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Recommendations for Setting Up an eCommerce Site?

by JCWHong
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Hey everyone,

I have potential offline client who runs a gift basket/gift wrapping store. She has a website right now, but it's just a "branding" website -- it just shows pictures of her product and doesn't sell anything.

I'm going to propose a new website for her that will allow her to sell about 50-100 products to people directly off the website (so it would be an eCommerce site), but I'm not sure what type of platform/shopping cart solution to use for her new website.

I was thinking about just setting her up on WordPress and installing an eCommerce plugin like the Instinct one because I'd like to keep the costs low. Is this a good idea?

Can anyone make any recommendations?

Thanks!

Justin
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  • Profile picture of the author Charles Washington
    Try osCommerce. It is free and a one click install from most hosts.

    It might have a bit of a learning curve, but it will do everything you need it to do.

    And... She can upload new items very easily.
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    • Profile picture of the author reapr
      osCommerce is a good one.

      Have you looked into Zencart.

      Joomla CMS has several ecommerce plugins that worked great ... I personally thought VirtueMart was the best overall solution and it is free. I have used it along with the other mentioned solutions. You should check out joomla because of the vast amount of plugins ...

      It would be interesting to know what you go with.
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  • Profile picture of the author Charles Washington
    Also, I have one Wordpress site I did for an offline client that uses a free ecommerce plugin called wp-ecommerce.

    It works pretty good for an integrated WP shopping cart, but adds extrapages to your blog.
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  • Profile picture of the author teesee150
    I've used osCommerce on two different sites. Fairly quick and easy to setup.
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  • Profile picture of the author raamanand
    I have personally used OsCommerce and it works very well. THere are a number of plugins that can automate many tasks. Works well.
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  • Profile picture of the author JCWHong
    Hey guys,

    First of all, thank you for all of your responses.

    I have a follow-up question though: are OsCommerce, VirtueMart, etc. all plugins/scripts that I would install into the website platform (e.g. WordPress.)?
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    Justin


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  • Profile picture of the author Randy Bheites
    Instant solution: Yahoo Stores.

    For under $50 a month, she can instantly have a top-quality e-commerce site with all the risk tools and analysis features, list building, secure transaction server, etc etc etc.

    And you don't have to code diddly. Highly recommend for smaller retailers (under 1000 items).
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    • Profile picture of the author tyroneshum
      Hi Justin,

      Have you tried Magento commerce? It's a really neat e-commerce site and you can integrate the Wordpress blog into it. Maybe something to consider as Magento will probably be the next opensource shopping cart software people talk about.

      Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author RGallowitz
    OScommerce sucks. Go with CRELoaded. Offer free shipping on all products. Install the power seo urls module for creloaded and you are ready to go.
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  • Profile picture of the author Azlan
    I recommend CREloaded which is a derivation from oscommerce. I use it for my ecommerce store. good luck.
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