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whats a good shopping cart with inventory, advanced shipping, sales and discount codes, etc. but will let me integrate it into my website. Because most the shopping carts like volusion and 3dcart only look like you can use their templates except i spent all my time making my website and i want to be able to integrate the shopping cart into it. The shopping cart i have now lets me do that and its free but it doesn't have any inventory or anything like that its very very basic.
Hi. One excellent fully featured shopping cart you could try is Cubecart. Couple of others in the public domain (free) are os commerce and zencart. Google them and check them out. Hope this helps you.
yea i was looking at cubecart and zen cart its just will i have to use a template cause i made a website and made it really unique and i want to keep it like that would i be able to change the template so that it would look like the site i have now cause a lot of people told me a have to use a template with the cart
Hi. All three of those shopping cart sites have active forums, where you'll find masses of information about using templates. Although it's been a while, I created my own template to use with Cubecart. Took a couple of hours to figure out how to do it and another couple of hours to ACTUALLY do it, but it came out ok. All three of those sites also have showcases where folks have their own sites on display. Check them out and see what you think.
An alternative to think about, is to incorporate PayPal or similar onto your existing pages. Lots of choices out there. All have their pros and cons, just a question of which you like best, I guess.
yea your right its just that i wanted something that keeps track of how many items you have and things like that maybe ill use cubecart if i can get the site to look something like the site i have now
thanks for the help by the way. :P
You can modify Cubecart and Zen Cart as much as you want to. I'm no coder so I paid somebody to modify Zen Cart for me. Just gave 'em the layout and said 'Make it look like this.'
yea haha cause i spent like 2 weeks figuring out codes and im really good now
and it would of been disapointing if i would of had to use a pre-made template haha
what a waste of time that would of been
do both of them have inventory which one would you prefer cause i can't choose
should i do cubecart cause you can upgrade to a non-free better version later
or is zen-cart really good where you would never have to upgrade
yea haha cause i spent like 2 weeks figuring out codes and im really good now
and it would of been disapointing if i would of had to use a pre-made template haha
I hear you. Zen Cart's default template is very ugly.
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do both of them have inventory which one would you prefer cause i can't choose
should i do cubecart cause you can upgrade to a non-free better version later
or is zen-cart really good where you would never have to upgrade
I can't vouch for Cube Cart because I've never used it, but Zen Cart has inventory and you can also upgrade to new versions for free. There are lots of free modules you can add and the user support on the forum is top notch.
yea i was looking at cubecart and zen cart its just will i have to use a template cause i made a website and made it really unique and i want to keep it like that would i be able to change the template so that it would look like the site i have now cause a lot of people told me a have to use a template with the cart
You can have your site fully customized just the way you designed it with cubecart.
wow that was very very helpful thanks a lot yea ok im gonna look at both because its hard to decide which one to get cause they both seem like very good carts
Hey, I've never really used ZenCart, but I did use CubeCart for a little bit.
I know PHP pretty well and was poking around in CubeCart's code. After looking around for a couple of hours I was really disappointed. Their code base is very confusing and unorganized. I didn't actually get to the integration part because I got turned off by their code. I also did some security scanning on the cart and found tons of security vulnerabilities with it.
After looking around some more I ended up settling with digishop. I was impressed with their code and was able to do some tweaks fairly fast and easy. The integration part was also pretty painless. This was a few years ago though, so I'm not sure how their integration works now, but I can't imagine it getting worse :P If you're still looking, give them a try. They have a demo up here: digiSHOP - Ecommerce Software
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I know PHP pretty well and was poking around in CubeCart's code. After looking around for a couple of hours I was really disappointed. Their code base is very confusing and unorganized. I didn't actually get to the integration part because I got turned off by their code. I also did some security scanning on the cart and found tons of security vulnerabilities with it.
When was this? Because all of their code has been through professional security audits and has been tested clean.
With any bit of software, you'll have to keep up with updates as the vendor patches them, same goes for zencart, oscommerce, or any PHP based software.
Cubecart is by far the easiest to customize and 99.9% of the people who use it to sell t-shirts will never need to mess with the "PHP code". All they want to do is get it up and running and looking completely customized. Which all can be done without looking at a single line of PHP code.
hmm yea i know i was trying to use zen cart cause i know html and css pretty well but zen cart is sooooo darn confusing cubecart seems wayyy more simple than zen
You can modify Cubecart and Zen Cart as much as you want to. I'm no coder so I paid somebody to modify Zen Cart for me. Just gave 'em the layout and said 'Make it look like this.'
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