Comments on: Shopping Cart Roundup

By: Albany Web Design

Albany Web Design — Sun, 25 May 2008 19:23:14 +0000

I looked into ubercart when the developer first started it. At the time I was looking for a cart that integrated with quickbooks. The creator of ubercart had this in the roadmap but I am not sure if he ever got to it. He does have some helpfull code and info on the quickbooks web connector.

By: trailhead

trailhead — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:40:37 +0000

Ubercart for Drupal gets my vote. I’ve been using it since beta 1 and it is rock-solid and extremely well written. It has hooks for everything I’ve wanted to do so far, and the template system is simple yet flexible. It is open source, but has commercial backing, so the code and community is high-quality. It does require using Drupal CMS, but Drupal is amazing as well.

By: bas

bas — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:34:24 +0000

Hi,
I use creloaded for years now, and sometimes a liitle buggy, but also powerfull!!
Bas
Webmaster Motortassen

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:45:56 +0000

I keep hearing things about Magento - but I haven’t seen anyone say they’re actually using it on a store. I looked at their demo - but is the demo’s features limited somehow? I could not find in the UI where you specify shipping and gateways/accepted payment methods… is that just the demo - or is that cart lacking some VERY serious features?? LOL

By: Henry C. Weismann IV

Henry C. Weismann IV — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:03:20 +0000

I too looked at all of the eccomerce options out there and they are, save one, all disappointing. I just want to thank johnny walker for his comment on this page regarding Magento. I had never heard of Magento before and put simply it is just amazing:

http://www.magentocommerce.com/

I speak from years of php experience and magento is the best e-commerce application I have ever seen from a coding standpoint. It makes oscommerce look like a script kiddie created it. It is powered by the Zend MVC framework which is amazing and only increases it’s future potential because what the zend developer community does for the zend framework can be easily added to magento. Then there is the magento community adding to the pot.

There is also good news for designers interested in the templating system. The templating system is css based and seperates the programming logic from the display completely like any MVC (Model View Controller - View is what you are interested in) framework should do.

From a coding standpoint ad possibly for some of you designers it is also good because it doesn’t use a cumbersome templating system like smarty which requires you to learn a new pseudo programming language as well as slow down processing time. It uses php as a templating language, which is fast and much easier to learn then smarty.

To top it off it comes with a modern interface and look including web 2.0 ajax usability in both the front and back end.

My search for a respectable e-commerce solution is over!

By: scriptygoddess » Blog Archive » Cube Cart vs. Zen Cart

scriptygoddess » Blog Archive » Cube Cart vs. Zen Cart — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:16:49 +0000

[...] and comments were made. I have indicated the versions of the software discussed in this thread on this post (and summarized some of the comments as well - consider that one the “Cliff Notes” [...]

By: Talina

Talina — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:27:23 +0000

I am wondering about angoracart.com and I was also looking for which carts were the most SEO friendly.

By: C. Thomas

C. Thomas — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 10:07:04 +0000

I think you should take a look at IXXO Cart Plus!. Its a real multi language system that robust features. There is an online demo without limitations.

By: johnnie walker

johnnie walker — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:02:58 +0000

I had problems getting Zen Cart setup the way I wanted but after a few weeks of tweaking stylesheets and reading the zen cart forums I finally got it looking and working how I wanted.

I would say there are still a few annoyances, such as the required customer registration and the fact that it’s pretty complicated until you get to know you’re way around it, however it is very flexible, has lots of useful add-ons such as ’sales report’ and most importantly for a shopping cart, very search engine friendly.

I am waiting for ‘Magento’ cart to become available as this looks like it could be amazing!

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 06:01:27 +0000

If/when you do this again, I’d highly recommend digiShop. It’s a paid cart ($349) with great features and support. I tested ZenCart, X-Cart, and a couple others for clients and we wound up with digiShop because of its excellent support, features, ease of use. If people have money to pay, it’s well worth a look.

BTW, I’m not a reseller or paid by digiShop in any way. I’m a web monkey trying to find tools for clients, in this case, carts.