Shopping cart / ecommerce - doesn't have to be PHP

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Shopping cart / ecommerce - doesn't have to be PHP

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Since DevnetStore is still quite a ways off, and I've had enough of Miva Merchant (my company's ecommerce solution of choice), I'm wondering what your experiences are with ANY ecommerce solution. Are there any of you who build ecommerce sites regularly and have found a certain piece of software that just works well? I haven't and it's really irritating. I haven't used any of the PHP-based carts too extensively, but from what I have done with them combined with the complaints around here about them, I am reluctant to really use any of them for clients.
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I keep hearing about Zen Cart, so I'm giving that a try right now. But I'm also curious to hear what others have tried.
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The Ninja Space Goat wrote:Are there any of you who build ecommerce sites regularly and have found a certain piece of software that just works well?
It really depends on your clients. If you are doing simple stuff and your clients just want a solution and are willing to conform to a cart system, then something like Zen Cart will be fine. You just need to learn the ins and outs of it. However if your clients want custom ecommerce solutions to match their business processes then building your own components (product/category pages, cart, checkout, order processing and administration) is pretty easy and will give a lot you more flexibility.
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I used Monster Cart before (asp) which is quite feature rich. When I say used, I do mean used. Not install/modify.
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I just got one called x-cart. It's ok.

Invision Power Services is either developing one or has one. I didn't read into it.
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I've always used the paypal API - it's good enough for simple stuff... and it's a payment gateway to boot.
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Post by Luke »

we don't have the time or resources to develop something like that right now, unfortunately. Right now it makes sense to use an out-of-the-box solution which can be easily modified... so I guess there really aren't any more options. bummer. :(
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