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Farrukh 10-17-2007, 12:22 PM | Hello
I am looking for a powerful php based shopping cart.
** Please, dont refer Open Source Softwares such as Oscommerce/Zencart and their forks. etc. ***
I am presently using OScommerce and I am sick of it and i want to move to a paid solution.
My budget is $500.
I need reviews from those who have used the carts themselves.
Here is the list of carts, i find powerful.
1). ViArt
2). JShop
3). CS-Cart
4). PinnacleCart
5). SunShop
6). Shop-Script
I also need fast support.
Extremely important, the speed of the cart should be good, it should not be a resource hog. |
I Would still recommend OsCommerce. Spend those $500 in modifying the script as u need. It still the No: 1.
If you say Commercial ones , i would go for SunShop. |
Farrukh 10-17-2007, 04:00 PM | I would disagree.
My present oscommerce is custom made but the original code is filled with bugs and is very unsecure.
I just cant think why people still love oscommerce, where the whole world has moved, even the php has moved to 5.
Just the other day,an error just crept up on the main page and I had not made any changes to it. Oscommerce is a really buggy software.
So please, dont recommend oscommerce and it forks. I am looking for a serious ecommerce solution, not a free one. |
bluedreamer 10-18-2007, 12:48 AM I've only used Jshop out of your list so can can't comment on the others. I've found Jshop to be very flexible and for me it scores in 2 areas...
1. Cart elements can be integrated into any sort of design, and templates are pure html/css with special tags/attributes for where the output goes (you can also tweak these tags to make it work the way you want). Total freedom and dead easy if you can code - unlike certain other carts!
2. Out of the box all the common cart functions are there, but if you want to get under the hood all the php scripts are open so you can add your own custom routines/functions etc - not necessary but occasionally when you need to do something unusual it's all possible. The customer forums have plenty of examples.
Support wise I've only really needed them twice in many years and the respose was timely. There are various support levels as well so you can choose the one that suits you. The forums are a great source for answering all the regular questions as well and they contain loads of tips, tricks and hacks and you would expect.
It also looks like future development will be based on customer requests, apparently they are going to introduce a type of voting system to see which improvements come first. |
jobinma 10-18-2007, 01:07 PM I use JShop and just can't complain about it.
The software is good, comes with the source and the community can help in a lot of manners.
I know what you mean when talking about OsCommerce. The code is messy. In JShop, the only things you need to change are the templates. But if you need something new, you can also do it.
(Last time I checked OsCommerce was 2 years ago and the code was not separated from the html).
Hope it helped!
Good luck |
NEXCS-Greg 10-18-2007, 02:51 PM I understand it's still in beta but I've been hearing great things about Magento Commerce. |
jobinma 10-18-2007, 06:17 PM Forgot to mention that I tried Shop-Script which did not fit my needs as it wasn't supporting multi-language at the same time. |
unity100 10-18-2007, 07:50 PM I would disagree.
My present oscommerce is custom made but the original code is filled with bugs and is very unsecure.
original code is not filled with bugs, per se. its possible that your customizations are conflicting with the code or buggy.
I just cant think why people still love oscommerce, where the whole world has moved, even the php has moved to 5.
yes, the whole world has moved, but apparently you havent. you'd be surprised at the number of estores and amount of transactions they do on oscommerce, and how many quote requests for osc sites we receive each day.
Just the other day,an error just crept up on the main page and I had not made any changes to it. Oscommerce is a really buggy software.
errors do not creep up without anything happening by itself. either your hosting provider changed some settings in their mysql or php ini, or provider of service for one of the modules you are using in oscommerce (any shipping module, payment modules, mvses) has changed some api commands and modules are outdated
So please, dont recommend oscommerce and it forks. I am looking for a serious ecommerce solution, not a free one.
truth is there are NO estore/shopping cart solutions either paid or unpaid that can compete with the backing oscommerce is enjoying. not only that , but almost all major and minor payment providers, cargo and shipping providers, 3rd party service providers know and support oscommerce.
you wont have this with any other cart. |
Farrukh 10-20-2007, 07:45 PM I've only used Jshop out of your list so can can't comment on the others. I've found Jshop to be very flexible and for me it scores in 2 areas...
1. Cart elements can be integrated into any sort of design, and templates are pure html/css with special tags/attributes for where the output goes (you can also tweak these tags to make it work the way you want). Total freedom and dead easy if you can code - unlike certain other carts!
2. Out of the box all the common cart functions are there, but if you want to get under the hood all the php scripts are open so you can add your own custom routines/functions etc - not necessary but occasionally when you need to do something unusual it's all possible. The customer forums have plenty of examples.
Support wise I've only really needed them twice in many years and the respose was timely. There are various support levels as well so you can choose the one that suits you. The forums are a great source for answering all the regular questions as well and they contain loads of tips, tricks and hacks and you would expect.
It also looks like future development will be based on customer requests, apparently they are going to introduce a type of voting system to see which improvements come first.
hello
Thanks bluedreamer.
I did ask Jshop about the templating system, they said that it an in-house system which they call "tsys"
Anyway, i asked them that if its another template engine working upon php then wouldnt the parsing make the site slow. They replied by saying that they pre-compile the files.Anyhow, i would like to know if it has any effect on the speed of the site. |
Farrukh 10-20-2007, 07:50 PM yes, the whole world has moved, but apparently you havent.
If you want to act smart, please dont reply to my threads.
First of all, the Title of the thread clearly states [Commercial] PHP Shopping carts
Secondly, I mentioned very clearly, in my first post, that Please do not post replies recommending oscommerce or its forks.
Why cant you read my post and the title.
oscommerce is poorly designed. If you want to make complete overhaul of the template, you have to know php and mysql.
Even though oscommerce supports many 3rd party apps etc, i really do not care since I only use 2Checkout.
**Lastly, please do not post any replies recommending oscommmerce or its forks.**
I am asking for commercial php shopping carts not free/open source.
P.S. Please, do not start a fight over this. if you like oscommerce stick to it. |
jobinma 10-20-2007, 11:21 PM Farrukh
For your information, tsys is really simple. The syntax looks like this :
<#if:product.name:eq:Boots#>You choose boots<#/if#>
... which looks like smarty or any templating language. When you put this kinda line in your template, it's replaced by php in the file that is called. It's only the first time the page is loaded that it needs a conversion.
I don't know how much traffic you'll have but for less than 2k visitors per day : don't worry at all! |
Farrukh 10-21-2007, 09:47 AM Hello
Thanks jobinha for a sample of how it works.
Now, i am mostly convinced that I would go with Jshop.
Is there a way to transfer all my customer details from oscommerce to Jshop (especially the passwords). or is there a workaround |
jobinma 10-21-2007, 10:17 AM Good question...
I would ask JShop directly if I were you but I don't think that they have that kinda script. Maybe you could generate your own SQL query for that migration. |
unity100 10-21-2007, 02:36 PM If you want to act smart, please dont reply to my threads.
First of all, the Title of the thread clearly states [Commercial] PHP Shopping carts
Secondly, I mentioned very clearly, in my first post, that Please do not post replies recommending oscommerce or its forks.
Why cant you read my post and the title.
oscommerce is poorly designed. If you want to make complete overhaul of the template, you have to know php and mysql.
Even though oscommerce supports many 3rd party apps etc, i really do not care since I only use 2Checkout.
**Lastly, please do not post any replies recommending oscommmerce or its forks.**
I am asking for commercial php shopping carts not free/open source.
P.S. Please, do not start a fight over this. if you like oscommerce stick to it.
you dont know anything on what you are talking about. |
bluedreamer 10-21-2007, 02:56 PM Now, i am mostly convinced that I would go with Jshop.
Is there a way to transfer all my customer details from oscommerce to Jshop (especially the passwords). or is there a workaround
If you can export your database tables to a csv they can be imported into Jshop using it's inbuilt import/export functions. I've migrated OSC products data into Jshop before but not customer passwords - there a quite a few threads on the Jshop forums and there is an issue with the way OSC handles password encryption which makes them tricky to convert over - Jshop support will be able to advise better than me! |
vinsar 10-21-2007, 03:50 PM Farrukh you can also have a look at CubeCart (http://www.cubecart.com) |
vtwservers 10-21-2007, 09:10 PM Cubecart V3 is good and free. I've used it and it worked great for me. |
uberhostNET 10-21-2007, 09:17 PM The OP has already stated he's looking for a commercial solution. |
vtwservers 10-21-2007, 09:37 PM Cubecart V4 is a paid commercial version. OP can try the V3 first and it's free. |
vinsar 10-22-2007, 02:07 AM CubeCart had been both free and paid from the very beginning since it's inception when it was called eStore. Its a commercial solution. |
Farrukh 10-23-2007, 09:34 AM Hello
I have tried Cubecart 3 but It did not had the features i was searching for.
I havent tried out version 4 yet.
How about cs-cart ? |
atechstl 10-23-2007, 10:21 AM I do not like the checkout process on cubecart 3. Version 4 has fixed that. |
bluedreamer 10-23-2007, 11:10 AM Hello
I have tried Cubecart 3 but It did not had the features i was searching for.
I havent tried out version 4 yet.
How about cs-cart ?
Farrukh what features are you specifically looking for? |
DaveNET 10-25-2007, 02:05 AM Farrukh,
Another one you might want to check is www.avactis.com. It should be well within your budget and I have heard good things about it. I have a reseller copy but didn't have a chance yet to do much with it. |
uberhostNET 10-25-2007, 04:04 AM Farrukh,
Another one you might want to check is www.avactis.com. It should be well within your budget and I have heard good things about it. I have a reseller copy but didn't have a chance yet to do much with it.
That looks like a good find, David. We've set up a lot of carts, but that's a new one to me. Browsing their live stores I see a lot of variation in design, which suggests a flexible system. :agree: |
JeffS26 10-27-2007, 02:25 AM I would definitely check out SunShop and CS-Cart. Both of these carts have tons of features built-in. SunShop is easy to customize and also has a very user-friendly interface. CS-Cart has so many features, you'll be overwhelmed.
Check em out
http://www.turnkeywebtools.com
http://www.cs-cart.com |
Farrukh 10-27-2007, 05:04 AM I have checked avactis and they do not have the features im looking for.
I have checked SunShop and Cs-Cart as well. |
vinsar 10-27-2007, 07:04 AM It will be easier for people here to help. If you tell us what features you are looking for. |
uberhostNET 10-27-2007, 07:09 AM I have checked avactis and they do not have the features im looking for.
I have checked SunShop and Cs-Cart as well.
Hi Farrukh,
Which cart is the top-runner in your search thus far?
Best,
Rick |
JeffS26 10-27-2007, 11:29 AM Farrukh,
You have probably looked at the best shopping carts that fit in your budget, what features do you exactly need?
If you can't find a shopping cart you like, you might want to consider a custom made one, but it will be much more expensive. |
Farrukh 10-28-2007, 06:55 AM 1). Wishlist
2). Recover Shopping Cart Orders
Customers sometimes leave products in their shoppingcarts, we email them after a few days or weeks and inform them that they did not place an order, any problems faced etc.
3). Shipping Zones Worldwide
I use DHL as a courier and they charge by Weight / Volumentric(Dimentions of the product) Weight) and they have different costs for different countries and DHL's costs decrease with increase in Weight.
4). Quantity based discounts
Price tiers for any product variation.
A price tier can be either a dollar amount or a percentage discount. For example, a product variation might look like this:
Qty up to 4: regular price
Qty 5 – 8: 10% off
Qty 9 +: 20% off
5). Discounts be applied to an order based on any combination of the following conditions:
- Coupon Code
- Date
- Number of products in order
- Ship to country or state/province
- Order product total
- Order weight total
- Number of a specific product in cart
- Number of products from a specific category
6). Combine the conditions above into complex formulas to fine tune discounts.
For example: offer discount when (Date is between 10/15/2006 - 11/15/2006 AND Product total is more than $50.00) OR Coupon Code is "ABGT5S29"
7). Advertise your discounts on a product page
10). Display discounts that customer is receiving below checkout form OR as a popup page.
8). Discount Coupon Manager
Each coupon should be custom configured to apply discount by dollar amount or percent off, i.e. $5 or 10% off the price of an item or the entire order.
It should also restrict coupons to be applied only to a specific item or to the entire order. Additional use restrictions should include number of times a coupon can be used and coupon expiration dates.
9). Global Price Manager
should be able create different pricing schemes for the store and change regular and sale prices at any time. For example, you can raise all regular prices by 10% for the weekend and quickly restore them back on Monday.
It should also create Christmas Prices Scheme and save the Regular and Sale prices for before and after the holiday. It should allow to set new Regular and new Sale prices based on filter criteria you choose.
10). Related products
allow to show related products when checking a product. It should be auto and manual
11). I run shareasale affiliate program. Is it possible to track the affiliate sales. Sharesale gives tracking code which should be inserted in the checkout succesful page.
12). Support for Google's Web Optimizer (Not that important but a plus)
http://services.google.com/websiteoptimizer/
Website Optimizer, Google's free multivariate testing application, helps online marketers increase visitor conversion rates and overall visitor satisfaction by continually testing different combinations of site content (text and images).
13). Coupon/Giftcard
Giftcard codes should be redeemed by customers and applied towards any purchase in the store.
14). Shipping by Zones
It should allow to ship products based on Country Zones.Presently, I am using the zones feature in oscommerce.
Please, check its details here:
http://www.oscommerce.info/docs/engl..._shipping.html
15). A/B Split Testing
16. Fuzzy Logic Search
1). Accommodate spelling errors,
2). Alternate spellings,
3). Pluralizations etc. in search terms (or suggests likely alternatives).
Sensitivity should be adjustable.)
To eliminate the ‘no results found’ plague, similar matches should be presented to a user when available.
for e.g.
You searched for : “gol bal”
Sorry, we could not find any matches for “gol bal”. Did you mean golf ball or gold ball?
Restrictions
*Searches should be restricted to categories manually or automatically based on what category a user is currently browsing
17). Catalog Browsing
Find products faster with filtered navigation
Filtered navigation allows customers to refine results from searches and catalog browsing allowing them to quickly & precisely find exactly the product they are looking for. For example a customer looking for a digital camera may search for “digital camera”, then refine their results by clicking on the “Digital SLRs ” category, “100 to $300” price range, “Sony” brand, “CompactFlash” memory, and “6 MP & Up”, thus reducing a few hundred initial results down to only a few.
Results Sorting
Product results can be sorted by: Search Featured Products, Relevance, Price, Name and Top Sellers, allowing customers to find the most relevant results without have to scroll through 100s of results.
18). Free Shipping
*Allow free shipping if Order $ amount greater than specified value (currency specific)
*Allow free shipping if coupon code or campaign supplied
*Allow free shipping for new customers (1st Order)
19). Buy X no. of Y and get Discount:
Offer a discount (% or $-based) off a product with a minimum quantity purchase. For example buy 3 shirts and get 10% off or buy 3 shirts and get $10 off.
20). Buy X no. of Y and get 1 Free:
Offer a free gift with a minimum quantity purchase.
For example, buy two shirts and receive a free tie.
Paired Discount Type: Offer a price reduction on a product if another product(s) is(are) purchased. For example, buy a shirt and receive 10 dollars off a pair of jeans.
21). Quickbooks Integration
22). Should be easy to add Javascript code for web analytics tracking codes etc.
23). SEO Friendly
24). Easy to skin
25). 2checkout payment processing integration
26). Multi-Currency Support
27). Full backup of orders etc. through the admin section
28). Customer Reviews/Testimonial feature
Ability to accept and reject testimonials
29). Reporting system for orders, customer registration, etc.
These are some of the features I am looking for.
Its not necessary that all the features should be present.
So far, I have only found Magento to be able to do most of the stuff but its still beta.
My budget is $500 |
JeffS26 10-29-2007, 01:52 PM Magento looks like a very nice shopping cart, too bad it's in beta.
All of the carts I have listed can do everything in your list, and then some. |
Moris 11-01-2007, 03:51 AM Farrukh, what's your choice? You were investigating for some time now and I am very curious. |
Farrukh 11-01-2007, 07:10 AM Hello Moris.
I might be leaning towards Jshop.
Just searching for some more information such as Integration of Jshop with external solutions. For e.g.
http://www.atandra.com/Prod_THub.htm
http://www.datalinkuk.com
Jshop does provide quickbooks integration but its limited to order export.
I have also checking out http://www.interspire.com/storesuite/. It is a new shopping cart by Interspire, the same company which has developed SendStudio mailing solution.
Secondly, I am also searching for properly migrating from oscommerce to another cart and getting the URL's which are indexed in Google to be able to redirect them to the new URL's which will be created in the new shopping cart. |
Farrukh 11-01-2007, 07:23 AM I have just checked magento's roadmap and they have updated it.
They plan to release a production version in the first quarter of 2008.
The feature that caught my eye was "osCommerce import" |
Moris 11-01-2007, 11:05 PM I guess you are not sleeping much to find all the information. I am also looking for the e-shop solution, but I am stacked with zencart, cs-cart and x-cart. As I am totally new to this, it takes ages to investigate itst to get more confused. ;)
That is why I'm following your investigation. Thank you for the news. :)
I didn't think about checking another shop, but... I am going to have a look at jshop. |
My two bits as I have been searching for a good shopping cart myself.
J-shop was recommended to me and i find it really great. It is very exhaustive featurewise and looks very stable. The problem is the cost. The other main problem is(I feel..I may be wrong) that with j-shop customization will be difficult. If it has all the features you are looking for and you will not need some out of the box customization(and the price factor) then j-shop should be your best choice.
Oscommerce does remain a very good choice if you are good with php or have a programmer at hand. Oscommerce also can be a commercial solution if you go in for services from sites like oscommercehelper(i am not recommending this website just an example). I even remembering seeing a "true loaded" version of oscommerce offered by a oscommerce modding company. This version is supposed to be bug free and has all the most popular contributions/feature pre installed(bug free).
Why people recommend oscommerce and I am too is that tommorrow any decent php programmer can customize you cart. Not the case in "closed source" commercial shopping scripts.
Apart from Jshop my recommendation would be to choose a oscommerce from a proffessional customizing company like
oscommerceindia.com/packages.html or oscommerce4you(please note I am not recommending these websites do your research check their portfolios and choose there are many more service providers).
Technically the solutions is commercial ;-). though the shopping cart will be free and most of these developers are experts and have been working on oscommerce for years. So their solutions are 99.9% bug free. |
bithost(NET) 11-06-2007, 04:42 AM I even remembering seeing a "true loaded" version of oscommerce offered by a oscommerce modding company. This version is supposed to be bug free and has all the most popular contributions/feature pre installed(bug free).
The current version of CRELoaded (http://www.creloaded.com) is NOT bug-free. Easily 1/2 the features in CRELoaded are broken or are only partially working. The current version does not even download with a working USPS shipping module :eek: ...the one that's supplied is broken.
Also, the only CRELoaded documentation is payware and an .exe ... so not only is there no free documentation, but if you don't run Windows you are screwed. :angry:
I am sorry I ever went down the road of CRELoaded, but I'm stuck there now, so I will live with it until I have the time and energy to completely overhaul my site AGAIN.
:D Bailey |
willow1872 11-10-2007, 10:17 AM I would not recommend CS-Cart, support is terrible, template system is Smarty with so many nested tables its difficult to figure out where anything is, its exteemly slow store side with around a minute and a half download time on a 56K which i believe is down to all the tables used and the amount of external files called. It is hard to find anything else with all the features they have but its at the expensive of your customers.
CubeCart V3 is very basic but great when starting out and the template system uses X-Template which is very easy to customise.
CubeCart V4 has kept the X-Template system but as it stands is as buggy as hell (Version 4.0.3 to date)! The good thing with CubeCart though is the support and the community.
Viart (http://viart.com) looks very good as does Avactis and JShop but i dont have any experience with these.
Hope that helps :D |
Farrukh 11-10-2007, 02:10 PM im testing out ViArt thoroughly with there Free Version. So far its pretty good.
I just wanted to back off from Jshop for the time being as I did not like their support team and that they do not provide a trial version to test their system. |
willow1872 11-10-2007, 03:20 PM Ive been playing with Avactis since all the reviews posted here and im pretty impressed, particularly with the custom SEO urls without the need for mod rewrite. Their support forum is also extremely friendly with lots of developer interaction :) |
eming 11-10-2007, 05:58 PM has anyone tested tradingeye.com ? |
unity100 11-10-2007, 06:31 PM usps module is distributed separate from cre distro now, from what i remember. |
bithost(NET) 11-10-2007, 09:18 PM usps module is distributed separate from cre distro now, from what i remember.
That must be as of version 12? .......... which has not been released yet.
I am running the current version of CRE Loaded... the version that is distributed with the broken USPS module. Nowhere in the instructions or on CRE's website is there any mention of the USPS module being distributed separately.
In fact one of the CRE beta testers could not figure out why the module that was included, was included. The version included appears to be very old (before flat-rate boxes even existed) whereas the USPS module from CRE Loaded v.8 works just fine.
There is also no USPS module available for download separately, on the CRELoaded website. :confused:
I think the folks at CRE just screwed v11 up heinously. ;) And unfortunately, that's the latest & greatest version available. :(
:D Bailey |
willow1872 11-13-2007, 12:46 PM im testing out ViArt thoroughly with there Free Version. So far its pretty good.
I just wanted to back off from Jshop for the time being as I did not like their support team and that they do not provide a trial version to test their system.
How you getting on with Viart? Feature wise its hard to find anything as comprehensive but their templating system is a bit confusing :eek:
has anyone tested tradingeye.com ?
Tradingeye.com looks interesting but bloody expensive for a newcommer :eek: |
Farrukh 11-14-2007, 04:13 AM How you getting on with Viart? Feature wise its hard to find anything as comprehensive but their templating system is a bit confusing :eek:
I tested importing customers details, product lists, order details.
The import worked fine except in the case of customers details as it required login and password as well. This is the problem which is present in every shopping cart if you are switching from osCommerce.
I agree that there Manual is not that comprehensive but the software itself is quite powerful.
I found a bug and reported it, they fixed it in a day. Thats quite good and provided a fix for it on their forum as well.
THe only thing keeping me away from Jshop is that they do not provide a Trial version or a limited version of their cart to test it out on a local server. Most of the carts, I have checked, they all provide a trial version but Jshop is very reluctant of giving away one. I think this is one of the drawbacks of closed source software whereas ViArt has 95%+ open source code.
I have still not decided between ViArt and Jshop but I am thoroughly testing ViArt.
I tried their demo and I really believe that their product lacks a lot of features in comparison to their Price tag. 299 Pounds. JShop easily beats Tradingeye in terms of features and price. |
Farrukh 04-16-2008, 10:39 AM Finally, i have settled for Viart. I left jSHop as they did not provide a Trial version for testing even upon request. |
clearbluenetworks 04-18-2008, 03:21 PM I have used x-cart in the Past it worked well for me. The nice thing about it is you can pay the company to do design and integrate it into templates etc. |
CandyMan 05-06-2008, 09:33 AM I wonder why nobody remembered this nice shopping cart (http://www.avactis.com/) (Avactis) - it was featured earlier on this forum (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=650045) as a closest ViArt competitor :) |
willow1872 05-06-2008, 10:23 AM Ive just spent the last week setting up Viart Enterprise as a replacement to my CubeCart store but ran into issues with the helpdesk on day one. I opened a ticket straight away but a week later (yesterday) there was still no response from Viart support. As this thing had cost me £182 i gave up waiting for any support and requested a refund. The astonishing thing was that the refund was processed within an hour of requesting it but there was still no reply to my ticket. :eek:
There is no doubt that Viart is a very powerfull shopping cart with features most others cant get close to but when you have a very busy website and you run into problems, only to find that you are on your own then it ends up being a pile of pooh. The annoying thing is that i could see that the developers had read the ticket a few times over the week because it had been 'reassigned'. I guess their sales team isnt as 'on the ball' as their support. A great shame.
When i was testing Avactis i was put off by the lack of beta testing. On their last realease (1.8.1 Nov 07), it came out with more bugs than features, you only have to check their forums back then LOL. When i contacted support and asked why it wasn't beta tested they told me that they did the best they could but were in a hurry to release it. If they had offered public beta testing or even by application then half of the bugs would never have seen the final release.
Ive got to say that what CubeCart V3 and now V4 still lacks in features it makes up for by its support. V4 was out for public beta testing and even a couple of Release Canditates before it went final. There is still the occassional bug but support are on it within a matter of days and whenever ive needed support its always been responded to within a couple of hours. If the software could 'grow up' a little then it really would be the one to beat.
Magento still looks amazing though and im hoping they will add digital downloads soon. The only thing that puts me off is their 'offical support' packages start at $2000 per year. Im afraid im not keen on leaving the welfare of my business in the hands of a community so i personally will only ever consider a script that has a company behind it but no matter how great Magento is im not about to shell out $2000 a year for it :eek: |
mojo3120 05-20-2008, 01:01 PM **Lastly, please do not post any replies recommending oscommmerce or its forks.**
I am asking for commercial php shopping carts not free/open source.
P.S. Please, do not start a fight over this. if you like oscommerce stick to it.
I think people are suggesting osCommerce because it's all you can afford. I charge at least $500 to completely setup osCommerce along with gateways and any add-on modules.
For a truly commercial "Powerful" cart you'd probably be looking at $15,000 minimum. Maybe $5000-$10000 for a "Weak" commercial cart . At least that's what I'd quote you |
Evolver 05-20-2008, 01:36 PM I guess you are not sleeping much to find all the information. I am also looking for the e-shop solution, but I am stacked with zencart, cs-cart and x-cart. As I am totally new to this, it takes ages to investigate itst to get more confused. ;)
That is why I'm following your investigation. Thank you for the news. :)
I didn't think about checking another shop, but... I am going to have a look at jshop.
Heh I bought x cart about a year ago and it's left a sour taste in my mouth with a $100's of useless code (at least back then)
The template system was a utter POS with nested upon nested upon nested tables. I did manage to get it looking like I wanted but after having to remove half to the hmtl in the templates.
Their Canada post plugin was a joke and they actually charged people $100's to modify the CP module to work properly. (They quoted me some stupid amount to do it even though the code was already written for other customers.) Who the hell includes a partially working plugin with a commercial script and has the balls to charge customers extra to complete it.
Zencart is not bad although free so not what the op is looking It does have way too many template files (takes a lot of time changing from dir to dir when making changes) |
CandyMan 05-21-2008, 04:47 AM When i was testing Avactis i was put off by the lack of beta testing. On their last realease (1.8.1 Nov 07), it came out with more bugs than features, you only have to check their forums back then LOL. When i contacted support and asked why it wasn't beta tested they told me that they did the best they could but were in a hurry to release it. If they had offered public beta testing or even by application then half of the bugs would never have seen the final release.
Well, I guess the guys @ Pentasoft read your mind :) -- they accept beta testers now:
http://www.avactis.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3368
They say they'll even present you a license if you find some bugs :)
For a truly commercial "Powerful" cart you'd probably be looking at $15,000 minimum. Maybe $5000-$10000 for a "Weak" commercial cart . At least that's what I'd quote you
Do you mean writing it all from scratch? I can't think of any ready-made cart with such a price O_O |
3StrikesDesign 05-25-2008, 06:54 AM We have done several customizations of PDG for clients. They mostly go with it because it integrates with QuickBooks POS. |
Interspire's Shopping Cart looks pretty darn nice.
I remember it was one of the ones to watch for.
Anything in particular that turned you off about it? |
dmaui 07-08-2008, 10:32 AM For support, ease of upgrade and all around good solid cart, I'd go with jshop. For features Viart is great, but they are weak on support, documentation, and ease of customization. |
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