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Looking for a good shopping cart service
Posted by: Andy 2001-11-28 21:20:24

Hello,

I'm helping somebody design an e-commerce site.

I know quite a lot about web design, graphics design, etc., but I know next to nothing about e-commerce solutions. Would anybody happen to know of any good (and possibly cheap) shopping cart services?

The e-commerce site that is being designed is a whole sale site, so there will be quite a few products (at least 100).

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Andy

Re: Looking for a good shopping cart service
Posted by: lauren78 2007-12-18 17:09:29 In reply to: Andy

Hi Andy,
I just started using Flying Cart, really quick to get up and running. They say they are launching customizable CSS in 2 weeks - which will be good for further customization of my store. I really like their marketing tools, they allow me to upload to Google product search with one click...
Lauren

Re: Looking for a good shopping cart service
Posted by: kungfufrog 2007-07-26 16:40:03 In reply to: Andy

We just setup our online store with BlinkCart Shopping Cart
http://www.blinkcart.com
last week and i would highly recommend them. Took us 10 minutes to integrate it on our website.

Re: Looking for a good shopping cart service
Posted by: psagmenos 2006-02-07 10:13:40 In reply to: Andy

If you’re not a programmer and choose an open source solution, you might end up paying much more than you can imagine. I have been there, paying programmer fees to set up the store, then fees for maintenance and fees for updates, because if you don’t update an open source solution all the time it gets easily hacked. These fees were on top of web hosting, web design, payment processing, security checking and other fees. And I had to do with over 5 different persons if you include the hosting company and a web marketing consultant.
Now, I’m with one of the “software-as-a-service” solutions that offer everything I need for a monthly subscription fee. A powerful ecommerce engine, hosting, support, upgrades, integrated marketing and design tools. I’m very happy with both this model and the services company I’m with, magnetcommerce.com . The only issue is that I don’t have the flexibility I had in the past, when I could ask the programmer to customize anything I wanted. But I don’t complain, I would never go back…
Good luck to your friend's store!
Steve

Re: Looking for a good shopping cart service
Posted by: John2004 2004-12-10 19:09:02 In reply to: Andy

Hello, Andy!
There are many shopping carts using different technologies. You can start from free shoppinga carts such as osCommerce, Zencart. But the don't provide support. If you need support you can buy commercials shopping carts. Some of them listed at http://www.onlyphp.com/browse-22.html. Or you can search Yahoo, MSN for shopping carts.
Thanks.
John
http://www.ext-cart.com

Re: Looking for a good shopping cart service
Posted by: mchowdhary 2003-03-20 08:42:08 In reply to: Andy

Hello Andy,
I am aware of one such shopping cart software which is very user friendly and I believe will surely solve your purpose to build an end-to-end ecommerce site. It has all the unique features to support both the wholesale as well as retail clients. Some of its features like quantity discounts will come in real handy for a wholesale client. Visit the product site at http://www.goecart.com/ or contact their US office at 203-336-2284. I am sure this will solve your purpose. Best of luck.
Manish Chowdhary
mchowdhary@machrotech.com

Re: Looking for a good shopping cart service
Posted by: chiefofficer 2003-02-20 10:52:30 In reply to: Andy

You can find several Open Source solutions at http://www.sourceforge.org in various programming languages, such as Perl, PHP, and even ASP.
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These e-commcerce packages range from simple shopping cart, to complex cart, billing, catalog and inventory systems.
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good luck,
Chief Officer
www.chiefofficer.com

Re: Looking for a good shopping cart service
Posted by: mchowdhary 2003-03-22 00:12:22 In reply to: chiefofficer

Check out <a href="http://GoECart.com">GoECart.com</a>. They have a pretty powerful and affordable shopping cart system with very comprehensive set of features.

Re: Looking for a good shopping cart service
Posted by: BuzzLightyear 2003-01-22 09:57:15 In reply to: Andy

How do you "post" a new message topic in this forum? All I can find is a "reply" button. Thanks!

how in the world do you "post" a new message topic?
Posted by: akshuneer 2003-01-27 04:15:55 In reply to: BuzzLightyear

I'm in the same boat as BuzzLightyear...
Either I'm missing something...OR this is the most counter-intuitive message board I've ever seen....how do you post a new message?
Please help...

Re: Looking for a good shopping cart service
Posted by: BuzzLightyear 2003-01-22 09:19:32 In reply to: Andy

There's a a very inexpensive cart with a lot of features at http://www.candypress.com

Re: Looking for a good shopping cart service
Posted by: softmtal 2002-05-30 00:57:30 In reply to: Andy

Hello Andy,
What exactly you need? Do you want to find the cheap shopping cart or just install the existing cart?
Do you need the processing card or something else...
Alex
it_developer@mail.com

Re: Looking for a good shopping cart service--ME TOO! :)
Posted by: butterflylisa 2003-01-20 01:46:10 In reply to: softmtal

I too am looking for shopping cart features/software. I am in the process of building my business web site/retail and plan to integrate with paypal, HOWEVER, I am unsure of how to obtain software to do an auto inventory so that I am not over selling products to my clients. (i.e. I have 200 available and a client wants 225 of the item).
Does anyone know of inexpensive software or coding that can be used for this feature? I am new at this; however, I am fairly proud of myself for learning html and building a pretty good site, if I do say so myself! :) This is one of the last issues I must deal with prior to my Grand Opening, and I would really like some input/advice from anyone! :)
Thanks in advance!
Lisa

Re: Looking for a good shopping cart service--ME TOO! :)
Posted by: SofizarNet 2005-01-26 00:51:45 In reply to: butterflylisa

We use OS-Commerce for most of our clients' sites. Its a fairly good, free system(available from source-forge) with excellent default functionality. Also quite easy to set up. Right out of the "box" it will check to see if a particular item is unavailable in the desired quantities. It will signal this to the user in realtime, as as to the owner via email. Wish you best of luck...
-Zafar
www.sofizar.net