 Re: ECommerce Software?
In my opinion if you want good software you need to be willing to pay for it.
I tried all of these open source software systems and my suggestion is to try them yourself then do a comparison with Viart and you will see what I mean. One real negative with open source is that hackers will know how these systems work.
Things to test for is ease of use via admin, ability to edit the templates and the ability to remove modules via admin rather than hacking the code or adjusting a template. Other stuff to look out for is the ability to adjust discounts and shipping and the ability to incorporate UPS that would auto calculate the shipping cost per product. There is no comparison with Viart and this is after I had spent 20 plus hours testing and playing with different systems.
Avactis Shopping Cart includes an Australia Post module for Aus customers using the system.
The advantage with Viart is you can use a product code to search for an item or you can use normal text word for searching search. I am using this software on a website that has over 9000 items and you should see how fast teh search feature is.
One open source shopping cart that may become the most popular within 12-24 months may be I think Magento which one cool feature it has is that you can run 10 websites with 10 carts installed but they all run off the one system on checkout time.
Hope this helps.
Joe |