What is the easier way to develop an online shopping website?

[Ik]

Hi,

I want to develop a test website that sells both, digital and non-digital products. Creating a CMS to manage products, catalogs, etc... is easy, but the tough part to me is the actual buying process.

I thought of some open source products that helps me to do that. I reviewed a lot like DV Cart, openCart, etc...

But I want you to advise me on the best approach and the best product I should use.

Payments will be through PayPal.

Thanks

 

[CrazyTech]

Personally speaking, I'd go with one of the many alternatives out there before I'd custom-code something. It sounds like your requirements are pretty basic, so I don't anticipate you having much of an issue with pre-existing open source software (or even a paid solution). Which brings me to the question, are you looking to go open source or paid?

 

[weker]

I'd go with something already developed like magento or oscommerce, instead of wasting time developing another shoppin cart software.

 

[Ik]

Thanks for the feedback guys. I don't mind a paid solution within my budget, but I prefer open source.

One more important thing for me, is to be able to customize the look and feel of my websites if I go for a 3rd party solution.

Would you recommend a solution for me? Thanks

 

[AlanSolutions]

We have solution....

Hi,
We have complete solution for your requirement. Contact us to get your website done with CMS.
[email protected]

 

[Janine]

There goes AlanSolutions, lol.

Here are some of the best open source shopping carts:
PrestaShop Free Open-Source e-Commerce Software for Web 2.0
OpenCart - Open Source Shopping Cart
Magento - Home - eCommerce Software for Growth
CubeCart - Free & Commercial Online Shopping Cart Solutions
AgoraCart Shopping Cart
ecommerce shopping cart software by Zen Cart ecommerce solution
osCommerce, Open Source Online Shop E-Commerce Solutions
StoreSprite shopping cart software, ecommerce solutions: sell online, selling, e-commerce

 

[Ik]

Hi,
We have complete solution for your requirement. Contact us to get your website done with CMS.
[email protected]

I'm a learning developer. Thanks

---------- Post added at 10:11 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:10 PM ----------

There goes AlanSolutions, lol.

Here are some of the best open source shopping carts:
PrestaShop Free Open-Source e-Commerce Software for Web 2.0
OpenCart - Open Source Shopping Cart
Magento - Home - eCommerce Software for Growth
CubeCart - Free & Commercial Online Shopping Cart Solutions
AgoraCart Shopping Cart
ecommerce shopping cart software by Zen Cart ecommerce solution
osCommerce, Open Source Online Shop E-Commerce Solutions
StoreSprite shopping cart software, ecommerce solutions: sell online, selling, e-commerce

Thanks.

I just installed Zen Cart; it seems great.

I'm trying to see if I can use my own template with it

 

[djdeth]

Zen Cart hasn't been updated since December 2007. It is not user friendly in the backend either. I recommend against that BIG time. You can use your own template with it. I have done it before.

 

[Ik]

Zen Cart hasn't been updated since December 2007. It is not user friendly in the backend either. I recommend against that BIG time. You can use your own template with it. I have done it before.

Thanks for the information

 

[DerManoMann]

using zencart

True zen cart has not been updated for a long time. If you like it and don't want to wait for the overdue next version, you might want to have a look at ZenMagick (ZenMagick - Zen Cart the easy way).
ZenMagick is a replacement for the zen cart storefront. It's object oriented, MVC based and has a much cleaner and simpler templating structure.

mano

 

[SeanPreston]

Oscommerce is not a bad choice either, fair enough its not the best but with a good theme it's not that bad!

 

[Ik]

Thanks for the great info guys.

I think I'm going to write my own modules; non of them is really satisfying my needs. They are also complicated when it comes to digital downloads.

Now, I'm looking for a good payment gateway other than paypal. It has to:

1- allow customers to pay DIRECTLY by credit card, or by paypal
2- provide good withdrawal options to the site/shop owner as the site owner doesn't have a merchant account.

I thought of 2checkout.com, but I think it requires you to add each unique product manually, so that means the site owner will have to enter the product details twice, once at the site admin and once at 2CO, which is not acceptable!

Any suggestions.

 

[createrk]

Prestashop is becoming a great shopping cart. The backend features are awesome and it gives more flexibility.


The only problem is non availabilty of good themes for it.

 

[Ik]

Thank you guys.

I have tried the Wordpress e-commerce plugin; it seems the best among all the open source solutions, at least to me easy to use, and works for both digital and non-digital products.