Ecommerce Shopping Cart?

by reapr

Posted: 15 years ago 43 replies

WEB DESIGN

I need to build and a shopping cart for my brick and mortar printing supplies company. Products include paper products, toner cartridges both OEM and compatibles and specialty items.

I use Quickbooks. What would be the best cart or way to this?

#cart #ecommerce #shopping

RichMag 15 years ago

Hey Rearr,

I use Zen Cart as my shopping cart. I found it pretty easy to use (their forum is really good) and comes with a lot of free templates and add ons as well.

I was looking at osCommerce but their lack of free templates made me decide on Zen Cart.

Rich
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haymanpl 15 years ago

You could simply add paypal buttons directly into your site so its very simple

I haven't tried oscommerce or zen cart but i hear there could be a steep learning curve. I do own Gravity forms which is A grade and have used WP eCommerce for years and started using it when i was inexperienced and it was pretty easy back then.

Whats the URL to your site?

It really depends on the look you are after, if you want it on your current site or a seperate directory.
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- samphaifan 14 years ago
  
  Just saw in a threat that you know about Gravity Forms and thought i ask you something.
  
  I currently configure a wooCommerce Theme for a client. normaly there is no issue at all as the documentation is well explained. unfortunately i dont get help in the Forum and need some help. All i need to know is, whether you would be willing to give me a tip how i can create such a ordering page like this (see URL) in Gravity Forms (dev.). I installed the necessary Plugins already for the ecommerce Theme.
  In short words,lets say, on a page the 3 steps with different ways to select options for the Product they selected at the beginning then upload a file and as they go further they can add additional items and check out ... lets say a simplification of this way here --- Order Online . I would also pay you something if you could give me a short advice that i am able to start because i dont know how to start with such a form like this....
  Thank you so much for any feedback or advice. I really appreciate that.
  God bless you
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mahesh2010 15 years ago

I think Magento is the best one and its open source cart and its easy to use, we are based ion ecommerce development company and we done more than 800 projects , mostly our customers need this Magento cms only, because it having good futures.
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smoh 15 years ago

I use magento for my ecomm sites. The only problem I find is that it takes a while to fix all the 'seo bugs'. Yes, I know we do SEO ourselves, but the common things like canonical urls, duplicate content etc is annoying with Magento. If you're decent with apache or htaccess, you should be fine. There's a Yoast canonical urls thing there as well. We have a whole crap load of 301 redirects which I'm not too happy using and it takes a lot of time. Then again, we're on magento 1.3.0. Not sure if 1.5.0 has updated these little bugs.
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Jon Potts 15 years ago

I have heard ZenCart is a good plugin but like others I have not used it. I like the Shopp Plugin for Wordpress, its pretty good for SEO also, problem is the learning curve. I think the easiest way would be paypal even though I hate paypal for anything...
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mahesh2010 15 years ago

Magento is the best shopping cart and its most useful for you and easily to promote your product by using this shopping cart and its easy to use . we based on ecommerce development company, most my company customers are needs only these Magento. because its a having the best futures.
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EvaBrown 15 years ago

I work with different eCommerce softwares. I use Zen Cart, PrestaShop, osCommerce, VirtueMart and Huika Shop (Joomla erCommecre extentions), Tomato Cart. I think if you know php, you can use any of this shopping carts easily. They are worldwide popular and good quality. You can read more information at offcial websites
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- awebforyou 15 years ago
  
  I have created an online store program. I created this after feedback from clients with many issues from the opensource carts available and happy feedback from my custom stores but people looking for a more affordable option.
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Ross Cohen 15 years ago

e-Junkie is primarily for digitally-sent products, but check it out to compare as well, I use them and love their system. It can be used with non-digital products just fine.
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Ken Durham 15 years ago

just about any of the carts mentioned will work.
Perhaps set up a test server and test a few of them out to find one that fits you best.
But there is more to having an online store than just having a shopping cart.
Will your CC processor allow online transactions or are you going to need a different merchant account? Are you familiar with SSL certificates? Are you familiar with being PCI compliant? They are starting to crack down hard on those that are not. With fines starting at $25K per violation.
I know a lot of people just set up and go. And many will tell you it is ok. But that can be dangerous and it seems like you have a lot to lose, like your brick and mortar. Just don't jump into it without knowing some of the facts. There is so much misinformation online that it becomes easy to find the answers that you "want", as opposed to the answers that are true.

Good luck!

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goldenspiralstudios 15 years ago

The best cart for that would be magento you can create customized shopping carts as per the specific business needs with it so basically there's nothing you cant do with that platform.
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cherryberry 15 years ago

You must go for Magento or ZenCart. Now a days Magento is mostly used for shopping cart. ZenCart has more flexibility
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- maxmalini 15 years ago
  
  For e-commerce/shopping cart functionality, I can recommend Volusion:
  
  Shopping Cart Software and Ecommerce Software by Volusion Ecommerce Solution
  
  Very user friendly and it is very customizable for SEO.
  
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jainsumit 15 years ago

Hello,

In my sense the Magento is best one, i also using Magento in many of my websites. this is too much easy to use.
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phpdev 15 years ago

BigCommerce, Volusion, ZenCart
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mahesh2010 15 years ago

Hello,

Here is our website please visit here you would find lot of magento templates which on installation will create a new magento website
http://magento-themes.jextn.com

i hope this would help you
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Ryan Butz 15 years ago

I actually just built an eCommerce site using Interspire's Shopping Cart software. From my experience I like it very much. It was a lot of hard work setting it up, but nothing was difficult.
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artyray 15 years ago

definitely shopperpress
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addison.agnote 15 years ago

I suggest Zen Cart. There are hundreds of shopping cart programs available, but none come close to offering the level of options, features and support available with Zen Cart.
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clarkwilliam 14 years ago

That e-commerce shopping cart solutions best you can do to reach the desired profitability, reduce costs and increase profit margins. friendly shopping experience for end users and efficient development of electronic trading platforms for our clients.
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- robinsden 14 years ago
  
  I think pay-pal is probably the simplest solution to your problem. No hassle, no fuss and everyone knows they can be trusted.
  
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PeachCoding 14 years ago

I recommend Magento (for the intermediate to advanced setup) or ZenCart (for anything else).

Hope that helps.
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iuditg 14 years ago

I would strongly suggest zen cart or open cart. I own an eCommerce site and it's done in OpenCart. The backend interface is awesome and userfriendly.

Further if you want something easier yet powerful you can use wordpress with ecommerce themes.
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logowarriors 14 years ago

I will suggest you go for Magento or Zencart. But Magento is very easy to use and understand.
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saunastubes 14 years ago

I think Magento is the best open source and the cart and its easy to use, we ion e-commerce development, and we have done over 800 projects, most of our customers need this CMS Magento, because we want great future.
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detector 14 years ago

look for a product called "Open Cart"
1: its free
2: its easy to setup and use
3: its got enough advanced features to be worth hundreds of dollars

ive got it set up on one of my other sites rebrandables.co.uk and i am happy with it.

i did try zen cart but it looked so 90's.
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aaronwallace 14 years ago

Magento is the best shopping cart. However if you are looking for easy development, then I would suggest prestashop.
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josephvijay 14 years ago

I used the Quick Shopping Cart Tool from Tucktail.com . It was very easy to create with easy options. It had over thousands of quick start designs and color combinations and many other attractive features at most reasonable and affordable cost.
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imp2012 14 years ago

Try ecwid, it's probably the simplest ecommerce system
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longdouble 14 years ago

I use E-Junkie(dot)com for my website.
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vag1002 14 years ago

I think that magento is one of the best and mostly used for shopping cart. Very easy to use it. I recommended it.
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Andrew H 14 years ago

+1 for magento. It is probably one of the best out there because it is really developed and has great support for invoicing, etc. One thing about magento though is that the extensions tend to be quite expensive. Also, it is quite resource intensive - recommend 500mb ram.

Example of the expense.. There is a module to integrate Magento with Quickbooks, but its costs $300!. So yeah I like magento but it might not be feasible for people who wish to get started with no money.
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cuple 14 years ago

IMHO, If you care about the SEO part of your online shop you might want to get one of those shopping cart plugins for Wordpress....
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SocialMarketerX 14 years ago

I think Magento is the best
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SocialMarketerX 14 years ago

ZenCart is a good plugin
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fuzzibunzul 14 years ago

The normal web web host client support you might get probably will not help you with issues that come up with your purchasing island application. Instead, you will have to either determine it out on your own or get in touch with the designers of the program to get help with any issue.
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jasonchanning 14 years ago

3D cart is the easiest to use

Wordpress has plugin called getshopped for free. Easiest to use so far.
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- samphaifan 14 years ago
  
  thanks a lot jason for your answer and your tip, well i will not change now as i already worked a lot on it. at least i should have help to configure Gavic Forms.... Im not sure but here in Warriorforum it has some Webdesigner who are helping others but i dont know anymore how to find them
  
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locke815 14 years ago

I used Magento for shopping cart and I think it's quite user friendly
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- fileppoa 14 years ago
  
  I think Magento is best ecommerce shoping cart, because you can easily developed your cart. Maximam people love Magento.
  
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samphaifan 14 years ago

I am sorry if my question wasn't clear enough, I am not looking for a eShop Solution. I am looking for somebody who can help me with Gravity Forms in WooCommerce (Wordpress), so, anybody? Or where can i get help here please? Thanks a lot
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samphaifan 14 years ago

ok i give up.... as i said i need help with GRAVITY FORMS and i am not searching for an eshopping solution tstststs
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