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mikew
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« on: July 10, 2008, 06:47:14 PM »

I am new to site building, etc, but am a quick study. We are looking to move our current site to LP (current host is holding us hostage $200 per hour to make minor modifications, and we don't own the source code) - most of it was written in Cold Fussion. It is a simple site that displays company information and an very successful ecommerce site.

We are looking for a shopping cart that is fairly easy to learn, but powerful enough to get the use we need. Our current cart allows the customer to make a purchase, validate credit cards and calculate shipping (the easy part). It also has an extensive admin site where the staff input large wholesale/retail orders, track customer information, report on sales and deal with the multi-teer Florida Sales Tax. It acts almost like a point-of-sale system for 45% of our sales. All sales are either ecommerce or mail-order, we have no walk in customers. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Also, what are people using as a store locater?

Thanks in advance...
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« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2008, 05:15:33 AM »

I would suggest you check out oscommerce and see if it can do everything you need.  It is probably one of the more popular choices out there, so searching online and looking around for help with it you'd probably find more with it than anywhere else.
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« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2008, 07:14:51 PM »

Yes, osCommerce should certainly be on your short list. Be sure to go to the community forums (http://forums.oscommerce.com) and click on Community > Contributions to see thousands of add-ons. Maybe some (or most) of your second part wishlist is in there.
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« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2008, 02:53:12 PM »

I use and am partial to CS-Cart myself. It's not free tho like osCommerce is. I started out with osCommerce & moved it because it wasn't working for me.

First off, most of the important things, such as SEO, need to be added to osCommerce yourself. There IS an extensive list of modules you can add & all come with instructions, plus they have support for them in the forum. BUT the more you modify your store, the harder it is to add additional modifications. All instructions are based on unmodified code. Using a comparing editor helps but you can still run into problems.

CS-cart on the other hand comes with everything I wanted to add to my osCommerce cart (& I am an anal perfectionist & wanted everything!).  Surprised Cost is about $200 tho, but well worth it (for me anyway).

That's my 2-cents.
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