Shopping Cart Software????

**AlexanderAZ** · Nov 15, 2005 18:15

Hi Guys, I am overwhelmed with all the shopping cart solutions out there. I thought I had one I liked but now I am not a huge fan. Here are some things I need, if anybody has any positive personal experience with any of solution that might help, please let me know.

Shipping- I need to create customized shipping options, canada through one carrier, us through another except for AK and Hawaii through a third,
i also need to set up special shipping promitions, example (buy a case of a product get free shipping) I need to be able to change the promition monthly or sometimes weekly

Authorize.net- I need to be able to easily integrate with authorize.net

customization - I might need customization in the future. for example a page with all products listed with qty drop downs so a use can quickly add multiple items a cart on one page.
or adding extra fields to an item description, will the company provide customizaiton, and if so, are there rates reasonable, and a quick turnaround.

template based- i need the cart to be template based so i can easily integrate it with my css/xhtml layout

any input would be great

**SantaRosaDesign** · Nov 15, 2005 21:29

Have you tried oscommerce?

**AlexanderAZ** · Nov 16, 2005 00:06

Originally Posted by SantaRosaDesign

Have you tried oscommerce?

I have heard mixed reviews about OS, I am looking at X-cart and Zen cart right now. I will let you guys know what I find out.

**nerocom** · Nov 16, 2005 22:51

So I've been using oscommerce for about a year on one site. I swear to god it is the hardest thing to template, and it's not very user friendly. It refuses to send out order e-mails, and half the time I wonder if it's even working. Out of 20,000 hits I've seen like 1 order.

Not used x-cart but it seems to be the better of the two. I think a big complaint with oscommerce is the lack of updates. I believe it's been like 2 years since they actually did anything to it.

I'm looking for something new as well. Oscommerce - ugg.

**conradical** · Nov 17, 2005 08:38

I've been toying with Zen Cart. The striking thing is the usability. It's not easy for the plain old, non-internet savvy browser to go through your store and make a purchase.

Secondly, it's not easy to customize your layout unless you know your way around that kind of stuff. Beautiful Admin section with a whole lot of features.

They just need to get their act together on the front end.

**johnsmith** · Nov 17, 2005 16:25

digishop would do some of that, but really fits the bill on scaleablity (future customizaitons) and support. The other solutions free offer no support and x-cart is out of russia.

**AlexanderAZ** · Nov 18, 2005 11:04

Originally Posted by johnsmith

digishop would do some of that, but really fits the bill on scaleablity (future customizaitons) and support. The other solutions free offer no support and x-cart is out of russia.

digishops custom development is a bit overpriced . Out of the box the shipping flexibility is not that great either, you can't designate zones, maybe in there new versions you can but the version i worked with did not offer this, and they only offer free upgrades to there newer versions for 30 days, other competitors offer this for a year or longer.