E-Commerce Online Shopping Carts - Which One Should I use?
That is a common question that we get when clients call. There are so many shopping carts out there and it is hard to know which one to use for your web site. We Use SalesIgniter, Zencart & OS Commerce, we find them to be the best and easiest to use.
E-Commerce Features (Zencart & OS Commerce Only)
* Customer management
* Product management
* Variety of payment and shipping modules
* Order receipt emails
* Ability to use SSL secure layers for ordering process
What it will cost
Bronze Shopping Cart Design From $500.00 inc gst (Zencart & OS Commerce Only)
* Premium Deisgned Website Template.
* Store Setup & Design.
* All Context required.
* Banner & image Designing.
* Complete Installation & Setup onto your Server.
Silver Website Design From $1000.00 inc gst (Zencart & OS Commerce Only)
* Premium Deisgned Website Template.
* Store Setup & Design.
* All Context required.
* Up to 50 Products Installed.
* Banner & image Designing.
* Complete Installation & Setup onto your Server.
Gold Website Design From $2000.00 inc gst (Zencart & OS Commerce Only)
* Premium Deisgned Website Template.
* Store Setup & Design.
* All Context required.
* Up to 500 Products Installed.
* Banner & image Designing.
* Complete Installation & Setup onto your Server.
Additions extras
* Online Rental Store Website + $500.00
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Zen Cart - The Art of E-commerce
Zen Cart has a very nice wide array of features based on Oscommerce but has gone its own path. You can not install contributions directly from the Oscommerce web site onto Zen Cart. Some of the nice features include product attributes managers, template system, html editor for regular web page contents, built in coupon code system, ability to select what credit cards you accept, and more. An issue with Zen Cart right now is the Easy Populate contribution which would let you import products from an Excel sheet does not work yet. So if you need this feature we recommend the other shopping carts.
Advantages +
* No licensing fees
* Stable
* Many contributions from Oscommerce already installed
Disadvantages -
* not possible to use Oscommerce contributions, they must be converted to Zen Cart
* Admin interface is a little messy in certain areas because there are so many contributions installed
Oscommerce MS 2.2 - The Cart That Started Them All
Oscommerce is the basis for both Zen Cart and CRE Loaded. As such is it is simpler and does not have all of the contributions already added that Zen Cart and CRE Loaded do. It runs well though and is a good back to basics shopping cart.
Advantages +
* Has the most available number of contributions and modifications
* Recent security update brings it up to date with MySQL 5 and PHP 5
Disadvantages -
* It can take a lot of time and money to install all the contributions you want (add-ons)
* No graphic template system meaning it is harder to modify the design