Recommend a shopping cart

Delboy2424

Delboy2424

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My mates mum wants to have a little site supporting her ebay stuff (she sells personalised cards) Anyone recommend a decent shopping cart such as Zen, Oscommerce etc, it will need to be easy to manage, secure (as it can be!!) and adaptable without the need for massive amounts of programming knowledge as my mate can help her with the basics.

Payment gateway intergration needs to be a must for something like paypal.

Havent a clue what is working these days as its been many a year since I last used anything like this (oscommerce) so though I would ask you guys whats the market leaders these days.

Cheers
 
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I've always personally used Volusion, Big Commerce, or custom carts.

Depends on your mom's needs.
 
If for starters then,Wordpress will also work fine
there are special eCommerce themes/plugins for WP

but , Magneto is the best of all.
 
Nordajgt said:
I've always personally used Volusion, Big Commerce, or custom carts.

Depends on your mom's needs.
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hi
Nordajgt, i already check for the Volusion script...how you manage for the seo for this script...im now using shoperpress for my ecommerce...

very interested for this platform... :)
 
I have recently been working with OpenCart and it seems to be a nice commerce solution. There are some great themes about and it seems very quick. The admin interface seems very user friendly and wouldn't take long to pick up.

Magento would definitely be my first choice though!
 
Magento seems good but has a steeper learning curve, it is also more resource hungry so needs better hosting. How about looking at Joomla with Virtuemart plugin?
 
seems a lot of you mention magento, is there a free version on their site, seem to charge or have I missed the version I will need?

What about add-ons, themes etc...readily available?
 
Delboy2424 said:
seems a lot of you mention magento, is there a free version on their site, seem to charge or have I missed the version I will need?
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Magento is definately a good ecommerce system, but for some people can it be difficult to find their way around. Specially if you want to modify the template yourself.

It's a free CMS system and most web hosting companies have it as a 1-click install.

The newest version is v. 1.5.0.1 or something like that.

What about add-ons, themes etc...readily available?[/QUOTE]

There are heaps of add ons and themes on their official homepage. Just search for magento.
 
magneto is overkill for simple eCommerce website

use wordpress + eCommerce/ewcid/shopperpress plugin
or opencart
 
I've found most of the developers have made me a site end up using Magento in the end.

If you are completely new to eCommerce, shopify is pretty good for newbies. It isn't free, but its pretty quick to set up but it limits you.
 
Cactushop is good, very easy to set up, unlimited products and options and good price too.

I have used it about 6 times and never had an issue.
 
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