Help with a new eshop

[preciousbags]

Hi all,

I am still debating how to create another eshop. I was leaning towards magento earlier but now find that i wont have time to learn and not sure how hard it is.

Also i want costs to be quite low at the moment.

Although my second site needs to look extremely good. I am wondering what other ecomm solutions i have? Even if they are providers like tiger commerce or ekmshop etc.

Thanks in advance

 

[MASSEY]

I saw this the other day looks quite good and easy to play with

http://www.opencart.com/

 

[That Guy]

OpenCart is great! So easy to setup and customise. I used it for a friends site.

Best of all its free! The support forum is quite good too.

 

[evocart]

Zen Cart is also a good quality ecommerce cart that is fairly easy to customise and manage, personally I wouldn't go with a company that you are tied to as what happens when your business grows and you want to move host? Or if they close down? Always think ahead.

PS OpenCart is good, sadly just lacking on the theme front due to it being relatively new compared to some of the others.

 

[wwdg]

We work with EKMPowershop all the time and is very good as a e-commerce platform. Plus their is an online community there who are generally very helpful when people are having issues.

And as a bonus they are also re-working and re-designing alot of the areas of the platform.

EKM isn't without it's fault but no platform is.

Woody

 

[Vacman2000]

OsCommerce is great, but get the creloaded version

 

[tony84]

Im a big fan of prestashop.com
2 of my sites:
www.aclubbersguide.net
www.thegirlyshop.co.uk
Both made using prestashop - 1 is a custom made theme, the other is a free theme that i have customised a little bit.

 

[Homesware]

Hi all,

I am still debating how to create another eshop. I was leaning towards magento earlier but now find that i wont have time to learn and not sure how hard it is.

Also i want costs to be quite low at the moment.

Although my second site needs to look extremely good. I am wondering what other ecomm solutions i have? Even if they are providers like tiger commerce or ekmshop etc.

Thanks in advance

Try bigcommerce, it is much more feature rich and advanced than any other shopping cart in the market. It requires little technical knowledge and you can set it up within minutes.

Give it a try, you would not be disappointed!!

 

[That Guy]

it is much more feature rich and advanced than any other shopping cart in the market.

I wouldn't go that far!

 

[evocart]

And what happens if you want to move host or they go under for some reason? I suspect that not only will you loose your ecommerce store but your customers and income as well.

Always make sure you have as much control over your hosting and site as possible.

 

[fix]

Actinic, not the cheapest but not exactly expensive either and is good software.

 

[preciousbags]

Thanks, some good suggestions. Will have a think about it and decide

 

[jeff123]

Hi,

We use Joomla which is a very nice open platform and many of the tools required for shopping cart can be purchased quite cheaply, the database is also built in and again its quite easy to configure the database components for list building etc.

Jeff,

 

[Vacman2000]

Why buy it is all free
look at www.wowcleamproducts.com
I did buy the template but was only $120 I think

 

[profitxchange]

I have been exploring Prestashop as a newbie to ecommerce and so far it has all the stuff i need. It also has a very supportive community. Lots of bolt on stuff much of it free or very low cost. well worth a try.
Downside - the WIKI library is just enough to get going but for me coming from a standing start and wanting a bit more than the basics I will probably buy the user manual.

 

[les78]

Hi

I have just read this thread as I am thinking about moving away from EKMpowershop to Magento. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with both mainly with regards to SEO and which one you had better success with?

Sorry if this is a little off topic but the more seo friendly the platform the better imo which may help the op in deciding which platform to go for.

 

[WebWizard]

Great idea. I develop websites & online ecommerce storefronts weekly usually about 10-15 a week. Usually $200-$250 is great a package for those with a low budget looking to break into the online marketplace.

I have 48hour turnarounds on Storefronts. I think its better to have someone to do the work custom then get premade templates lol.

Keeps it orginal im always here to help!