EROL Vs Actinc

[marklapsley]

Hi
I have been trying these two eCommerce software and was wondering if any body else had some thought before I buy one of them?

My self I have found EROL to be easy to design with and they have a greet support system

[cowboy71]

We have been using EROL For many years and find there package very easy to use would recommend it to any novice user

[Essex_boy]

Both are rather pricey and unflexiable in design (from what I can recall).

I don know that Actinic is spiderable as it generates HTML as well as a dynamic database, cant recall EROL doing this.

For my money Id go for webgenie, its cheaper than both of the above and the flexabilty and ease of use really has impressed me.

Or how about oscommerce?

I cant really understand why people pay so much money for one off licenses.

[elgumbo]

I have the misfortune of having to use EROL for one of my clients' sites. The developers seem obsessed with javascript to the extent that even a straight forward a href link turns into some knightmarish javscript function. It's almost as if they are daring the search engines not to spider them.

The only way EROL works is if you construct a whole site around it and then jump into the store for the purchasing. Tellingly, this is what EROL themselves do for there own website.

Simple options that initially look helpful in the store turn into a knightmare when you try an use them: Example, print out a store catalogue. Great. But print out another one and the products are ordered differently. Print out a third and it changes again.

Good luck on trying to keep up with the patches as well.

On the plus side (if there is one) the order processing is easy for a non-techie to master but I would hope this is the case for any e-commerce package.

Can't compare it to Actinic as I haven't used it but last time I checked the directory list of stores on EROL's site quite a few of their clients had changed to a diferent cart, Actinic being one of them.