Ecommerce Software

[hougtimo]

Ok, I'm lost. Completely.

I've been trawling through various packages all morning and am non the wiser.

All the solutions that are recommended here seem to be hosted solutions; ideally I'm looking to buy a package I can host on my server.

Any reccomendations?

Thankies.

[Humphrey]

For basic sites were you are selling a small number of items I suggest WebPlus X4 by Serif, this is a new version just out.
You can check out the current special offers here (http://www.dpbolvw.net/click-3670721-10541921) and get a 30 day money back trial.

[mattsaw]

I'm a big fan of Magento, it's free but in terms of features it's as good (usually better) as any paid solutions that I have used.

It can be quite resource hungry though, it's best to used a higher spec server or a host that is optimised for it.

[janice171]

Assuming you require a full ecommerce solution, I would also recommend Magento as it's standards compliant and has a lot of good features.
I have used OsCommerce quite a bit but it's a bit harder to integrate your own design in order to get it up to web standards.
BTW...Web standards are an important consideration with any website and also with ecommerce SEO Url's are a good thing to look out for.

[JohnnyD]

Ok, I'm lost. Completely.

I've been trawling through various packages all morning and am non the wiser.

All the solutions that are recommended here seem to be hosted solutions; ideally I'm looking to buy a package I can host on my server.

Any reccomendations?

Thankies.
Having it hosted on someone elses server isn't such a bad thing when it comes down to the security side of things... such as PCI compliance

[Michelle_HLD]

I agree with JohnnyD - PCI compliance is a massive thing at the moment and hosting your site on your own server could prove really expensive with all the scans and security measures you will need to undertake. :(

Do you have an idea of budget if you don't mind me asking. Your budget will dictate if you can go for something a little less off the shelf and a far more impressive to customers. They type of site you have will have a huge impact on your conversion rate.

What sort of products are you selling?

[willitbe]

Does the link in the OP post not cause any concern for anyone?

[Martfox Hosting UK]

Ok, I'm lost. Completely.

I've been trawling through various packages all morning and am non the wiser.

All the solutions that are recommended here seem to be hosted solutions; ideally I'm looking to buy a package I can host on my server.

Any reccomendations?

Thankies.

Hi, I have tried many, many shopping carts before and must say one:

I love CS-Cart, I moved to X-Cart 2 moths ago but have recently decided to go back to CS-Cart after much reviewing of another scripts.
Interspire SC was my second choice, and there are still a couple of features that I would love to see in CS Cart.

1. (and I know this is a big mod) proper order management and partial shipping of orders/individual item shipping. This would then allow for proper back orders, part payment of orders, etc etc.

2. The order process in the admin is excellent. Select customer or new customer or anon customer first, then on same page add products using ajax seach on SKU or description. Very clean process, very fast (important when you have a customer on the phone).

3. Tracking numbers for all orders (haven't found this yet in CS).

4. Allow customer to buy product? Checkbox. When unticked, an option becomes available to display price or message to customer (useful as sometimes there are products available offline only but still want them in the store).

If you want to make a business then must have a little bit of money for begin. My experience with the all free open source carts is not the best. Sure they cost nothing, but if you need a help.... Yes your help desk is the Google only. I have a few online business sites and my last (and must say the best) choice was CS Cart. It cost realy "nothing" and you get all features, the best support (the Interspire is a nightmare) and 1 year free upgrades, all what a online store need. I don't buy my CS Cart licenses direct by the company, but from a reseller page webdesign-creative.com, they sell it for $217, the price on the CS Cart site is $265, and they have often a special price (it is a coupon code) and you get yet $20 off the price. But I don't know if it's actualy, must looking on the site or on Google for cs cart coupon code.

Yes guys, the TIME is money and if you want a free cart, then must spend 100+++ hours with setup, design, bugs, and, and, and....
I am very satisfied with my CS Cart and trust me, if you want to make a serious business and want many of customers and visitors, then you need a serious tools to do it.

[Martfox Hosting UK]

Ok, I'm lost. Completely.

I've been trawling through various packages all morning and am non the wiser.

All the solutions that are recommended here seem to be hosted solutions; ideally I'm looking to buy a package I can host on my server.

Any reccomendations?

Thankies.

...yes, and go to letshost.ie, thats a very good hosting provider.

[cellweb]

[quote=Michelle_HLD;1036644]I agree with JohnnyD - PCI compliance is a massive thing at the moment and hosting your site on your own server could prove really expensive with all the scans and security measures you will need to undertake. Hi Michelle, As far as I know If they run a site and have paypal or Google checkout do the card processing - then they do not need to worry about PCI compliance.

[cellweb]

hello,

It all depends on your requirements
Are you a coder or even just a rookie who can understand what to change ?
Do your products require no, medium or heavy customisation ?
Are you hosting on apache or IIS ?
What additional extra features do you require of your products, image drill down in detail ? , 3d spinning of images, are you offering digital downloads.
Do you need your site to be SEO'd ?
DO you want a simple website with paypal buttons or a site with it's own database etc
There are many man more questions - then after you know your requirements you have to find a product that suits your needs
Good luck
Peter
just done this one
cadremont
and pretty proud of it

[5star]

Ok, I'm lost. Completely.

I've been trawling through various packages all morning and am non the wiser.

All the solutions that are recommended here seem to be hosted solutions; ideally I'm looking to buy a package I can host on my server.

Any reccomendations?

Thankies.


Why you do not try out Infyecommercesolutions.com provider company which is specilist in this domain and provide best and cheap services according to your plan.Check portfolio page for your solution which matching to your business.

Infy
E-commerce,SEO and bussiness solution provider

[webhostuk]

Try Magento ..it really get application.

[cellweb]

Though Magento is good, it's resource hungry, I wouldnt use it if you are using a shared server (which you probably are). Prestashop doesnt step up to the plate as far as product generation goes. Actinic in my opinion is good , but, it has a very strange way of working, for example you have to download orders from the site, it cant email orders to you, and it doesnt use a database, from memory. For the original poster he needs to know what features and functions he wants and then road test a product to see if its for him. He also needs to look at paid for software, that has a good community base and a development team that know where they want to take the product. Is it Ajax based, can you drag and drop products onto a shopping bag. Can you run discounts and coupons, can you seperate users into groups so as to offer wholesale and retail prices etc etc etc - it's a long old process

[5star]

Can there is anykind of trial available which can I test on my local ecommerce project.Than can Only I make any point on it.

[3cellhosting]

Can there is anykind of trial available which can I test on my local ecommerce project.Than can Only I make any point on it.

Almost all of the free commerce packages can be tested on live or local servers. Many rely on php so if you are using a live server just leave a page called index.html in the public folder. It will act as a holding page.

There are many options for adding a local server - wamp and xamp are both popular.

Hope this helps.

David

[downsouth]

Loads of carts around but i'd pick one from this lot

Zen Cart
VirtueMart (via Joomla)
Magento
Oscommerce

I personally use Zen + Virtuemart on a couple of the sites I run.

[ICEY]

Have a look at Bluepark (http://www.bluepark.co.uk), it has a whole host of features and is one of the best hosted ecommerce systems I've come across.

[jayneamaxwell]

Personally, I would reccomend CubeCart and the tailored package provided by Site Groung Hosting!