Complete Online Ecommerce Solutions

roboffer · 19 May 2006 at 12:58

Looking into the easiest way of setting up a web presence for my girl friends dad, who has a business and would like to offer sales on his site. Currently Ive put together a few pages that he can edit, but want to take it a bit further to add the facility to buy products.

Hes come across http://www.actinicexpress.co.uk/ which according to him is quite straight forward and seems to offer what he needs.

Anyone any experience? The demo store is shockingly bad from what I can see, but there are some customisation options available.

I could build something myself given the time, but thats one thing I dont have much of at the moment. If there is a reasonably cheap solution thats easy for him to manage, that would be ideal.

Any other options or recommendations? Bonus points if it includes payment processing.

RobH · 19 May 2006 at 13:18

Someone posted http://www.oscommerce.com/ before in a similar thread, may be worth looking at and seeing if it has any of your requirements.

zetec452 · 19 May 2006 at 13:19

www.x-cart.com seems to be a pretty popular system.

MossyUK · 19 May 2006 at 18:29

from what i gather, actinic runs OcUK's store.

There is also Miva Merchant or something.

Beansprout · 19 May 2006 at 18:32

Oscommerce, Zen Cart (a fork of oscommerce, supposedly better) - both those have huge communities - www.oscommerce.info - you can find out / do practically anything with them.

The only problem is that in terms of programming Oscommerce at least is pre-historic.

You get what you pay for really and in terms of the paid systems...Actinic is popular but it's a total mess whereas X-Cart seems a lot more modern and is quite popular, too.

Slime101 · 24 May 2006 at 11:03

OSCommerce is horrible, we used it for 3 years and now use Cubecart which is streets ahead