Cart advice

Slime101 · 31 Jan 2006 at 21:45

I'm looking at moving away from OSCommerce for a major site i run....i'm considering either cube cart or zen cart at the moment and was wondering if anyone had any experience with using them and wished to comment on their stability, ease of setup/use etc.

Particually important is the ability to add attributes to products, this could be radio, drop down type options or multiple text fields for things that are personalised.

Slime101 · 31 Jan 2006 at 22:28

Thanks for the info

Product attributes to the level i need is always a pig to implement, the OSC way is really messy. I have found a modification that handles the text bit so it cant be any worse than osc and once its setup i dont care as long as it works!!

Cubecart seems to be neater, tidier and a lot more compact than OSC, do you find it stable and reliable when in use?

Slime101 · 31 Jan 2006 at 22:57

cheers Matt - itll be fairly well bodged together and hacked about when i implement all the changes needed for the new store but should pull together nicely.

Slime101 · 31 Jan 2006 at 23:09

Nope - not for selling photos, or at least not this particular shop. Its a rebuild of a larger and successful site i run for a company i work with, seeing as i am doign a complete product overhaul to bring it inline with their 2006 product range i thought i'd look into redisign adn that got me onto a complete rebuild!!

Thanks for the offer of help though - i'll shout if i get stuck.

P.S - do you reccomend any "essential" modifications?

Slime101 · 1 Feb 2006 at 21:47

Matt - i dont spose you have any experience with the SEO mod, i installed it and now nothing works, i just get internal server errors which is odd and i dont know why!

Slime101 · 1 Feb 2006 at 23:38

Ry@n said:
Whats wrong with oscommerce ?

Im just asking as i have a site which i will shortly be adding a cart system for customers to buy items. And id like to know whats wrong with it. I want a simple one

thanks

Very complicated and thus can be messy - loads of modules and add ins tho if you cna do a bit of coding its great but its a bit bloated and messy for my needs (after 2 years of use!)