advise on open source carts

[phoog]

I'm after a bit of advice
I've 1000's of products in 100's cats and 1000's of sub cats, all with the same description, attributes and prices, but different pics and titles, I'm looking for a cart that will make creating cat/sub cats and adding all these a bit quicker than Virtuemart (even with bulk attributes and add images as products)

does anyone know of anything that might help

Much appreciated

 

[bargainmania]

Take a look at zencart, it will certainly allow you to set category attributes and possibly site wide attributes depending on products

Alistair

 

[ghome1971]

I have used Actinic for over 10 years.

 

[midnight_caller2002]

Surely you need to just bulk upload these in CSV format, copy and paste across an excel spreadsheet, takes seconds and most carts allow you to upload products and pictures in this way.
We use tiger commerce and it deffo does.

 

[MatLamont]

Checkout open cart and have a look at the extentions available. Easy to use/customise and has lots of nifty extensions for admin work

 

[ecterra]

I'm after a bit of advice
I've 1000's of products in 100's cats and 1000's of sub cats, all with the same description, attributes and prices, but different pics and titles, I'm looking for a cart that will make creating cat/sub cats and adding all these a bit quicker than Virtuemart (even with bulk attributes and add images as products)

does anyone know of anything that might help

Much appreciated

hi,
most standalone open source shopping cart will help you.
best ones are 1) zencart & prestashop

cheers
Nonny

 

[Cris]

Avactis Shopping Cart has the ability to import and export catalog products via .csv format compatible with MS Excel.

 

[buygifts]

Prestashop will allow bulk csv import without installing any extensions.
Zen Cart and OSCommerce are similar but will require you to install one of the free easypopulate extensions.
You will have to upload product images separately via FTP and edit the csv to point to the locations.
An XML feed would be easier if you can get someone to program one for you.
Both Zen and OSCommerce soloutions will allow you to amend products via csv/xml (e.g. amounts, descriptions etc).
Prestashop as far as I'm aware will not natively allow bulk editing.

 

[That Guy]

OpenCart or Prestashop gets my vote

 

[finess]

An XML feed would be easier if you can get someone to program one for you.

 

[finess]

Easy to use/customise and has lots of nifty extensions for admin work

 

[CS-Cart]

You can have a look at CS-Cart Shopping Cart Software. CS-Cart works perfectly well with up to 500 000 products and allows category nesting. Products can be imported in bulk via a CSV file.

 

[phoog]

Cheers for all the replies I'm working through the shortlist of options and adding to virtuemart whilst watching TV etc, I can now add products in my sleep or whilst having in depth conversations about "proper" complex stuff !!!

 

[sridevi]

Zeuscart is the best free open source , incredibly stable & richly-interfaced ecommerce shopping cart software to create your store. It is simple,affordable and user friendly cart software

 

[tallulah31]

I'd go with Prestashop.

IMHO it offers the nicest layout and has a huge amount of plugins that add value (although you do have to pay for the really advanced ones)

I also believe you can link it directly to Google Shopping (don't know if Zen can do this so not sure whether this is a huge benefit or not?)

 

[mdyson]

I also believe you can link it directly to Google Shopping (don't know if Zen can do this so not sure whether this is a huge benefit or not?)

Yes, PrestaShop does work with Google Checkout, along with Authorize.net and several other payment gateways.

 

[WebcloHosting]

i always install Prestashop software for my customers, because is a robust software and has a lot of addons, to import produtcs from other carts is always possible using a Csv file to import the products.
But may others shopping carts software work the same way to import products.

Regards,
Pedro

 

[mdyson]

And in terms of easily adding your thousands of products, I personally use external software called "Store Manager for PrestaShop" to streamline the process in my big shop. It's got a 30-day free trial, so it's definitely a good place to start