Recommendations for large shopping cart?

for hundreds of thousands of books

[wintercornuk]

My current provider is "playing up" and I want to move to another cart which has easy upload capabilities from a csv file and can be managed by a relative novice such as myself. I've looked at lots so far, but does anyone have a specific recommendations?

Sticky me if required.

Thanks.

[carlwright]

If you're talking about hundreds of thousands of products I would be inclined to build the cart and backend systems yourself.

[Ian_Cowley]

I would not build it yourself - why reinvent the wheel and spend hundreds of thousands yourself? The Interchange shopping cart system will support infinate amounts of products / categories. It just means you need a powerful DB. I know that Interchange will run with Oracle.

[Ian_Cowley]

You can also upload via a CSV file - but with hundreds of thousands of items the file would be huge.

[wintercornuk]

I'd rather not build it myself. If I could do that, I'd me making a living as an IT consultant, not bookseller.

The catalogue file is currently around 11mb with 30,500 different titles. I'm looking into OSC, but a bit bedazzled by the SQL stuff.

[derekwong28]

You can try x-cart or litecommerce and ask the support team to upload the csv file for you.

[wintercornuk]

litecommerce looks good. that and osc so far.

thanks for all your help and suggestions.

[badtzmaru]

To me, Yahoo Stores seems to have a lot of bang for the buck. If I didn't have a server with a customized Interchange installation, a yahoo store would probably be my next choice.

[forstan]

try searchfit.com shopping cart, they definately support import from CSV

I know of a friend of mine and he imported into searchfit his 30,000 products store

good luck,
forstan

[danieljean]

It might be worth mentionning advanced book exchange, which has a service precisely for your industry... there are probably others too.

In any case, a large CSV file shouldn't be a problem, and hundreds of thousands of records should even fit in OSC, although getting someone to set up interchange might be a smarter move (better back-end DB and much better features).