Shopping Carts, Which Do You Use?

Looking for easiest to integrate

[WolfLover]

I am looking for a shopping cart. Currently I have some sites hosted with ecommerce host providers and the shopping carts are built in so I did not have to do any of that.

However, now, I am building my own sites and want to integrate a shopping cart. I'm pretty good with html, etc. but not a programmer by any means.

I do not want to spend three arms and a leg to buy a shopping cart if at all possible.

I've seen some free shopping carts such as ZenCart, osCommerce, etc. Have you used these with success? Are they easy to integrate for a non-programmer?

What are the best paid for shopping cart software you've purchased, about how much did it cost, and can the one software package be used on multiple sites?

[shri]

Your choice might change depending on the product that you're selling.

A digital product will require different technology from a shop that sells guitars.

In of our cases, we sell individual items and then offer bundles (two or three complementary items) which requires extra work to keep inventory and pricing in sync.

Most off the shelf carts will land within 80-90% of your requirements.. then comes the question of scalability, custom code (some have code that is easy to modify .. some have nightmarish code).

Also, take into account what your skills are. PHP? ASP? Perl?

Rather than figure on using a horse carraige (sorry .. closest analogy I could come up to a "cart") figure where you want to go, what are the hurdles you'll encouter on that path and then choose the most appropriate vehicle for that journey.

[Essex_boy]

Take a look at Webgenie, covers options that many of teh bigger ones dont.

Failing that look at Actinic - depending on how easy you want it, from the point of setting upa site.

[bwnbwn]

wolflover it as well depends on how your site is hosted most carts have to have server side permissions set up as well as a secure server and you need access to the server. In your question this is not stated. can you clarify this as to how the site is hosted first.

[webtress]

I have tried a couple of the ones mentioned due to the request of the client but when the choice is mine ecommercetemplates covers the needs for my clients even if it is a downloadable product or they need to be able to accept credit cards on their own site for offline processing or want to use the new payment provider on the block google checkout. The design is changeable or you can do like I do and just integrate the shopping cart into your own design. You don't need to know code to use it and if you get stuck their support forum is pretty good, heck it's darn good.

[etechsupport]

Oscommerce is pretty nice if you are looking for free shopping cart, it has good developers community and best knowledge based support. You can also be able to make changes as per your need in some extent.

[mindanao]

I have been using OSCommerce for several years now, and am very happy with it. I have 15 different sites using OSC, and it's my first choice when it comes to shopping cart!