Demaestro - 6:11 pm on Apr 7, 2008 (gmt 0)

Of all the E-commerce sites I have set up over the years never once have I used a canned shopping cart, nor have ever spend more then 20 development hours on one... and in that case it had cool features like reporting on abandoned carts and other goodness.

$85-$135 is the range a lot of developers charge for something like that.

I don't know why a bigger company with on-staff developers would use something pre-built. If you are using a canned cart that gets customized you will most likely spend more time figuring it all out and making your changes then it would to build one from scratch.

$300 a square foot to renovate
$150 a square foot to built brand new