Which is the best???

[serena]

There are so many ecommerce software ,such as oscommerce ,corncart,zencart,x-cart,etc,however, which one is the best one ?

 

[ken_uk]

I doubt there is a simple answer, as it depends on what you want to use it for exactly. Plus everyone has different tastes..

Each one will have different strengths and weaknesses.

 

[osicsophie]

As for open source shopping carts, you should have some knowledge about the technolodies they need to build your online store.
And X-cart or other paid shopping carts are out of the box and easy to use.

 

[FluxServices]

Dont most of them offer more or less services them each other, Not sure you could take that as a question or answer

 

[ServWise]

My favorites at the moment as Magento (Open source) and X-Cart (Paid) as they seem to offer the most professional user experience of all the systems currently available. In fact I'm currently developing two Magento sites so I think the clients must feel that way too.

 

[PrettyPaws]

EKM Powershop got my vote, it's great!

 

[dave_n]

i'm currently skinning a comersus system for a client.....easy to style and appears to have the complete functionality a SME would require.....its big downfall is it's lack of EDI but that could be developed separately quite easily

 

[mgmaryguan8]

Maybe you can try Corncart.Just go to their offical website and download it for a try.

 

[Toni Anicic]

My vote goes to Magento. It really has all the features a user could wish for and it's really flexible to modify (for developers who know what they're doing )

 

[imageonline]

I went with interent retailer who I found on this forum. It's great, check out my site.

 

[IS-James]

Another vote for Magento. I have just been using it on a project and the level of out of the box functionality is very good and so far it seems easy to add new features to. Changing the design of the site might be too complicated for someone who doesn't have web development experience but that is true of most of the systems if you want to make anything more than very basic changes.

I have used osCommerce in the past but the big problem with it is the way adding functionality works. Instead of having a module installation system any changes to the site need to be made to the core code. This means making laborious line by line changes to lots of different files for every addition as well as conflicts between contributions if they affect the same code. It also makes it very difficult to upgrade as new versions come out as all of the customisation work would have to be redone.

 

[Mr Happy]

Has anyone got a example of a up and running Magento website ?

 

[IS-James]

A good example of a successful site using Magento is www.timeout.com .

On the Magento site they have a showcase of sites which give a good variety.

http://www.magentocommerce.com/showcase

 

[Cromulent]

I'm launching a Magento website at some point this month. The newest patch that was released (1.2.1) seems to have fixed a few important bugs and added some useful features.

 

[Mr Happy]

I just had a look at the magento showcase, these sites look pretty good.
Surely Magento isn't in the same cost bracket as osCommerce?