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Old 03-17-2008, 09:00 PM
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Default Shopping Carts : Cube Cart, Zen Cart, OS Commerce

Just thought this would be good topic to get some rants and raves by folks out there.

What is your favorite shopping cart software and why.

Or let us know what you don't like about a specific shopping cart.

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Old 03-31-2008, 11:04 AM
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Haven't used any shopping cart, but which one of the three would you recommend? and why? My friend is using quick shopping cart from Godaddy and it's OK, just that you don't have much choice of customizing the design. I prefer to try to create my own so that I can customize it, whenever I get to learning how to create one.
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Old 03-31-2008, 12:06 PM
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Its hard to not be a fan of oscommerce because there is so many mods and info about it out there since it has been open source for some time now.

I have used cube cart and it has some great features that are not part of oscommerce and geared towards larger catalogs and user bases.

Both are very customizable as far as looks go so either would suite you for that purpose.

I have no experience with zen cart and was hopping for some input here, but haven't found a whole lot yet...
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Old 03-31-2008, 12:24 PM
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Zen cart is equivalent to Oscommerce, has probably as many mods, and a strong base. I tend to like VIP Cart because its search engine friendly and spiders every page. Its one of the ones that we promote but its limited on gateways, although it does take authorize.net. I like Oscommerce because it integrates with payjunctions gateway which is another one we promote, but aside from that I like it cause it handles things like recurring billing, and you have the option of buy buttons or the cart. If you only use paypal one is about as good as the other, but I am usually working with folks who want to take credit cards, so to me, it boils down to what gateways. Oscommerce is the most flexible when it comes to gateways, and that is very important. Even if you think you'll never take credit cards, you just don't know when you'll want to expand, and Oscommerce has the flexibility for all of them without any additional programming, which can get expensive and is time consuming when trying to get the api to integrate if you don't have the knowledge yourself. You might as well take a free shopping cart with all the mods and the most flexibility.
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Old 04-01-2008, 08:10 PM
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Thanks for the info CSSadmin!

The payment gateway is a big thing to most, if you can't get paid, the shopping cart doesn't do a whole lotta good huh...LOL
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