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Best shopping cart?

by highrider21
9 replies
I am trying to build a website for my sister and her boyfriend and they want a shopping cart on it. I searched google and found a few open source shopping carts like zen-cart and oscommerce but am not sure if they are any good. Does anyone know of a really good free/open source shopping cart? Also, a good way to accept payments like something better than using paypal?

They are starting a sports company that sells clothing and I guess gloves and I don't think they will be selling a million things like amazon or something so they don't need a huge shopping cart. Also I am hosting their site with hostgator.

Feel free to check out the site so far and let me know what you think. Bullzeye

Thanks.
#cart #shopping
  • Profile picture of the author HomeBizNizz
    Originally Posted by highrider21 View Post

    I I searched google and found a few open source shopping carts like zen-cart and oscommerce but am not sure if they are any good. Does anyone know of a really good free/open source shopping cart?
    OpenSource/Free:
    - osCommerce
    - ZenCart (osCommerce clone)
    - CubeCart
    - Joomla with Virtuemart
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  • Profile picture of the author dilqncho
    Contact me at Skype and will give you some to try
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  • Profile picture of the author HomeBizNizz
    Go nuts and test them: Open Source eCommerce Scripts - OpenSourceCMS
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  • Profile picture of the author techgirl
    I am using cubecart for many of my clients and I think it is the best cart available in the market.
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  • Profile picture of the author phptechie
    Hi,

    I have worked with OSCommerce for few of my clients & it stands out of the crowd in-terms of free shopping cart package, also there is huge community to help you with issues.
    Also it has lot of payment gateway integrations apart from Paypal like Authorize.net , 2CO.COM etc,..

    It should be worth-while using OSCommerce.

    BTW: I'm no way related to OSCommerce guys , but have worked with this script for many of my clients , so this is not promotional thread :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author highrider21
    Thanks everyone. I installed tried cubecart, zencart, and oscommerce. I didn't like the way cubecart looked at all. It was extremely small on my screen. I will probably go with zencart or oscommerce whichever one my sister likes best.
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  • Profile picture of the author chrisranjana.com
    There is no *best* shopping cart.
    Only the cart that is best for you.
    I like opencart and magento.
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    Chris, Developer, Chrisranjana.com,
    AWS Developer GCP Engineer Python NodeJS Programmer

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  • Profile picture of the author camalus1026
    I've had a little past experience with OSCommerce and never had any problems. Like others mentioned, there are quite a few out there to play around with. Happy hunting!
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    • Profile picture of the author highrider21
      I think I'm going to go with oscommerce. Now I need to figure out how to set everything up. I have it installed but need to learn how upload the logos, change the layout, add products and so on. Does anyone know of a good website or book to learn how to set up OScommerce?

      Also how do I set it up so they can accept payments? From what I understand they need a merchant account, but once they get one how do I connect that to oscommerce?

      Thanks again.
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