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Does anyone know of any good e-commerce package that includes everything one needs to run an e-store? Help please!!!
Hello. I believe the answers are right here but might take a wee while to trudge through.
Off the top of my head - from what I've been reading around here, there are a few - namely Zencart, CubeCart, Bigcartel, and I hear even Wordpress has an e-commerce solution now. Check them out and see which one suits you best. Good luck!
If I could have zencarts back end, along with a few choice mods, along with wordpress's seo, blogging, and customer reviews power, and the dependent attributes mod from cubecart all wrapped up in one nice package for free with no copyrights, I would be really happy!
But other than that, your question is vague, what are YOU looking for? Every shopping cart has everything you "need", not always everything you "want" though.
Does anyone know of any good e-commerce package that includes everything one needs to run an e-store? Help please!!!
Sorry, there's no "best" package that would fit "everyone's" needs, since everyone's needs are different.
What you need to do is research and figure out exactly what "your" needs are and then find the hosting and software thats your specific needs.
Some people may just need hosting and good software that they can customize with dreamweaver, some people may want to pay more for a point and click solution.
But if you read through the forums and search for ecommerce and shopping cart info, you'll find LOTS of recommendations for all types of different situations.
Thanks for the great info. I will check them out. I am looking for a place where I pay a monthly price and they care of everything - you see I am not very computer savy, but I want to have my own t-shirt store online. I have read the process that one of the member has put on the forum about the steps to do your own web and store, but it all seems like a foreign language to me. I thought about going w/ yahoo but not sure after everything I've read. Do any of the ones listed above offer the whole package including the cart, ssl, webdesign, etc. Again, I am not good w/ the terminology. Thanks again for all your help.
What do you mean Rodney? Don't cubecart and zencart need you to have a SSL certificate installed with your webhost in order to accept cc's? Even paypals website payments pro requires an ssl to process cards not on their pages. Mal's eccomerce hosts the checkout page on their secure servers. Am I missing something?
What do you mean Rodney? Don't cubecart and zencart need you to have a SSL certificate installed with your webhost in order to accept cc's? Even paypals website payments pro requires an ssl to process cards not on their pages. Mal's eccomerce hosts the checkout page on their secure servers. Am I missing something?
Not if you are just using PayPal as the only payment method your shopping cart accepts.
You just integrate the shopping cart into your site and use PayPal to process the payments.
Once you learn the admin side everything is intuitive. However, if you struggle with say, even basic HTML, maybe not the cart for you - which is OKAY. When I say I use Volusion, I should clarify that statement to mean the business pays the bills and the employees do the work, I'm one of the employees.
Beyond my recommendation, like stated above, do your research and know ahead of time the functionality you require.
If anything, choose wisely the system you go for, it can be difficult and costly to move to a new platform down the road.
Don't get yourself in a situation where you are operating as a sub-domain on another site - such as yoursite.anycart.com. Doing this means you lose SE rankings when you do move over to your own domain name.
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