What CMS do you use for ECOMMERCE Sites?

imho Magento is really overrated, totally. The code is bulky, for the smallest things you have to write custom code, hell, try to show random products on the homepage or featured products, it's annoying and complicated. WP on the other hand is light-weight compared to magento, and way easier to customize, I would even go as far as saying you could run a really huge corporate ecommerce site on wp (with custom plugin)

Most people don't want to spend thousands on development, invest tons of time and just get a small ecommerce site up & running asap. And for those cases I really think Wordpress is absolutely perfect since there are so many ecommerce plugins available already.
 
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i have used virtuemart many of time for both me and my clients. Everyone seems to like it, fits in with the joomla platform and always can be edited with some coding. It does have its limitations but if you do know some code you can make it do whatever you like...
 
vote for opencart, noob friendly, wp is insufficient for building ecommerce site
 
IMO.. Zencart would be fine as its gives you more specific ways to handle you store easily.
 
I'm surprised nobody talked about Prestashop. Prestashop is really powerful !
 
I am using wp-ecommerce and opencart, if you know a bit html and css you can easy edit any of this product for your test
 
it will have too many. initially 200+ then after about 2 months it will have 500+
 
Hey guys. Thanks for all your recommendations and input. I was a little overwhelmed with the number of choices since I didn't know there were so many. I did check all of them yesterday.

For the site I'm working on, I'm more concerned with the aesthetics and how easy it is to manage and customize. As of now, I'm looking into OpenCart, WP, and Shopify. Shopify being the top choice, but I still need to figure out the pricing.

Any input on the pricing/fees for those three?
 
All I can say is I built an extremely customized site on wp, with w3 total cache & amazon cdn, it was a movie site with 5 million+ posts and loading time was worldwide from under 1 second - 2 seconds. Even the custom taxonomy pages that loaded movies by actor/series character etc were loading extremely fast.

The shops I built were always way smaller than that, but yeah, since the movie site had 5 million actual posts spread over 5 or 6 custom post types, I know what wp is capable of if you write clean & efficient code :)

My #1 choice for something that should be online fast and easily customizable would always be wp. And many plugins are free or if premium very cheap, plus you have a horde of good wp developers so you can easily find qualified help, let alone the wp forums...

So all I want to say is basically, don't worry that your shop will be slow or looks like a blog or so, if you have the right developer your site will looknothing like a blog and run extremely fast even under heavy load with thousands of products and customers.
 
Custom sites are the best for small sites. Opencart & Prestashop are also good. Both have pitfalls. Magento is good for large stores, but it is f#$*ing slow, you need to mod it heavily to perform well.

Wordpress has more stuff you do not need for an ecommerce shop and also more vulnerabilities.
 
In interspire you can not edit the templates so i don't like because of this. Joomla, Magento and opencart are some good CMS. but i like Magento. it have very strong features.
 
Who said you can't edit? You can edit anything in interspire unless you know how to do. Check out more templates at interspiremods(.)net.

getseoonline said:
In interspire you can not edit the templates so i don't like because of this. Joomla, Magento and opencart are some good CMS. but i like Magento. it have very strong features.
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open cart and magento are good and modern i.e. they work great out of the box without modifications.

Just to note, I use Zen-cart, which is very fast on most servers. With magento you will need a vps to get fast >1s page loads. With zen-cart any good host will make the pages load very quick. You can get shared with magento but it load slowly, about 3 or more seconds depended if on your host is optimized for magento or not.

However the problem with zen-cart is that its honestly very incomplete and ugly out of the box. You will have to read a ton of tutorials on how to get rid of some useless stuff and then read some more on installing essential mods (mods so basic they come wiht it in magneto and opencart). It is also very ugly. you will defintley need a good theme. Even some the best free themes are ugly. Just not modern. Now if you saw my site, you will be impressed and this only b/c I put a ton of work into it. You might be better off getting preloaded and finished zen, rather then the one straight from the source and modifying the shit out of it.

All that being said, i would go with opencart if you want to start quick without the time for reading a ton of tutorials and money on quality hosting.
 
I like Shopify! Works great and the Google Shopping integration is great :D
 
ZenCart obviously. I think thats the best one. Actually I haven't used the others :P
 
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