What do you guys use for ecommerce?

14 years ago

For my website: Fitness Equipment | Exercise Equipment | Gym Equipment I use Magento. It's free software though you will want ot pay someone to customise the look and feel (maybe even functionality). What's great about Magento are the extensions you can get for free or pay. These extensions greatly add the functionality of your shoppingcart and there's hundreds of them. Anyhow, check out Magenot yourself at Magento - Home - eCommerce Software for Growth

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yigitkonur

14 years ago

It depends on your content and country. Some countries like Turkey has laws about using Turkish bank's card systems. You can't use Paypal or Plimus in long-run. In addition, some content oriented e-commerce scripts are here. If you need hosting sale e-commerce system, you should use AWBS or WHMCS. As I said, If you give further details, we can help you easily.

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bigballin6161

14 years ago

i want to sell a health supplement on one of my websites

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ebusinesstutor 14 years ago

Originally Posted by bigballin6161

i want to sell a health supplement on one of my websites

For a single product, just use PayPal. No need for a larger shopping cart when you only have a few products.
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keyuria

14 years ago

I do recommend Prestashop 1.4 Alpha Version. It is my favorite. It is very easy to configure and various modules are also readily available (just like wordpress plugins).

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FrankRumbauskas 14 years ago

If you're hosting Magento or another script on your own server then you need to be PCI compliant or risk losing your merchant account which means 2 dedicated servers behind a hardware firewall - very expensive!

For a great low-cost hosted solution I like UltraCart. 1-click upsell, etc., and you can even use their API to have the order form on your own site so you're not sending them to a 3rd party URL for checkout.
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SpiderHunter

14 years ago

From my experience I prefer them in this order:

1. Plimus for security.

2. 2checkout for its appeal to users.

3. PayPal for simplicity but sometimes PP can be a pain in the ass.

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celente

14 years ago

Originally Posted by SpiderHunter

From my experience I prefer them in this order:

1. Plimus for security.

2. 2checkout for its appeal to users.

3. PayPal for simplicity but sometimes PP can be a pain in the ass.

yes i agree, you will get more sales if you give your customer more options.... but not always, it depends on your niche and your offer obviously but plimus and papal work for us.

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JamesGw

14 years ago

I'd recommend a custom cart or maybe Interspire/BigCommerce. Those are the best.

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AnitaCross 14 years ago

I've been using osCommerce for a very long time, and I'm quite happy with it. They've made some big changes recently, making it much easier to customize from the admin.

Like Magento, it is free software. However, there are thousands of add-ons, not hundreds. As with all open source software, some of those add-ons are as good or better than software you'd pay for, some of them are totally useless, and most of them fall somewhere in between.

I think it's readily apparent that we all like what we are use to.

If you aren't into coding, the Presta-Shop keyuria mentioned may be the best bet for you. Although I've never worked with it, plugins would be nice...

If you only have one product, you probably don't need a full-blown shopping cart. But when I put up a site to sell silk plant cleaner, I used osCommerce. I made the front page the sales page. then when someone would buy, there was a full shopping cart supporting their decision. And it made it really easy to expand into other products later.

The nice thing about the free software, though, is you can install one and try it out, uninstall it, then install another and try it out, and so on. After you've played around in the Admin, you'll have a better idea of which solution will work best for you.

Best of luck.

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abpages 14 years ago

Originally Posted by JamesGw

I'd recommend a custom cart or maybe Interspire/BigCommerce. Those are the best.

+1 for this.

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drumguru69

14 years ago

i just built a site using ecwid and I am quite happy with it... .it is a third party shopping cart which means all of your inventory can be controlled at one place... and put onto as many site as you wish... also has delimiter file so that you can set up "auto feeds" to other sites...

good stuff....

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Morphius

14 years ago

I just used Word Press shopping cart and it works great, Magento requires a lot of hardware. Great software, but you better be ready to host it on a strong server. BTW had lunch with Magento's SEO and he totally agreed with my hardware concerns. He told me...Magento is not for every server"

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ferriswannabe 14 years ago

Do you use wordpress?, if you do and your familiar with the backend, then use a theme.

I just built an online store using a wordpress theme from themeforest.

Go to the wordpress section, then retail, there are a variety of quality looking sites there.

The was way easier then learning a new type of software. I use wordpress for other sites, so it was easier for me.

Paypal is integrated into the theme already, so it was a matter of only putting the id type info.
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dave_hermansen

14 years ago

BigCommerce is probably the best solution out there at this point. 3DCart & Magento are probably 2nd & 3rd in my mind.

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Steven Miranda

14 years ago

I use Cart66 & Wordpress. Works very well.

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Mikeys

14 years ago

I use big commerce. Hands down the cheapest and best cart out there.

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Sheila Atwood

14 years ago

I have been on a similar search for a client. I would love to put her on WordPress but I her shopping cart needs to much more extensive.

You might find this article very helpful. It explains the formats the others have mentioned.

40 Fantastic eCommerce and Shopping Cart Themes

Also take a good look at PrestaShop Free Open-Source e-Commerce Software for Web 2.0 - very nice themes and plugins.

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warrich

14 years ago

Content is king buddy, this is just about the worst kept secret these days. For Ecommerce sites it is better to target long tailed keywords that bring traffic to specific pages in your site. Make sure you rank for these words and have them in all the places.

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FrankRumbauskas 14 years ago

Originally Posted by warrich

Content is king buddy, this is just about the worst kept secret these days.

Yep this is the "dirty little secret" that the SEO guys don't want anyone to know! Especially after the recent Google changes. Example: I set up a new AdWords blog about a month ago, starting doing one post a day with good solid content, and it's already on the first page of Google results for 'adwords blog' and with zero back links or bookmarking or any of that nonsense.

Sorry to resurrect a thread that's a bit old, but here's why:

I may be moving back to UltraCart. I love Synergyx- in fact I like it better - but the problem is that to avoid storing cc #'s for recurring products I need to use Authorize.net's CIM which does not process AVS on recurring orders. And my merchant account like most others throw a 2.5% penalty on top of the existing fee when there is no AVS which is costing me a couple of thousand a month.

The solution is a PCI-compliant solution to store cc #'s but that's 2 dedicated servers in a qualified datacenter plus hardwire firewall and would defeat the cost savings.

So a year after canceling UltraCart, I'm returning, go figure LOL.. I'll be using there API since my site has the "green bar" EV SSL which massively improves conversions, so I'll keep the checkout page on my site and it will send the data to UltraCart to process the order.

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AceOfShirts

14 years ago

I use WordPress with wp eStore. I also use idevaffiliate, which integrates with wp eStore, to run an affiliate program where 1 account tracks commissions on all of my custom shirt printing sites.

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fluffythewondercat 14 years ago

I use Yahoo Stores. I don't recommend it.

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pbdollars

14 years ago

hi, you can contact me via PM if you like. I should be able to help you with this.

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Ryan Rieth

14 years ago

I started out with ProStores... It SUCKS, don't use it. I moved over to Adobe Business Catalyst and I'm really happy with it. I haven't found anything that we can't do with it. Our site we built on it is shieldskins.com if you want to take a look at it.

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murtuza

14 years ago

If you are a non techie...

1. Use wordpress to setup your site, make your first page squeeze page.

2. Use ultimate marketing center to setup your autoresponder. You can even setup ad tracking system, membership sites, affiliate tracking, etc out there.

3. Use hostgator to setup your web hosting and onlineNIC for your domain name.

4. Use 2checkout, paypal, etc to accept payments from your clients. You can use 2checkout to setup your affiliate tracking system.

This is all you need to get started...

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14 years ago

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sbucciarel

Banned 14 years ago

Woo Themes just put out a new ecommerce line of themes
WooCommerce | WooThemes

One of them is free. They look really nice.

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JimMichael

14 years ago

I stick with paypal for now. Not a fan though.

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14 years ago

Zen Cart, a free cart, works perfectly for me. You can use almost any payment module with it

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TwinDragon

14 years ago

Great thread. Answers the question for me.

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14 years ago

If you want a fast cart an very easy an simple to use. Try opencart it's free too.

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jeffreyhuan

14 years ago

Opencart is a great ecommerce platform especially for starters. It is easy to install and use. Magento is complicated with more features. It is up to your choice.

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MarcoJardel 14 years ago

I have built plenty of eCommerce sites using Joomla & Virtuemart component.

This has worked well for my clients, but to be honest there are tons of eCommerce solutions out there that work well. Your choice would ultimately depend upon the functionality that you require and your budget.
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Benji786

14 years ago

i am useing mycart 6.0 its inculude lot of fetures !!!

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RichMag

14 years ago

Count me in the Zen-Cart camp. Lots of free templates and the help forum is second to none. There is a bit of a learning curve if you want to customize a template but you should have no problem finding answers on the forum. Best of all it is free.

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bkat52

14 years ago

I use prestashop.. started with OSCommerce but dumped it in favor prestashop because it seemed easier to learn and quicker to build my shop (at least for me). So far so good. I was able to avoid all the paid modules. Although I can see now where some of them would be beneficial

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mdyson

14 years ago

Originally Posted by bkat52

I use prestashop.. started with OSCommerce but dumped it in favor prestashop because it seemed easier to learn and quicker to build my shop (at least for me). So far so good. I was able to avoid all the paid modules. Although I can see now where some of them would be beneficial

Nice to see you again bkat! :p I use PrestaShop with only free modules as well, but I got lucky and discovered a great area on their forums with tons of additional free modules on top of the defaults to really customize my store.

Cheers,
Matthew

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Increase Media

14 years ago

1shoppingcart.com is a good one to use.

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mKane

14 years ago

I'm intending to set up a Wordpress ecommerce site which has to be able to handle products with variations. For example, different item designs and sizes. I also need the functionality which would allow me to synchronize suppliers' inventories with mine, to allow me to display item availability in real time.

Can anyone suggest a suitable WP theme and appropriate set of plugins for this?

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admin@subashseo.com

13 years ago

I recommend you zen cart. We did recently e-commerce website done with zen cart.

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13 years ago

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