Shopping Cart Apps
I've never used a shopping cart program and a client of mine wants to add one to their website. Can anybody give me some insight or advice about any of the following three shopping cart apps, which I can auto-install as part of cpanel.
http://www.cubecart.com/
http://www.oscommerce.com/
http://www.zen-cart.com/
With no experience with any of them, I'm already leaning towards one of the first two simply because they had demos for me on their websites. In any case, I just want simple and easy. I figure setup will be easy on any of them but what about setting up accounts so my client can accept online payments? And simplicity of management. I'd also be interested in how easy it is to integrate into an existing site template but it's not the end of the world if none of them integrate seemlessly. So any thoughts on any of these apps, or on setting up an online shop in general? Thanks.
02bunced posted this at 07:21 — 19th January 2006.
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OSCommerce is the one I have used before. It has a nice admin panel, is free (!) and quite heavy duty. Having said that, it can be very hard to customise OSCommerce effectivly owing to it's table based design spread over hundreds of files. It can be done though http://www.bydon.org/shop
CyberSpaceCadet posted this at 12:28 — 19th January 2006.
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I would also like someone to give me a pointer re: shopping cart! I am using NOP Shopping cart, which uses a javascript file and is nice and speedy at user side. Each page with products on it, and then each product has a planted section of script, thus:
Quantity:
Now - this works really well, BUT, with over 2-3,000 items each with ID, name, price, plus also a description to add, and I have them all in an excel document from the client - is there ANY way I can export the excel file into an html doc without having to re-type or copy/paste the whole lot one at a time? Bear in mind that I have no idea about mysql / online db's!
Many thanks, anyone who can enlighten me!
timjpriebe posted this at 14:33 — 19th January 2006.
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Though I've not used it before, I'm working with OSCommerce with three different clients right now. So far, it seems pretty good, though I'm having to do extensive customization.
Tim
http://www.tandswebdesign.com
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