Comments on: What Open Source Shopping Cart Should I Use? http://chasesagum.com/what-open-source-shopping-cart-should-i-use Open Source Tools For Businesses Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:08:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: admin http://chasesagum.com/what-open-source-shopping-cart-should-i-use#comment-4491 admin Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:35:15 +0000 http://chasesagum.com/what-open-source-shopping-cart-should-i-use#comment-4491 Thank you for your information. Don't worry about the "Sales Pitch" man. Your welcome to sell us your open source project any time you want to :) Good stuff though. I have featured it in a post on this blog for you. Thank you for your information. Don’t worry about the “Sales Pitch” man. Your welcome to sell us your open source project any time you want to :) Good stuff though. I have featured it in a post on this blog for you.

]]> By: Andy Lowe http://chasesagum.com/what-open-source-shopping-cart-should-i-use#comment-4450 Andy Lowe Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:44:09 +0000 http://chasesagum.com/what-open-source-shopping-cart-should-i-use#comment-4450 Disclaimer: I am an <a href="http://www.ubercart.org" rel="nofollow">Ubercart</a> developer: Chase, This is a great analysis! I have used, or at least tested all of these e-commerce systems and, for the most part, you are spot on. If it were me, I would recommend Zen Cart over OScommerce in almost every situation. For those people who don't know, Zen Cart is a fork of OScommerce. Zen Cart was forked for all the right reasons which I won't go into, but the result is better code and a better community around Zen Cart IMHO. Magento is a great stand alone cart. You are correct, it is a little resource intensive, but that is the price you pay for a flexible feature rich cart. WP E-Commerce is a good solution for sites which are mainly blogging with a little e-commerce on the side. Not exactly feature rich, but easy to use and well suited to what most Word Press users need. Warning: Ubercart sales pitch follows: After years of looking at e-commerce solutions and running multiple e-commerce sites for a living, I arrived at one basic truth. A successful E-commerce site includes a good CMS. Her is how I arrived at this. Anyone can put up an e-commerce site. The hard part is getting sales. You won't get sales without visitors. You won't get visitors without search engine (Google) placement. You wont' get search engine placement without good, fresh content. You won't be able to create good, fresh content without a Content Management System to manage it. Therefore a successful e-commerce needs good CMS integration. This is why we designed Ubercart to be fully integrated into <a href="http://www.drupal.org" rel="nofollow">Drupal</a>. Not only does Ubercart gain good content from <a href="http://www.drupal.org" rel="nofollow">Drupal</a>, but we also get all the great features, modules, and themes of <a href="http://www.drupal.org" rel="nofollow">Drupal</a>. Here are a few features Ubercart supports which Chase didn't list: Paypal & Google Checkout Linkpoint API Purchase with / without an account Order / product import and export Terms of service tool - (force accept) Control redirection after adding product to cart Newsletter Feature Polls Manufactures Block Google Sitemap tool A good rating and review system Authorize.net integration And many more. For more information on Ubercart, go to <a href="http://www.ubercart.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.ubercart.org</a> Peace Andy Disclaimer: I am an Ubercart developer:

Chase, This is a great analysis! I have used, or at least tested all of these e-commerce systems and, for the most part, you are spot on. If it were me, I would recommend Zen Cart over OScommerce in almost every situation. For those people who don’t know, Zen Cart is a fork of OScommerce. Zen Cart was forked for all the right reasons which I won’t go into, but the result is better code and a better community around Zen Cart IMHO.

Magento is a great stand alone cart. You are correct, it is a little resource intensive, but that is the price you pay for a flexible feature rich cart.

WP E-Commerce is a good solution for sites which are mainly blogging with a little e-commerce on the side. Not exactly feature rich, but easy to use and well suited to what most Word Press users need.

Warning: Ubercart sales pitch follows:
After years of looking at e-commerce solutions and running multiple e-commerce sites for a living, I arrived at one basic truth. A successful E-commerce site includes a good CMS. Her is how I arrived at this. Anyone can put up an e-commerce site. The hard part is getting sales. You won’t get sales without visitors. You won’t get visitors without search engine (Google) placement. You wont’ get search engine placement without good, fresh content. You won’t be able to create good, fresh content without a Content Management System to manage it. Therefore a successful e-commerce needs good CMS integration. This is why we designed Ubercart to be fully integrated into Drupal. Not only does Ubercart gain good content from Drupal, but we also get all the great features, modules, and themes of Drupal.

Here are a few features Ubercart supports which Chase didn’t list:
Paypal & Google Checkout
Linkpoint API
Purchase with / without an account
Order / product import and export
Terms of service tool - (force accept)
Control redirection after adding product to cart
Newsletter Feature
Polls
Manufactures Block
Google Sitemap tool
A good rating and review system
Authorize.net integration
And many more.
For more information on Ubercart, go to http://www.ubercart.org

Peace
Andy

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