Looking for reviews/your opinions on these two carts

[patrick24601]

Good morning all,

I am currently running xcart for an ecommerce site. But I am considering moving to AspDotNetStoreFront.

I am looking for any information from anybody that has moved from one to other and what they likes/disliked about each one.

Thanks,
Patrick

[Peter Cornstalk]

I like the way AspDotNetStoreFront's administration is laid out and I just about went with them, except they wouldn't take on any customized web development directly and referred me to some 3rd party developers listed on their site. The #1 3rd party developer listed seemed very un-interesed in doing my work although I laid it out in details in a spreadsheet, then he would not get back to me. They made good on their money back policy.

I looked at X-Cart but was not interested in proceedural programming and lines and lines of functions. But if it has all the features you need, it probably doesn't matter.

I went with softslate commerce for the MVC architecture and OOP that makes it customizable in all the right ways.

[patrick24601]

Thanks Peter. Xcart is working ok - performace is terrible at times even though I have moved to a dedicated server. I am being given various ways to optimize the card - which involves digging into the 'lines and lines of procedural code' or paying to have somebody do it for me. So I have the initial outlay and then the money for optimization.

[Peter Cornstalk]

Wow I think I would be looking at something different then if you are dedicated and having performance problems.

How much traffic do you get and how many simultaneous users are on the average?

[patrick24601]

Looking at something different than what .. xcart? I am :-)

I don't really have the numbers you are asking for. I do know that as me as the admin searches take a long time. We also use it as our POS system when people call.

Ironically: The server that xcart was running on last night locked up tighter than a drum. Had to be rebooted. :(

Thanks
P