Easiest website/shopping cart setup?

Do a search for open source shopping carts you'll find quite a few.

I just opened my own store using Interspire Shopping Cart software. I have about 475 products in my store so we're pretty similar.

I purchased the $995 Professional licence and it has been pretty great so far. I'm a graphic designer and I know my way around code enough to customize the templates to where I wanted. They have a lot of pretty nice templates to choose from and integrating merchant accounts was relatively painless. Also they have awesome integration with Amazon, Ebay, and many affiliate software (Which I am thinking about setting up for my company). You can try an online demo - Also I think you can get a 1 month free trial.

Their customer support has been great. My two favorite parts about the software are the incredible amounts of SEO you can do to your products, pages, and categories. The best part being their bulk upload feature. If you put together an insanely complete, accurate excel document and save it out as a .CSV the whole store can be uploaded. It took my VA to get my excel document put together almost a month. There are a ton of videos to teach you how to do everything.

I have no affiliation with the company, this is just my experience. I haven't tried any others though. Inspire had everything I was looking for if you can put up $1k.

Edit: I had links to their pricing page, demo page, and a link to my site using the software but I don't have 15 posts. I'm sure you'll be able to find them.

i like virtuemart and zencart, easy to use and mod the template

hi swilliams09,

ask your friend to use oscommerce or magento for his website.
these are highly customizable e-commerce cms systems.

very easy to manage and also supports many payment gateways.

Hi, I recommend OpenCart, it's an free open source cart. Really simple to use and install.

Thanks
Shimon.

Check out Zen Cart. It's free, it's complete, has 3rd party plug ins, and best of all, it now supports Checkout by Amazon, so you don't need to set up a merchant account for credit card processing.

Unlike other 3rd party payment systems like PayPal, your customer does not have to leave the website to process payment.

I changed some of my static ecommerce sites into Wordpress blogs and using the WP-eStore plugin for products. The plugin comes from Tips&Tricks-HQ

I have also used the free version of the WP-ecommerce plugin as well but the previously mentioned one is more professional with great support from the creators.

Neil

I suggest using wordpress + the ShopperPress premium theme. It costs $79

this is going to save you HOURS

Flash - PayPal Shop Template w Deeplinking AS3 - ActiveDen

For me it's virtuemart. VirtueMart is not only as easy to use as Joomla, but it was easy to install and looks very easy to understand and maintain.