best shopping cart

unwashed potato! · 9 Jan 2010 at 00:31

i'm trying out some shopping carts but not having much luck with the 2 i have tried so far so thought i'd look see what peoples opinions are on what's the best.

i tried opencart first, nice and quick and simple, but it seems to be lacking a lot of features like plugins, as well as reading online it appears to be hard to customise.

i am trying magento but having many difficulties installing it on xampp. i'm not giving up on it but if enough people convince me to i will try something else.

i have heard of zen cart but heard production on this is stopping, is this true?
also seen cubecart. any others people recommend? i like it to be fairly customisable as it needs to go on a current site and i like things to match perfeclty

ringo747 · 9 Jan 2010 at 00:43

Check out the interspire cart. Never used it but it reviews well. Not cheap though.

http://www.interspire.com/shoppingcart/

suarve · 9 Jan 2010 at 11:02

Would personally stay clear on zen cart - over the last couple of months have had a fair few clients coming for bespoke solutions as updates to their zen cart buggered up the entire site.

Pho · 9 Jan 2010 at 17:08

I hear opencart is very easy to customise as it's written well using MVC (model-view-controller) patterns, unlike the mess which is osCommerce (zen-cart).

unwashed potato! · 10 Jan 2010 at 15:59

Pho said:
I hear opencart is very easy to customise as it's written well using MVC (model-view-controller) patterns, unlike the mess which is osCommerce (zen-cart).

i've stuck with opencart and it actually appears to be very good. i'm finding it very easy to understand once i got past the initial small learning curve. a few issues here and there but so far so good.

biggest concern now is how secure it really is

Izi · 10 Jan 2010 at 16:15

i use http://www.nopcommerce.com/

Pho · 10 Jan 2010 at 18:56

Mammalian said:
i've stuck with opencart and it actually appears to be very good. i'm finding it very easy to understand once i got past the initial small learning curve. a few issues here and there but so far so good.

biggest concern now is how secure it really is

It seems very secure, I didn't mention it in my other post but I've been playing around with it for a site I'm setting up for someone; all the queries I've seen have been properly escaped and secured and the way it's designed should in theory make holes easier to spot.

v1.3.5 is meant to be out tonight with a new admin interface

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I used to do a lot of work with osCommerce a couple of years ago, but this is much nicer.

sandhuharv · 10 Jan 2010 at 19:22

I've used osCommerce in the past but it is not very nice to work with!

Just checked out Opencart and the demo site looks really nice, very web 2.0 in a way. Is it easy to use and change? Also is there a good support forum for it?

unwashed potato! · 10 Jan 2010 at 19:58

sandhuharv said:
I've used osCommerce in the past but it is not very nice to work with!

Just checked out Opencart and the demo site looks really nice, very web 2.0 in a way. Is it easy to use and change? Also is there a good support forum for it?

seems to be good support, i posted questoin on their forum and same day reply had about 4/5 replies fairly useful. also unlike magento they seem to be focused on providing a great os piece of software that peopel can use easily, magento is designed as hard to learn, and they charge a lot to customise it.

i've never used a cart before and have been put off becuae i'd thought there'd be a lot to learn, i have customised opencart a fair amount and understand how it works within 2 days. i'd say it's almost as easy as wordpress to use, the only downside so far being that adding a plugin seems to take more work, i'd prefer if a plugin has one main folder, where as this has one folder here for styling, one folder there for layout, another over there for language etc.

unwashed potato! · 10 Jan 2010 at 20:04

Pho said:
It seems very secure, I didn't mention it in my other post but I've been playing around with it for a site I'm setting up for someone; all the queries I've seen have been properly escaped and secured and the way it's designed should in theory make holes easier to spot.

v1.3.5 is meant to be out tonight with a new admin interface .

I used to do a lot of work with osCommerce a couple of years ago, but this is much nicer.

yeah i tried oscommerce, took ages to install, to find it used tables! yuck!

i heard of issues such as if a user choses to pay with paypal, then before they click the final submit, they just type in the success page address, the order is finalised without payment. of course payment should be checked before sending but an issue non the less, which i'd expect to see more of given how new it is. as you mention though the design is simple enough that finding problems isn't too hard.

gord · 11 Jan 2010 at 11:52

ringo747 said:
Check out the interspire cart. Never used it but it reviews well. Not cheap though.

http://www.interspire.com/shoppingcart/

I've just built our companies first ecommerce venture using this. Excellent product IMO, well built, and although lacking some features their new support contracts are good.

Very easy to understand and customise.

Hencore · 11 Jan 2010 at 12:34

I've set up two Zencart systems and never again!

Teq · 11 Jan 2010 at 13:18

sandhuharv said:
I've used osCommerce in the past but it is not very nice to work with!

Just checked out Opencart and the demo site looks really nice, very web 2.0 in a way. Is it easy to use and change? Also is there a good support forum for it?

Keep away from osCommerce if you can, as Sandhu says it is terrible to work with, you end up hacking so much to get anything working that you might as well have rolled your own (in a object oriented - test driven way of course

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