Shopping cart / ecommerce - doesn't have to be PHP
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Shopping cart / ecommerce - doesn't have to be PHP
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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Re: Shopping cart / ecommerce - doesn't have to be PHP
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.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?
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