Comments on: Ending The E-Commerce Nightmare: StoreSuite

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:38:55 +0000

Interspire and Omnistar’s carts are the same but their prices vary greatly. Strange.

http://www.interspire.com/shoppingcart/

http://www.omnistarcart.com/demo2.htm

Magento WILL in my humble opinion be the best free OS solution out there once they add downloadable products in version 1.2 (sometime very soon according to them).

Chris

By: John

John — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:34:38 +0000

I second Magento – seems to be leading the pack. It has some advanced features that none of the other products come close to.

http://www.magentocommerce.com

By: Scott Wilson

Scott Wilson — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:56:51 +0000

Responding to Mike: pricing has not yet been announced on this product, so we’ll have to wait and see. They’re trying to get ready for a beta in December, so we’ll certainly know by or before then.

Scott

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:25:22 +0000

How much does this software cost? Is it competitively price?

By: Click Input

Click Input — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 05:39:28 +0000

That example certainly looks very professional

By: Blogs for Money

Blogs for Money — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:44:04 +0000

Looks like an interesting store – I’ve been playing with a few recently to see how the compare. I’ll see if I can get on the beta program

By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:49:21 +0000

I use http://www.omnistarcart.com It is from a company called Omnistar Etools which has tons of great software http://www.omnistaretools.com

By: Jez

Jez — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:00:06 +0000

http://forums.oscommerce.com/

By: Jez

Jez — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:57:14 +0000

Affordable …. SAP ….. now Im confused

By: Jez

Jez — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:55:12 +0000

I have been using virtureMart, a Joomla! / Mambo plugin. The advantage with that is you can add content, forums and other community building components. The other OS apps you mention can only do e-commerce, nothing else. Currently stuck with tables but that will change in the near future….

There is also a new OS app currently in beta

http://www.magentocommerce.com/demo

It is not as well featured as other apps and the demo is very unstable at the moment, but it looks pretty and is one to keep an eye on IMO.

By: David Culpepper

David Culpepper — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:50:08 +0000

Our store uses X-Cart but it took a lot custom coding to get it to work like we wanted… customizing the look is also a pain until you get used to the smarty templates.

By: Israel

Israel — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:24:08 +0000

a buddy of mine is using oscommerce and is freaking out. he just doesnt know how to work it. i tell him to google around and see if he can find some help. guess its user error?

By: Chris Guthrie

Chris Guthrie — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:53:18 +0000

That’s pretty sweet that it’s template driven so it’s easy to alter the look instead of having to manually go into the files to edit things (kinda like how it is with vBulletin). I’ll check it out if I find the need for a shopping cart solution.

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:45:01 +0000

The big-money game right now is in ecommerce solutions that integrate into major accounting packages (QB, SAP, MS Nav). People are screaming for solid integrated solutions that are affordable. Especially with CRM B2B functionality.

By: Mitchell Harper

Mitchell Harper — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:44:45 +0000

Hi Gary,
Couldn’t agree more. I’ve started a few online stores, one of which got to $300,000/month in revenue, so I know exactly what an eCommerce application needs to be usable, and that’s exactly what I’m building with StoreSuite.

By: Blogging Tips

Blogging Tips — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:15:10 +0000

i thought about a store for a while, but never got into it

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:52:43 +0000

The front end in the screenshot looks a lot like the admin panel in WordPress. I really like that.

I haven’t used any eCommerce packages, but when it comes to scripts I usually give first consideration to the ones that come with cPanel.

By: Rhys

Rhys — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:11:04 +0000

I have used both Zen Cart and Actinic. Actinic is VERY easy to customise once you get the hang of it. The only problem is that is’ a couple of hundred pounds.

Zen is free, and has a lot of support. Out the box it’s not brilliant, but the amount of customisations you can achieve with the software makes it worth the while.

By: April

April — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:25:24 +0000

I use Cubecart, it’s OK as long as either you are into code or get someone to do it all for you. What is anoying is that in order to make it any good you have to buy mods, this can end up costing a small fortune and is a bit of a shock when you start out thinking it’s free.

By: Sucker

Sucker — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:11:18 +0000

I heard that CubeCart was pretty good, ever try that?

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:59:53 +0000

Just too many ecommerce software out there, if I really have to pay for an ecommerce software, I choose java ecommerce server and open source rather then proprietary service. Anyway, just my personal preference.

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:11:20 +0000

osCommerce is actually very easy to customise – it just takes an understanding that the code is from 1999, hence think in terms of tables rather than divs

Zen Cart was fatally flawed from the very beginning by relying on the osCommerce codebase. osCommerce might yet prove to be the best about – have you seen the new features of the latest point release?

The problem with MOST carts is that they are coded up by geeks. These geeks have no real world knowledge of e-commerce. What it takes to make a successful site is the following;

~ a geeky coded script
~ the store owner
~ a middle-man who knows his onions about design, usability, SEO, accessibility and all the rest of it. This person takes the “geek features” and makes them usable for “Mr Store Owner”.

The origins of my own blog date back to the dark days of osCommerce – heck, my first ever blog was on the official osCommerce site

I shall have to take a look at Store Suite. Might make a good possibility for future clients.