Some Feedback Wanted on a New E-commerce Engine

[Cart45]

Hi

After spending many years running a successful web development company, we got a little bored of wrestling with Actinic and other established e-commerce engines. So much so that we have spent the last few months creating our own.

The main idea was to ensure that we built a system that was simple enough for most people to install, but had enough power to cope with bigger business. Crucial requirements were that the overall system had to be lightweight, fast easily customisable with CSS and of course SEO ready.

We also wanted to ensure that the base system was not "bloatware" so rather than it having every last single feature crammed in, we decided that we will open the source up to other developers and designers who can make and sell their own modules such as extra merchant support, custom shipping and other extras. This means the system stays light, and the end user doesn't pay for features they don't want.

We launched the system officially last week and have so far had some very positive reviews from the web design community, but I'm really interested in the feedback from more businesses and shop owners.

So, please take a look at our site my username plus dot com and let me know what you think.

PS, I'd also love to hear from shop owners and ecommerce developers about what they really would like from an ecommerce engine. What would be your perfect feature list?

Thanks for your time.

Andy

[TotallySport]

Well I wouldn't use it, just from landing on your home page, the navigation show in the screen shot within the banner is on the wrong side, which would make me click back without looking at the rest.

To be honest it offers nothing more than what all the other template sites, you site does nothing to inforce a USP, or any thing special compared to other more establish template sites.

Although the line "Cart45 Admin areThere are 3 main user types" means it will not grwo with my business, what happens if I want HR, Accounts, Buying, Ordering.

I know you have only been going a week, but you need to get examples, videos with good information and detail and maybe some tutorials so people have a better understanding. your content is very text rich which doesn't say anything new.

Good Luck

[consultant]

the cart looks interesting, however, there is a price display issue on the demo page, as well as product boxes not aligning.

Looking at your site it does talk a lot about SEO/SEF design, but doesnt really mention the actual ecommerce features.

Fiddling with the demo -

It doesnt apper to have Paypal or any other settlement type than google and protx,

Delivery options appear limited, as to how it is calculated!

You seem to have the foundation for something very interesting, but I feel it was built from a designers perspective not an etailers (nothing strictly wrong with that) it work fine for many people just wanting a presence on the web.

Good luck with it!