what the best shopping chart out there available and best for business?

You can use OS commerce shopping cart for your website. It is free and one of the best shopping cart in the business.

what the best shopping chart out there available and best for business?

BTW, what kind of business you plan to start?

oscommerce, Zen, 3D, just to name a few

presta free and nice and up to date

Other than what has already been said, we also like to recommend Magento Cart to our clients. If you are using Joomla for your CMS, VirtueMart is fantastic.

I would also recomend Magento. It is the one that is leading the market right now and you will give you many options to have a professional store and adapt it to the needs of a growing business.

I've become completely disillusioned with Magento recently. Instead I've started writing my own ecommerce solution, I'm sure it can't be any slower than Magento.

Frankly most of the features are useless for the majority of ecommerce stores.

Personally, I would like to recommend zen-cart for building EC sites since it is more security, flexible and powerful.

Have a nice day,

I want to learn about shopping chart, and offer shopping chart installation to clients.
BTW, what kind of business you plan to start?

Do you know example of website that is zen-cart or oscommerce developed?



Personally, I would like to recommend zen-cart for building EC sites since it is more security, flexible and powerful.

Have a nice day,

I'd recooment OpenCart

Looks nice and has loads of good features

Oscommerce is open source and most popular shopping cart.

Hi Mate,

I suggest you to go with open-cart.

Thanking you,
David.

Thank You guys, for suggestion.

My question is , do you know the website that is really developed by those shopping chart that you recommend?

static cart/static store - cheap, extremely supported and awesome solution. If you want a full fledged cart, it can handle it - if you want to integrate into an existing static site, it can handle it. Any customizations, etc - Carl and team are happy to oblige. We have very small and very massive customers using this solution. Cannot say enough good things about it...

Zen Cart:

http://www.gsxrfairings.com

Remember to choose a cart that is PA-DSS certified as it is after the July 1st due date! Miva Merchant is one of the 40 or so DSS certified carts on the market and has a full suite of features and modules available to perform any task ... many open source carts simply do not have the funds to complete the PA-DSS certification process so don't jeopardize your site and livelihood simply because your cart is not PCI Compliant!

I can recommend this feature list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_shopping_cart_software

It is comparison of 45 different shopping cart solutions.

check out compnetusa.com they use it but you can take it to a different level

i would say magento which is extremly good for search engines but resource hungry, we always install magento on our special magento hosting servers runs much much faster than on a normal server.

Learn Magento, it's the best solution

Question to consider: Are you more interested in investing your time making your online business successful, or worring about installing and managing a shopping cart?

Are you a techie geek, or just a business man that wants to mange your online business and make money.

If you are the second, then find a hosted shopping cart software that you understand and can manage very simply and run with that program. No need to be concerend with type of servers, back up, server crashes , etc.

Pay a yearly or monthly fee and run your business.

Remember to choose a cart that is PA-DSS certified as it is after the July 1st due date! Miva Merchant is one of the 40 or so DSS certified carts on the market and has a full suite of features and modules available to perform any task ... many open source carts simply do not have the funds to complete the PA-DSS certification process so don't jeopardize your site and livelihood simply because your cart is not PCI Compliant!


PA-DSS certified component is required when you need your customers to enter credit card details on your site. If you outsource this to a payment gateway like WorldPay, 2Checkout.com or Google Checkout you do not need to have a PA-DSS component as your site doesn't touch credit cards at all.

However, if you do need your customers to enter credit cards right on your web-site - PA-DSS is a must since July the 1st 2010 for USA and Canada (other countries deadline is July the 1st 2012). Magento offers their Secure Payment Bridge for Professional ($3K a year) and Enterprise Editions ($12K a year), Community editions users are to migrate to some "web-based" payment gateway like I said above or do not process credit cards at all.

We released X-Payments solution, it is PA-DSS certified and allows X-Cart powered merchants to process credit cards "onsite". Also, it integrates with Magento ;) and can be integrated with other shopping carts like ZenCart, OsCommerce, etc with help of API.

I think Magento is the best shopping cart because that shopping cart software could actually boost of its programming structure and they project code upgrading in constantly and its user friendly.

- Magento
- Xcart
- Zen-Cart

worth considering

Opencart (http://www.bitlinetemplates.com) is the best quick option to start. Clean, easy and fast. great designs at opencartdesign.net

I totally recommend opencart (http://opencartdesign.net) with opencartdesign.net themes...

prestashop for sure =)

I would recommend X-Cart. It is really easy to work with and modify. But I would also suggest to buy a good X-Cart software, such as Store Manager for X-Cart. It makes it significantly easier to manage your X-Cart store. All the ordinary tasks like managing products, categories, orders and customers can be done much faster and more accurate with it help.

OpenCart and Prestashop have fairly large community support - which is important when dealing with open source apps. Download and test them -- only you know what works best for your business.

I would recommend X-Cart. It is really easy to work with and modify. But I would also suggest to buy a good X-Cart software, such as Store Manager for X-Cart. It makes it significantly easier to manage your X-Cart store. All the ordinary tasks like managing products, categories, orders and customers can be done much faster and more accurate with it help.

X-cart was the worst ecommerce platform I've ever had to modify. Zen is ten times better and I don't like that one either.

My recommendation is Opencart. It is relatively young, but being young in the ecommerce script world is a good thing. Why? It follows updated programming styles and also doesn't carry 5+ years of code bloat.

Sorry Xcart, your product does work but its sooooo slow and overly complex to administer. Not to mention it uses the Smarty template system.

I think you can refer to the 2010 Open Source Awards help by PACKT publishing and Top Five Open Source Ecommerce Applications (https://www.packtpub.com/open-source-awards-home/vote-open-source-e-commerce-application) are selected in the race. It is determined by shopping cart clients, very objective result.

oscommerce is the best open source shopping cart script. Try it ones, you will start using it for years

Definitely PrestaShop or Open Cart

It really depends on your needs.

For something basic and easy to use I really like ZenCart. It's a bit dated but works.

If you need something powerful with tons of advanced functionality then Magento is the cart of choice.

If you want it to look pretty and are trying to intigigrate the cart into an existing site/template then Avactis is the way to go.

Hi,
I suggest Magento a top booming E-commerce platform where optimizing,SEO friendly where We can add key words for each and every product and category,flexible designing Multisite support(Support more than 250 sites to be handled on single admin panel) if u want to know more since I am magento Developer i suggest magento for ur site

visit

http://www.magentoecommerce.com
if it is useful let me know

I would suggest you for Magento e Commerce due to its vast set of functionality. I am sharing a project link that we have developed for one of our client. The site is build in Magento.

www (dot) beautynow (dot) co (dot) uk

I hope it helps you to choose shopping cart for your business.

We used to use Joomla 1.0, then moved to 1.5, then we went over to Prestashop and we are now using interspire shopping cart, never got the hang of prestashop but find interspire is so easy to use for both us and our clients.

IMO go with osCommerce if your store is small to mid size. If your store size is enterprise level then go with Magento or any other commercial product.

I suppose opensource project are more affordbale than proprtary solutions
You can get your e-commerce solution for free and adapt it for your need and business :
Below a list with some opensource projects :
- oscommerce
- prestashop
- magento
- zen cart
- osCMax
- Satchmo
- Ubercart
- VirtueMart for Joomla

Good luck

hi,
i think these carts must be evaluated.

cs-cart
summercart
vp-asp
vevocart

all of them are mid-budget and good qıuality solutions.

Prestashop has a slick front-end but if you are in the US you may run into problems. UPS and FedEx are third party paid add-ons. Upgrading to the latest version can be a nightmare if you have made modifications. Not all payment gateways are currently available.

ZenCart has its limitations as well, but it seems to be a more reliable choice, especially if you intend to customize it to work the way you need.

interspire is easy to use cart.

if you are looking to setup your online store quickly, it is going to be the quickest solution, as the default designs are fair enough.

I'd vote for Miva Merchant as a secure app worth looking at.

Don't understand the recommendations for Magento - that thing is the most expensive cart out there! The 'Community' version is clearly billed as "non-mission critical" use and is NOT PCI compliant, which makes their Magento Professional at $3000 yearly the entry level point for a secure cart. I don't know about you but I ain't suggesting a $250 a month (with ZERO revenue for the host) license overhead to a cart client! Much less their $1100 a month Enterprise package. I mean really - are they kidding?!?!

OS commerce, zen are good just make sure that anyone you chose will not need extra modules for your merchant account

Alliedcardprocessing,

I'm not sure what you mean by not "needing extra modules for your merchant account." A merchant account does not have modules - shopping cart systems often do but they are for payment gateways.

Almost any shopping cart system out there now has payment modules to support a variety of different payment gateways and payment systems. Payment modules are usually quite easy to install as are the third party shipping calculation modules and other value-added tools that are available out there. Thus, the compatibility question isn't one of merchant account & shopping cart - it is one of shopping cart and payment gateways.

I would also second JohnStern's comments about looking at whether or not the shopping cart you select has been PA-DSS certified yet or what their plans are to achieve this.

If they are, you're heading in a good direction. If not, you'll want to assess if there is a way that you want to use a different solution OR whether you can configure it so that it does not touch any of the cardholder data by utilizing an inline frame system offered by a PCI certified payment gateway or payment system whereby you can alleviate this concern entirely.

Im sorry I meant shopping cart but thanks for pointing that out :)

I am surprised no one has suggest TomatoCart yet. I have installed all of the top 5 winners in the Packt Publishing Open Source competition and it was by far the easiest to setup and configure. The back end is like a windows desktop. Very easy to navigate and use.

I would stay away from osCommerce at all costs. It is extremely insecure and has many security vulnerabilities and is very infrequently updated.

Haven't ran into anyone that uses it yet, but thanks for the info:D

I absolutely do not recommend osCommerce in default mode. Get a fork of it like oscmax of zen cart. Those are still free but come with a lot more useful modules preinstalled.

What most people dont realise about osCommerce is when you want to install a new feature, its "open File X.php, edit line 430", repeat 20 times on other files. If that's what you want to do. Fair enough, otherwise get a fork of osCommerce.

open cart is good

shopping cart list:
oscommerce
magento
prestashop
zencart
tomatocart
opencart
virtue mart
nopCommerce
xcart