Paypal interface..?

Thanks in advance
Egg

 

[Blossom]

OpenCart is really your best bet, since it's free and a lot easier to use than most of the others.

Magento is good if you want to create the next Amazon, but it's pretty overwhelming for your first store and you don't really want it on shared hosting either.

 

[monaghan]

I've been looking at ECWID for an integration project for a recent customer. This is a hosted cart which you can drop into your Facebook or blog with ease. In addition to the usual back end sales management, it has a notification API so it will "call" other apps so you can hook into accounts (this is where I've been looking at - www.kfsync.co.uk) or make a notification to a fulfilment partner (drop shipping and so on)

As mentioned above, OpenCart looks good but back-end documentation seems quite limited (often an issue with Open Source), there are various solutions to drop into WP, Drupal & Joomla if you want to go with a CMS based system. ZenCart is another option to look at.

 

[spiderspider]

Magento is very good, but as Blossom says, it can be very overwhelming for a new user. It can be ran on a shared server (i've done this) as long as your plan is good, as it can be resource hungry.

ZenCart / Oscommerce have been around for years, and have many plugins etc. Great if you know a little php coding, but getting old now.

There are some good paid for plugins for Wordpress, the free ones don't really cut the mustard.

 

[tifosi]

magento & opencart as pure cart software

woocommerce for WP integration with shopp & wp-ecommerce as fallbacks.

 

[redbird]

Not that common but growing in popularity is Prestashop. I set up a few demo sites using some of the main software solutions and let my client decide on which he preferred.

He went for the Prestashop version primarily based on the ease of use of the backend and we have been using it now for over two years and have to say I quite like it although it is the only one I really have much experience of as I don't run any other shops using any of the other solutions.#

Worth a look at least, they have a demo backend you can log into.

Dave

 

[eddieb]

OSCMAX, its Oscommerce with loads of addons already built in. Very easy to set up and change as you wish, SEO friendly urls etc, very helpful support forum

 

[Egg]

Thanks all for your speedy help and advice.
I think i'm going to give OpenCart a bash and will let you know how I get on.

Thanks again
Egg

 

[GotLiveChat]

+1 on Magento, and if you're not technically skilled enough to set it up, I saw they have their GO service. Apparently it's hosted on their servers, does a have a fee but everything is managed - just needs to be configured with your products.