Advantages & Disadvantages of Shopping Carts
It is important to know when selecting your shopping cart what features you need. All the shopping carts below feature the following:
- Customer management
- Product management
- Variety of payment and shipping modules
- Order receipt emails
- Ability to use SSL secure layers for ordering process
However the shopping carts vary when it comes to:
- Time it takes to modify the cart to look like a current web design
- WYSIWYG ability to modify product descriptions using different fonts, colors, etc.
- Ability to import/export from Excel spreadsheet
- Wholesale/Reseller Pricing
In this review we will be going over PHP/MySQL shopping carts that run both Linux and Windows servers. We will not be reviewing pay-per-month shopping carts. We feel this offer less value because they have expensive monthly fees. Also – they usually do not allow access to the source code of the system or much customization of the shopping cart. The following shopping carts below are open-source meaning that you can modify the source code and customize the shopping cart to your needs.
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Magento http://www.magentocommerce.com Magento is one of the newer shopping carts on the block but has already attracted a large following. The coding is based on the latest PHP 5 object oriented coding standards and the Zend framework. |
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Oscommerce Oscommerce is the basis for both Zen Cart and CRE Loaded. It runs well and is a good back to basics shopping cart. |
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Zen Cart Zen Cart has a very nice wide array of features based on Oscommerce but has gone its own path. Some of the nice features include product attributes managers, template system, html editor for regular web page contents, built in coupon code system, and more. |
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X-Cart X-Cart is a commercial package, but one of the most competitively priced and easy to modify. |
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nopCommerce nopCommerce is an open source e-commerce solution that is ASP.NET 4.0 based with a MS SQL 2005 (or higher) backend database. |
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