new website platform?

[dave1928]

Looking to start again with a new ecommerce website. Lost touch with whats what with the better companies to use so any recommendations?? looking at standard ecommerce site retailing products (about 100 or so to start)
Currently use 123-reg at £20 per month.
Thanks

 

[Bonadza Vojo]

You could also look into the free open-source ecommerce platform solutions such as:
Magento
Opencart
Drupal Commerce

 

[14Steve14]

Using the search function within these forums would have given you many topics to select from. I dare say peoples opinions have not altered too much.

Your best bet is to use a search engine to find what you are after, then you have to narrow down the search depending on the features that you require.

 

[antropy]

Yes this question does get asked a lot so I reviewed a few shopping carts here:
http://www.antropy.co.uk/blog/shopping-cart-review/

 

[Danmill]

magento is good, and 123 reg is a good site.

Be very careful over hosting.

 

[Danmill]

p.s WordPress also has e-commerce plug ins but dependant on size, Magento is more complex and better for large shops

 

[sailboatvn]

Looking to start again with a new ecommerce website. Lost touch with whats what with the better companies to use so any recommendations?? looking at standard ecommerce site retailing products (about 100 or so to start)
Currently use 123-reg at £20 per month.
Thanks

I would strongly recommend to use one of these 2 open source ecommerce : Prestashop and Magento.

These two are very well known, secure and load features to offer.

All you need is a hosting, cost around £50 - £100 per year and install ecommerce on it.

Good luck

 

[sailboatvn]

p.s WordPress also has e-commerce plug ins but dependant on size, Magento is more complex and better for large shops

Wordpress is for blog and it is current being targeted by a lot of hackers am afraid. 3 of my wordpress websites got hacked couple of weeks ago and it took me few days to resolve.

 

[Nuno]

Wordpress is for blog and it is current being targeted by a lot of hackers am afraid. 3 of my wordpress websites got hacked couple of weeks ago and it took me few days to resolve.

WordPress moved beyond just being for blogs some time ago. It is not the best solution for ecommerce but the new Woo ecomm plugin is changing that.

Still, if I were setting up an ecomm site of any size I'd not use WordPress.

(The hack attack on WordPress lasted basically for a couple of days, and I'm sorry you were hacked. Hopefully you have hardened your installs by now as the hack relied on people using the default 'admin' as user, and a fairly easy password. It was a brute force attack aimed at WordPress because there are so many users, because it's good.)

 

[sailboatvn]

Absolutely, most of open source CMS can be converted into ecommerce system easily by install an ecommerce plugin or extension. It is purely for web application purpose btw.

If we want a shop, lets go with a proper shopping cart software

 

[WolfStores]

Hi Dave,

Another vote for Prestashop. This is a free to use open source ecommerce platform with lots of free templates to choose from (as well as premium paid templates, budget permitting). With Prestashop you would pay much less than what you pay today depending on the hosting you choose.

Magento is equally good but a lot harder to set up and manage.

PM me if you need more free advice or access to demo Prestashop online shops

Best Regards,

Tim

 

[webstore]

If you want the best it has to be Magento CE !

 

[Cart By Design]

There is a new solution coming to the market soon. It mixes the power of blogging, documentation and ecommerce into one simple yet highly customisable system. Although it may not be ready within the timescale for your project, it is due for release in 2013.

 

[rashisree]

Hi, Try with ZS Cart which is the best hosted & easy to use shopping cart software to create your store.

 

[Shelly Watson]

Magento is a good choice.

 

[iKam]

If your looking for an advanced shopping cart which is powerful yet future proof Magento is the way forward. It will cost you more to get it working exactly how you want but the features of this cart are never ending. The community is huge so support is around on forums.

It's defiantly the way forward. It's not as simple as opencart etc

 

[SidRhyes]

You can go for Magento, Drupal, open cart , these are some of the finest ecommerce platforms that you can use.

magento product entry , magento data entry

 

[dave1928]

Magento Go looks interesting. Saves downloading software and not stuck to using the one computer! £9.99 a month for 100 products so that should get me started nicely.
Any more feedback on this?

 

[j600com]

Every other thread seems to be a which platform is best. Really could do with a sticky about this - listing the pros and cons of each platform, and who they're ideally suited to (e.g the learning curve, support costs, available modules etc) I think it would help users get the answers they need, and also keep it all in one thread.

 

[Bluepark]

Every other thread seems to be a which platform is best. Really could do with a sticky about this - listing the pros and cons of each platform, and who they're ideally suited to (e.g the learning curve, support costs, available modules etc) I think it would help users get the answers they need, and also keep it all in one thread.

Yes, they do tend to blend into one another!

 

[CraigHays]

Shopify offer a very good managed and hosted solution.

 

[alexlhh]

magento is good but too complex and requires a lot more than other platforms do when you host it.

 

[Cart By Design]

We've finally managed to get a demo up... check out our facebook page for those interested