Online shop software suggestions

Ry@n · 7 Mar 2007 at 13:08

Basically my dads online shop isnt doing so great, it took quite a while to setup but its just not good enough really.

Im personally willing to help him by settings one up and adding items etc, and basically doing the on and offline admin work involved.

So does anyone have some online shop software they could reccomend?

Currently using os-commerce, and the url is www.mxmadness.co.uk

Thanks for any help, you dont know how much i want to be able to help him.
Ryan

Mark M · 7 Mar 2007 at 13:22

I dont think there is anything wrong with os-commerce personally. Why not just try and customise it a bit?

Wayn0r · 7 Mar 2007 at 15:56

oscommerce is shockingly coded, slow and not the easiest to customize style wise.

I suggest you try cubecart. brilliant software, easy to customize, free with copyright on it etc.

Ry@n · 7 Mar 2007 at 20:37

Thanks for your suggestions.

What do you think looks better out of oscommerce and cubecart (in a customers view).

This is a little tester i quickly set up: http://www.mxmadness.co.uk/cart/

Mark M · 7 Mar 2007 at 21:30

As much as it pains me to say it, cubecart does actually look better

breamy1990 · 7 Mar 2007 at 22:23

Ry@n said:
Thanks for your suggestions.

What do you think looks better out of oscommerce and cubecart (in a customers view).

This is a little tester i quickly set up: http://www.mxmadness.co.uk/cart/

looks good, can i ask what skin that is ?

Ry@n · 8 Mar 2007 at 12:20

You get 3 skins as standard. This one is called 'killer'

You can change them in the main admin page.

The_KiD · 8 Mar 2007 at 13:32

Couldnt tell you which one to use, but have done work with osCommerce and have to say it is god awful to work with and customised and as already stated the coding behind it is terrible!

WotDa · 8 Mar 2007 at 14:00

Mark M said:
Cubecart does actually look better

as Mark said, go with the cube, looks loads better imo.

Mort · 9 Mar 2007 at 01:24

Ry@n said:
Basically my dads online shop isnt doing so great, it took quite a while to setup but its just not good enough really.

Currently I am developing a customised e-commerce engine for a client for work (funnily enough for a bike store), so if your Dad is interested in getting something more suited just to his needs then that could be the way to go?

Alternativley he could just require some proper marketing and advertisement to get more traffic.