Hi,

I am in the process of developing an e-commerce site. The products have been selected, the distributors are onboard....and I am at a point I need to choose a shopping cart.

I am terrible at design so will want a cart that template based and probably PHP coded. I have looked at x-cart, sunspot, eCommerce, Zen-Cart, osCommerce (and modded variations). I just don't want to spend the time having to modify the coded with needed modules so would like to find a solution that is mature and has lots of user support.

I am leaning towards x-cart but have not made a final decision. I will want an affiliate program, ability to handle returns, easily modified...through CSS, integrate into Quickbooks and be search engine friendly.

I have a budget of up to $200 and then customization on top of that....

Anyone have suggestions? I've gone through all the scripts at HotScripts.com and the more I look the more overwhelmed I become.

Any help and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Dalmuti

i run an e-commerce store based on OSCommerce
i did the mods(4-5) and paid $200 someone to design them
they redesigned and uploaded everything, took them about 2 weeks for everything

for merchant service i use CDGCommerce;)

Are you wanting to stay with PHP as the language? The company that I went thru uses ASP & they practically gave me a shopping cart. It has been a blessing.

http://www.merchantaccounts4less.com provided me with a merchant account and a shopping cart. They even waived the set-up charges for the hosting since I was getting an e-commerce package

Thanks Topguy, but all my hosting is UNIX so I would prefer to stay with PHP.

I've looked at their site and plan to sign up with a merchant account from them.

Dalmuti