Comments on: 8 Best Open Source Shopping Carts

By: Oliver

Oliver — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:55:51 +0000

Most of these carts aren’t easy to customize and the fact that you only have a cart and nothing else is the big reason why i choose virtuemart. with virtuemart you get get everything else why? cause its a plugin for joomla. joomla has all the plugins you need from community builder to forums to blogging to gallery stuffs to newsletters and they are combine in to one system. not like standalone carts that you will still have to integrate your cart with your forum and your blog. now thats nasty. i see this in a perspective of a developer who has had customers tending to want stuffs that aren’t with in the bounds of the cart that they wanted.

By: dsf

dsf — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:30:49 +0000

nice product urls on the http://www.zenmagick.org cart…..NOT!

its called seo, look into it

By: DerManoMann

DerManoMann — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:30:55 +0000

For all people interested in zen-cart that are scared off by the template/code nightmare, there is an alternative storefront with a much simpler structure and and a growing number of plugins: ZenMagick! (http:/www.zenmagick.org)

I agree the admin side is not much to look at (or too much!), but it’s getting better.

ZenMagick also includes an object oriented API to access virtually all storefront data which allows integrating products, cart, etc in other applications.

Check out the demo site (http://demo.zenmagick.org) for some sample Ajax features like drag & drop (from the product list)

Best of all, no more SQL in templates!! and no manual patching required.

mano

By: Xolite

Xolite — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:57:39 +0000

OScommence is a nightmare with no portability. If you want an out of box solution and all you plan on doing is changing CSS and the logo, OSCommence is for you.

If you wish to create a complex re-design ( look of the site ) and only use it as a shopping cart engine, think again. The simplest change needed, will yield you hours of modifications to the code, for most with minor knowledge, prepare to pay for lots of hours to your favorite coder.

BLEH

Nice list, 3 i never heard of, what a great idea.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:44:43 +0000

Thank you for your article.
Wonder which one would you recommend as the best one?
After all you must have chosen one to accomplish the task.

By: Shopping Carts

Shopping Carts — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:59:05 +0000

Hello,
Thanks for the list. We pick aspdotnetstorefront.com
Cheers

By: Julien

Julien — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:55:57 +0000

Hello,

Thanks for the list. I am looking for a shopping cart to use it on my web site, and I think I will use Magento after reading all the comments.

Cheers

By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:57:06 +0000

Thanks for the list. I haven’t even heard of some of these; will have to check them out. I don’t think Zen Cart should be on here, though. It’s bloated, slow, and uses way too many sql queries.

By: haags

haags — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:31:26 +0000

see my site i want to my site well up to date can you help me please
and what is software?

By: Yo brother neilio whats the dealio!

Yo brother neilio whats the dealio! — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:34:33 +0000

Check this package out…

Includes it all to get everything working’
Joomla and Virtuemart prebundled. No seperate install required.
i.e. you know it will work once deployed on your server.
http://virtuemart.net/latest_joomlaee.php (their link doesn’t work, use this instead (without extra code trailing)).
http://dev.virtuemart.net/cb/displayDocument/Joomla_1.0.15_eCommerce_Edition_VM_1.0.15.tar.gz

VirtueMart is not a stand-alone script, but a Plug-in and requires the PHP Content Management System Joomla! (or Mambo).

The easiest way is to install the Joomla! eCommerce Edition: a ready-steady-go bundle of Joomla! & a pre-installed VirtueMart.

I’ve tried other e-commerce solutions like OSCommerce, Zen Cart and XT commerce but am less than impressed.
Customization of Virtuemart php code is straight forward. (you still need hands on knowledge of basic PHP Functions.)
It’s Flexible. It’s not a bridged component, but a native true Joomla component.

Good bloody luck out there guys!
(:

By: haags

haags — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:33:26 +0000

SEE MY SITE

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By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:12:10 +0000

Another great shopping cart is Option Cart - http://www.optioncart.com. It’s only available through authorized resellers (I’m one), but it’s a great catalog system that requires no HTML knowledge for the user and works in conjunction with Mal’s ecommerce.

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By: Web Design Spain

Web Design Spain — Tue, 13 May 2008 05:47:06 +0000

The ZenCart is a fantastic, tableless css cart script. Best of the 8 for me. Nice list.

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HostSG Web Design — Sat, 10 May 2008 20:29:52 +0000

fantastic complilation, i have to admit some of the shopping carts that i’ve tested are easy to install and customise. open source FTW.

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By: Akbar Ali

Akbar Ali — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:44:13 +0000

hi,
Curently I m useing Agora shopping cart, there is only one option for customer. but i want give spical rebate to my wholesaler resaler. mean i wnat to make 3 area 1. customers 2. resalers and 3 wholesaler so please sugest me…which shopping cart i use…

By: Web Design Colorado

Web Design Colorado — Sat, 03 May 2008 16:38:47 +0000

While we’ve always used an inhouse solution, Magento is the future of e-commerce (if it were only a little faster and smaller ! )