AuctionMan

Hi all,

My first post so here goes...

I have found that Oscommerce is by far one of the best supported shopping carts out there, you can 'do it yourself' and with a bit of learning you can acheive almost anything you wish or you can 'get it built' which allows someone else to do all the work and you just pay the build fees.

It has a fantatsic support forum and the depth of modifications that are already available and coded is great.

I have an article on my site that was written by managedweb.com that is pretty useful and contains some links to shopping carts out there. The links are not affiliatte ones, just thought they may be of some use to the thread...

Take a look Shopping Carts

HTH

Super Mod

I don't know too much about shopping carts having never used any of them. I've always built my own custom ordering system whenever I've needed one. I've heard good things, though, about most of the shopping carts mentioned in this thread.

Max

I have been looking at CubeCart. It looks great!

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Kyle

I've used X-Cart a couple times, but It can be a real pain in the ass to customize.

Tim

I havent heard of that one.
The thing with the smaller CMS's are that there is little outside support.
With the big names you get the customer forums to find help from.

Max

It's not exactly small, they have a fairly decent following and an active forum. I just installed the script and I'm testing it out to see if it's right for a client of mine, so far it's going great. It's much less complicated and less bloated than the others I have used.

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Tim

As long as there is a user forum, then thats great.
I like being able to read about other peoples experiences and problems before I purchase software and I tend to stay away from things that generate alot of complaints from customers.

Avix

The good thing about well known systems whether a shopping cart, forum or cms is that you can post on a forum asking for a custom designed & coded skin and tons of people will offer to do it cheaply.

Try asking the same question for something no ones heard of and it will be much more expensive and thats if you can even find anyone interested in doing it.

smacklan

My recommendation would be PHPAudit. They have a free trial and offer Ioncube and Zencube encoding. Also remote, local key and weightshift licensing with call home. The owned (unlimited licenses) is only $250 USD and the client side is fully customizable. Very strong product (I use it) and you can see more at www.phpaudit.com

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