What do people use for shopping carts?

[mattpiloto]

Any recommendations?

I've done some research and looking around, and am kind of looking at Canada Cart. Anyone have any experience with them or any others they'd like to share?

I don't really have any experience with shopping cart systems so any input is welcome. Thanks!

Matt

[matdwyer]

Honest opinion on that shopping cart software is it is overpriced (for me at least - $249/year adds up quick.

I'm a big open sourced person, and highly recommend you looking into magento and oscommerce. From there you'll need canada post modules (which is fairly easy to set up), payment gateway (& modules), which can be with credit or debit now, and then a good theme (make it, or buy it).

Answer this though first...
1) Are you making it yourself
2) Are you ok with setting everything up & updating?
3) do you have any special requirements or just a basic shopping cart?

Anyway, paying for something that is free and widely used isn't the RFD way :lol:

Good luck!

[fantom]

www.magentocommerce.com (free, open source, and quite untouchable in terms of the features)

www.interspire.com/shoppingcart (pricey, but worth every penny)

[caban]

I am currently testing ubercart w/ Drupal.

It makes for a very clean way to integrate your shopping cart with your web site. It is easy to install if you choose "Ubercart 1.5 (Deluxe) Package."

http://www.ubercart.org

[ashgotti]

I've set up a client with Zen Cart and there was a learning curve but it has features galore. I've also help a client configure OSCommerce and they're pretty similar.

I think that OSCommerce is more user friendly but Zen Cart has a great support forum and support, and has more features.

Either way, go Open Source because of the community support.

[mattpiloto]

I've set up a client with Zen Cart and there was a learning curve but it has features galore. I've also help a client configure OSCommerce and they're pretty similar.

I think that OSCommerce is more user friendly but Zen Cart has a great support forum and support, and has more features.

Either way, go Open Source because of the community support.

Open source is certainly cheaper money wise, but how much time does it take up? I really don't have tons of time to devote to setting up a shopping cart.

[matdwyer]

I am currently testing ubercart w/ Drupal.

It makes for a very clean way to integrate your shopping cart with your web site. It is easy to install if you choose "Ubercart 1.5 (Deluxe) Package."

http://www.ubercart.org

Now I love Drupal, but Drupal, ecommerce, and easy should never be used in the same sentence. It 10x more difficult than one of the dedicated shopping carts - and under developed :-( hopefully that changes.

[projectz]

what's the other choice from open source and what are the positives and negatives of that?

[cdnNick]

oscommerce
zencart
cubecart
virtuemart (add-on to joomla)
magento

Questions:
How many products are you going to have?
How do you want to accept payment?
It will be all products or is it going to be a content site with some products?
Do you want to host it yourself or use something like shopify.com which is a hosted solution?

[g9chan]

I sell software online (colormancer.com) and have been happy with eJunkie. It also lets you sell physical products, but I've no experience with that.