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tosp
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« on: January 11, 2007, 06:35:07 AM »
Im looking for a shopping cart for a rather large site.   Based on my quick assessment of Agora and OSCommerce, I wasnt that interested.  Can anyone that has used either of these give me more info though on their opinions? 
I have always also been intrigued by Miva.  Has anyone used theirs?  I see that Miva requires some engine of theirs to be added to the server first though.  I have a dedicated server with LP, but I dont know the first thing about installing anything on it, or if I can even do it.  Is this possible?
Any other shopping carts that anyone has used that you would care to recommend or offer your opinion on?  I'm in a pretty quick hurry to get this up and running.   I am very familiar with html so I can pretty easily customize a shopping cart to fit into my site, but if any of them require any other knowledege of Perl, Java, etc. to customize, then I'm in trouble.
Thanks for any help!
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« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2007, 06:43:55 AM »
Hello!  You might be interested in check out the e-commerce section of our help page here.  It might be able to give you an idea of what you can do and what might work best for you. 
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« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2007, 09:47:48 AM »
Thanks for your reply, but I have read the help pages.....several times actually  LOL  The only thing it does is tell me the 2 shopping carts that LP uses, but I wanted to get some reviews from those who actually use them, as well as find out if I decide to use another shopping cart, such as Miva, that requires their "engine" to be added to the server, can I do that?  There are so many carts out there, I wanted to get some recommendations.
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« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2007, 10:52:27 AM »
tosp, I use osCommerce for my site. You did not say how 'large' a site you needed, or your skill level regarding online commerce. I have about 6000 items (adult XXX) in inventory on my site. Osc. is free, but the learning curve is HUGE.  I've had to learn a fair amount of php to go along with my html skills. Just knowing html is a start for any endeavor, but nothing is going to happen in a hurry, if you are planning on doing this yourself, with limited skills. It took me 4 years to get to where I am now, (averaging 20k in sales a year, and I have a full time regular job as well) and I am still learning every day. Have you looked into Zen cart? This option may be a little easier than osCommerce to get up and running more quickly.
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« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2007, 12:50:16 AM »
I'm with you; I'd love to see some reviews/comparisons of the Free to inexpensive E-commerce/Cart software out there.
I have to agree that OSCommerce has a STEEP learning curve.
Yes, it's FREE, but is it really? what's your time worth to you?
After crashing and burning for the third time after adding an extension, I began looking at other packages.

Have a look and get a demo at http://cs-cart.com

Fairly unknown cart system with some awesome admin features and alot of potential overall.
I don't know how customizible the look is.
One-time purchase for one domain.

I am not affiliated with the company in any way; I'm merely looking it over myself to see if it meets my needs.

Oh, and be careful about installing lots of Fantastico scripts, as I just found malicious script in my index page which was inserted somehow.
Support told me that someone may have gained access through one of the scripts I installed; blog, CMS, etc.

I'm pretty freaked-out about trying to do E-Commerce myself whilst protecting customer info, as well as my own!
I figure I have six months of research to do before I consider asking someone for their credit card.
Listen to Security Now! with Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson at Twit.tv; fantastic show on all aspects of computer-web-electronic security.

cheers
Ross
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« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2007, 01:14:15 AM »
My opinion: OsCommerce is a great opensource project. It offers solid basic functionality for a shopping cart and can be configured easily for basic operation - but the basic "look" of it is pretty ugly without modification.
To customise oscommerce in both looks and functionality becomes hard unless you have good php and html skills.
The Oscommerce community though, is it's biggest asset, with over 12,000 contributions made and updated for oscomemrce by the general prgramming community, and a MASSIVE forum of assistance and coding enginuity.

If you can't afford the time to learn alot of coding, then you need a prepackaged solution, such as zencart, that builds alot of those contributions into the base package, aswell as cleans up some areas of code for you. However should you wish to add modules from other programmers or recode areas yourself, you won't find the supprt community nearly as strong.

Ross's comments about cs-cart: This program actually looks like a cleaned up version of OsCommerce. And provided it only requires mySQL and PHP (which I believe it does), then this can be installed on LunarPages aswell.
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