Looking for shopping cart software!

[diane]

Hi all,
I have e-commerce site and I’m looking for shopping cart software. Does anyone know where I can get it with good futures?
Any suggestion will be highly appreciated!!!

 

[Wiggy]

I had my first two carts built in-house, it helps when you are married to a developer. For the third and current incarnation, we went with 'LiteCommerce' from the same Russian company that makes 'XCart'.
I like this because my staff can raise support issues when I am on holiday [with my Developer ] Also, they will configure it to do whatever you want. My back end took me 3 months to spec and took them 3 weeks to build with some testing. . .It has pretty much all the functionality I need for inventory control, VAT returns etc. I don't really know how competitive they are on price, because I never used to pay but it seemed very reasonable. . .

 

[Savvy]

I can highly recommend CS-Cart which I use for both my stores: metrojoe.co.uk and thetoyfarm.com and have found it to be both feature full and incredibly easy to use and master.

At $195, you can't go far wrong plus you get 30 days free support to help you through the teething stages. Plus there is a fantastic community forum where members actively help out fellow CS-Cart users anyway they can.

There is a new release (1.3.5) currently in its Beta phase which looks to be mighty impressive and has addressed many of the issues and feature requests from the community.

 

[Chris Ashdown]

Try Actinic . co .uk good selection to meet most needs

 

[Steve2507]

If you want the ability to change the design (significantly) and have full control over the code then go with VPASP (www.vpasp.com).

I've tested dozens of ecommerce software packages and VP wins ahead of them all.

 

[Stainless]

Zen Cart is very, very nice - and open-source, too.
I'd give you a link, but bizarrely, I can't post them until I've made fifteen other posts. So you'll have to do a Google search, I'm afraid.

 

[RedEvo]

xcart gets the job done.

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[Tigglet]

I would also recommend Actinic.

 

[kulture]

I would also recommend litecommerce. It is a easy to use package and has the UK tax system covered. It is made by the same people as xcart. It is NOT suitable for large (over 2,000) products as it gets slow.

I find that if you like to tinker and amend and heavily change a cart then xcart is better, but if you want a package that does most of what you want then Litecommerce is better.

That said you have not said what you want to sell, how many products you envisage, how many categories, what design control you want etc etc etc. All of which will have an effect on what cart is best FOR YOU. We are just saying whats best for US.

 

[deebee1000]

CS-Cart every time. I run 4 sites on this and it's a relatively easy piece of software to configure. More importantly, it is very search engine friendly and a breeze to get all your products listed on Google base through the admin of the cart.

 

[kulture]

CS-Cart looks nice. The point to consider for ANY cart is what YOU need. Litecommerce looks almost identical to CS cart and is cheaper. BUT cs-cart has some features that LC does not. BUT LC supports a lot more payment gateways, including UK specific ones.

The only thing that always worries me is the lack of telephone contact or address on a vendors site.

 

[deebee1000]

There are multiple gateways supported including Nochex, a very active forum and a great support ticketing system. The dev. team are based in Russia so as long as you can handle the timezone difference, you're OK.

I arrived at CS-Cart after wasting weeks on OS Commerce and Cube Cart. Not tried Litecommerce but I'll take a look as not all clients want the top heavy features that CS offers.

 

[kulture]

Litecommerce is russian too.

 

[randyrandy]

Hi,
I recently got a site called www Dot b1hosting.co.uk/e-com.php that provides shopping cart with full featured. It’s really ideal shopping cart software for e-commerce solution. Hope this will help you.
Good luck!

 

[emerchant]

you might like to give easywebstore a try, they have a good range of promotion options (Google Product Search / Sitemaps export etc) and Payment processor compatibility.

 

[Volusion]

If you don't have a developer on staff and aren't wanting to deal with hiring one, we have a great solution available to UK merchants. Our plans start at $29.95 a month, and we have quite a bit more features than Actinic.

I can't post a URL here, so if you Google "Volusion" we should pop up first. There is a free 14 day trial available on our site. If you have any questions, please give us a call at 805.416.5990.

 

[abrown]

You should take a look at our site www.paceretail.co.uk. We offer an all inclusive package for £30 / month. This includes a professional site, search engine optimised with unlimited products and support.

Kind Regards,


Andy.