Monster Commerce Anyone?

[soggybrain]

Hi

I wonder if anybody have use Monster Commerce service lately, especially their shopping cart. I would like to find out what you think of it?

[twtnyc]

i had one for almost 3 years and moved my store to os commerce 8 months ago.

they dont give you enough control over your server, and they're not search engine friendly - had almost no pages indexed except the garbage pages their 'seo specialists' made me for a stupid amount of money...once you start learning things you realize what a rip-off they are...and how expensive

within two weeks of having my os commerce store with the seo url module installed...BAM all may pages were indexed toute suite.

don't do it.

[soggybrain]

Hmm. Their website tesimonials and case studies looks very compelling n appealing. One I dont understand from your msg, didnt you have control on your web pages so that you could do on page SEO yourself?

We are on OScommerce as well at the moment, however the IT people that we outsource said they unable to even insert Google analytics UTM to pick up the values of the ecommerce. How do you pick you value for your ecommerce at the moment?

[gabidi]

We are on OScommerce as well at the moment, however the IT people that we outsource said they unable to even insert Google analytics UTM to pick up the values of the ecommerce.

Not true.

There's a ready made contribution, that's VERY easy to install available on the Oscommerce website, that works just fine. I've been using it for the past year with no probs.

[soggybrain]

Gabidi, THanks for the note

here is what the outsource IT developer ( our designer as well ) have to say

"One of the reasons being is that the specific details for both the
products and order cannot be accessed programmatically where you
requested. The structure of the modules (UTM) that need to be re-written were designed in a way that cannot be modified to the extent that you require. (I just want UTM to be inserted and pick up the ecommerce value ie sales value, order id etc)

I apologize for the inconvenience, but this is one of the downsides of
using a low cost 3rd party shopping cart system. (they are referring to OScommerce)"

In the end, they said it cannot be done. Please help.

[gabidi]

Just sticky mailed you the links you need .

They seem like they're trying to confuse you into agreeing lol with all that technical stuff they're throwing .

It's really quite easy to do :)

[BananaFish]

I ran into their offerings years ago. All I can remember is that coming to the conclusion that "Monster Commerce" is neither.

[jsinger]

It was bought in late 2005 by Network Solutions, reason enough to pass on it.

[soggybrain]

jsinger,

what do you actually mean? I dont quite get it.

[jsinger]

what do you actually mean? I dont quite get it.

During the 90s, the Almighty Network Solutions was infamous for poor customer service when they held a monopoly on domain registrations. To get somewhat fast telephone customer service, I eventually figured out that phoning them after midnight on a weekend was best.

Once I mistakenly ordered a product and, within minutes, asked for a refund. Network Solutions told me "they didn't give refunds on anything." (eventually I reached a vice president who agreed to give me the money back). Took hours to get a $30 or so refund.

As for Monster Commerce, I considered it very seriously several years ago and even phoned the company. That was before MC sold to NetSol. Their cart had search engine deficiencies with its dynamically generated pages that nixed the product for me.

[soggybrain]

Jsinger, thanks.

Does anyone know how to shop for a reliable web developer who will not try to suck more money of you?

[jsinger]

Most of the people connected with Shopsite are top drawer. But sucking more money is what the world is about.

Best to learn all you can. Much of this is hard to delegate. WebmasterWorld is certainly a great place to start.