Shopping cart script
 

What is the best shopping cart script? I am looking for one that doesn't make the store look like 1999.

Toni

There is really only one option if you are looking for open source and that is the excellent http://www.magentocommerce.com/ then we have zen-cart and oscommerce but those are a not really all that good.

This looks very interesting, thank you very much.

I recommend OSCommerce. It's quite good, free, and there's tons of add-ons and plugins for it, although for the most part you wont need them.

I recommend OSCommerce. also thats good

http://www.interspire.com/ not cheap bit worth every single penny i have 2 stores using this script

My personal choice as well. :thumbsup

most scripts are template based, so just base it on your design

Very good script, too bad it's not multi-lingual :disgust

Looks interesting

osCommerce is like telling people TM3 is the best new trading script.

You need Magento. We have been working shopping carts for 12 years, last 17 months all about Magento. Been a rough ride, but any webmaster with more than 10 sales/day, good accounting and multiple websites, needs something real, like Magento. Not for nothing there's a commercial version for almost 10k/year too.

We built a couple last few months:
www.espressoshop.nl
www.ds-stunter.nl
www.scheermesjes.be

All Dutch though. We have many more, but these are pretty much what it is about.

If you need a bunch of features I run cs-cart
it incorporates smarty which is pretty easy to learn to make mods

My cs-cart site:
http://backissues.gatefold.com/

Plus it has a pretty active forum:

http://www.cs-cart.com/

Nice reply, how good is the free version of Magento for the start/testing? Are your sites using the free version or the paid version.


Your stores are very nice! How are they doing for you?

Bump to oscommerce - a store ready in 30 minutes :D

One of the stores is doing over 80 sales/day, it can handle an unlimited amount I'm sure though.

These are all the free versions, with several (paid) extensions. I'm guessing a little over 1200$ in extensions (ajax cart, image zoom, ajaxsearch and some others, also the backend has most paid extensions for order export, se export etc..).

You would never have to use the paid version if you know how to run things yourself, or know somebody who can. Also, the paid version has big warehouse features we do not want to use.

If you know what you want, you can always mail me for a quote in helping you get setup. I don't work for getafreelancer fees though, my time is precious;-)

Sounds good, thank you

clickcartpro is pretty good

interspire is nice, but cscart is pretty much just as good, yet way Cheaper
I say for the quality and price cs cart is def the way to go.
:)

I have a store using clickcartpro aswell and i find the admin area a mess and harder to add products compared to interspire