Bendude14 Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 Can people please share some experiences with shopping cart software they have used in the past. I don't have time to test them all so I am planning on just taking recommendations from here. It can be free or proprietary but it must have the feature to allow me to switch the "Cart" section off, so it simply looks like a catalog or products. Not sure if that is native to any shopping cart but maybe there is temp plugin i could use to disable prices / checkout etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felixtgomezjr Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 use magento. its good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webmaster1 Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 Never used oscommerce but it's been recommended to me. Make sure you understand what a merchants account before choosing. Here a useful articles to help you decide: http://webtecker.com/2008/04/22/8-best-open-source-shopping-cart-solutions/ The bottom of this article links to an explanation of merchants accounts: http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles2/shopping-carts.htm Taking the time to read these will save you a fair bit of hassle. Nothing worse than getting half way through a project and realising you should have done it another way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darksystem Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 have a try on these shopping carts oscommerce,creloaded,zencart, xcart, cubecart, virtuemart, magento, prestashop, batavi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyrer Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 Simple and free is PrestaShop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sKunKbad Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 If you don't need a cart, and just a catalog to display items, it's really not hard to create this yourself, especially if a CMS for product management isn't needed. The hardest part of making your own would just be to create the database table(s) for the products. I've been working on my own shopping cart system lately, Community Cart, and I'm at the point now where I want to make a more elaborate products controller. I've used osCommerce, and Zen-Cart, and I think the problem with those is that you have to spend a lot of time to customize the product display. That's why I'm suggesting creating your own. If you are going to have to spend a lot of time to make something nice, it might as well be your own code. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyrer Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 For simple catalog use Drupal with CCK and Joomla with K2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tranceflux Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 Well said! If you don't need a cart, and just a catalog to display items, it's really not hard to create this yourself, especially if a CMS for product management isn't needed. The hardest part of making your own would just be to create the database table(s) for the products. I've been working on my own shopping cart system lately, Community Cart, and I'm at the point now where I want to make a more elaborate products controller. I've used osCommerce, and Zen-Cart, and I think the problem with those is that you have to spend a lot of time to customize the product display. That's why I'm suggesting creating your own. If you are going to have to spend a lot of time to make something nice, it might as well be your own code. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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