Shopping Cart Alternative

[ecomnewbie]

For about a year now one of my clients has been using the go daddy quick shopping cart. Which I hate because it allows no control over the code except for the look. So what I am asking is... Are there better alternatives out there?

An off the shelf product that has a good reputation?

Or another shopping cart hosted alternative?

Any help in this area would be greatly appreciated as I am still an e-commerce newbie.

[HighConversions]

I've heard good things about oscommerce and xcart. You could also pursue a custom solution.

It really depends on your budget and what you need to do.

[rm82]

There are a lot of shopping cart solutions. Sometimes it is very difficult to choose between them.

There are two major groups - Freeware and Paid.
Freeware solutions is free (OsCommerce, ZenCart, ...) and have a lot of add-on modules but there are no any support and programming quality of such solutions suffers greatly. Nevertheless it is good point to start.

Paid solutions require some budget to start but it have a lot of advantages. Programming quality is acceptable, at least.

Actually, OSC is most known solution but its code and template system is real headache. Personally I would recommend X-cart or LiteCommerce. But there are a lot of such solutions.

[ecomnewbie]

Thanks RM82 and HighConversions for your feedback.

Budget isn't a problem so a paid solution would work. Do you know of any good paid shopping cart systems that will let you get into the code and add tracking code like Analytics. That was a major drawback of are last system.

Along with the fact that the shopping cart rejected your whole order if you made a mistake and didn't just point out which field was wrong we decided it was time for a change.

Do you know of any paid systems that won't reject your whole order if you make an input mistake?

Thanks.

[simonuk]

I use X-cart and like it. Just make sure you don't upload your photos into the DB because it slows waaaaay down :) Link to the photos instead.

The support system is excellent as well. top marks from me.

[ecomnewbie]

Thanks for the information simonuk and rm82. I'll look into xcart.