Comments on: Choosing the Best Ecommerce Shopping Cart

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:07:43 +0000

I highly recommend FastCommerce.com to anyone starting a business.

Small business owners need a professional e-commerce alternative. FastCommerce.com is a low-cost, high powered e-commerce platform that is free for the first fifty products, and 29.95 for 2,000 products.

Beautiful templates, great back office tools, no set up costs, and no contract.

The Small Business e-Commerce Alternative: FastCommerce

By: baron78

baron78 — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:48:46 +0000

zencart is Really good for anyone starting a new website….

By: Shopaholic

Shopaholic — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:42:57 +0000

Great comparison between these major shopping cart,it’s very useful infoemation for people who want to start ecommerce.

By: MIke - Jstoreonline

MIke - Jstoreonline — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:12:20 +0000

We found that osCommerce and C.R.E. had major limitations. We needed a CMS interface so clients could add, delete or update information on web pages and special features pages such, Free Giveaway, Gift with Purchase, Special Value with Purchase, and Item of the day work seemlessly with the CMS. So we ended up writing own shopping system.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:37:16 +0000

Very nice article. It gives a good explanation of some of the top carts. I do recommend adding other big ecommerce softwares such as http://www.3dcart.com, http://www.crowncart.com, http://www.volusion.com and http://www.pinnaclecart.com.

I will be adding this blog to my favorites. :)

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:14:08 +0000

X-Cart Pro is very easy in usage. The main privilege is that it allows to add multiple providers, sometimes, of course, additional modules are needed.
I have been working for long with osCommerce and can recommend it as it is open source and it is highly customizable. The code is very simple for understanding and logically structured.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:45:45 +0000

I’m disappointed you aren’t offering http://www.pinnaclecart.com. I moved away from OS due to the lack of support and the problems trying to do the day to day work. It was very hard to operate from someone that just wanted to get into the cart and go. Pinnacle Cart came along and saved me a ton of time and I make a lot more money now.

By: Shopping Cart

Shopping Cart — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:11:53 +0000

Excellent article & comparison thanks! It’s posts like this that help people make smart choices when it comes to E-commerce.

By: Benn

Benn — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:58:21 +0000

ZenCart is the winner, by a mile. I’ve been using them all and there simply is no contest in my mind.

By: Seo Pro

Seo Pro — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:23:55 +0000

I highly recommend BlingCart Shopping Cart Software. It is very easily customizable and comes with many unique features that makes it so easy to start your online ecommerce business.

By: Tina

Tina — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:11:35 +0000

Thanks for all the great information!

By: seo

seo — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:41:59 +0000

We never found shopping so fascinating and enticing but three kudos to ecommerce solution that has made shopping available online saving so much of our precious time and energy. Added to this, this solution ensures dynamic, revenue-generating and database-driven content transactions.

By: Tiara

Tiara — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:18:11 +0000

Hi Jillian,

Like I said above, it’s all about the features YOU need most. So I’d compare the features in the plans that automatically come with your LP account to the ones at objectware’s site. It looks like their solution may also be hosted on their own servers or you may need to install it on ours.

Advantage-wise, again, look at the features and compare. It seems like the link you provided may offer a bit more customization, but I can’t tell for sure.

The only main disadvantage I can see is that we wouldn’t have tutorials to help you with simple errors with this other software. Our staff also knows the shopping carts we provide better, so it’d be easier for them to troubleshoot if you can’t figure out the installation, etc. Any questions about the installation for that other cart would likely have to be done through their site.

You might want to shoot this company an email and ask a couple simple questions like “Is this software hosted with you or with my hosting company?” and “what requirements should my hosting company have in place in order to run this software?” I.E. if they run ASP.NET, you’ll have to be on a Windows machine, and if it requires root access you’ll need a VPS or Dedicated Server, etc.

I hope that helps! :) Good luck with whatever you end up choosing!

By: Jillian

Jillian — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:05:21 +0000

Hi Tiara, thank you for the great reviews. Can you tell me what the differences (advantages/disadvantages) are between the solutions you reviewed and a more customizable solution such as http://ecommerce.objectwareinc.com ? Thank you once again.

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