Ecommerce software
 

Okay, so I did a google search for Ecommerce software, and realized there is a buttload of them.

So do any of you guys use or have a favorite? looking for php based easy to use, maybe even open source to keep cost down.

After vBulletin the most exciting program to use for me is oSCommerce...
Lots of mods=contributions and lots of possibilities ;)

cool that what I was looking for something similar to vbulletin's install base and active user/mod base. I'll check it out

Thanks!

There's an integration for vBulletin & oSCommerce here in vB.org but they don't share Users' dB [which I believe is good] but they have a big supporting community

cool.. I'm having problems getting osCommerce to even run. I've been posting on their site, but not much help yet.

What kind?

can't log into my admin page, it just keeps reloading the logon page over and over. :( there are other people having the same issue, but noone seems to know the answer.

oscommerce is complete garbage. spend the money for x-cart. it's worth the investment.

well the support I've received, or haven't received for that matter, is starting to convince me that maybe I should purchase something...

x-cart. its a lot less expensive than Miva, and its highly scalable. I've bridged x-cart and vbulletin a few times already.

Hi, I use Zen Cart. It's open source and the support community is good. I had os commerce and switch because Zen seems to keep up better with changes for shipping.

Check it out.

R.

Well oSCommerce has alot of fuctions, once YOU LEARN you CAN'T COMPLAINT :rolleyes:

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Well you don't need to be a 'Financial Genius' to see that costs for operating with a GPL/Free Scripts are recommended for start-ups
Think...

vBulletin License = 160 usd +
Skin for vB = 50 usd [a decent one]
X- Cart License = 229 usd
Hosting = 100 usd [yearly approximate]
Worked Hours = Uff
Stock for the Store ???

So for a start-up is not recommendable to spend that much ;)

I totally agree. If you have a webmaster in mind or you need help with osCommerce feel free to PM me.

I'm a network administrator. The site will be hosted on my own server, the products i'm selling are quite profitable, they do very well on e-bay. I currently have a storefront, and it does well also, but it's a PITA to update and maintain because it's a bunch of basic html pages that I created in dreamweaver. I'm getting tired of fireing up dreamweaver everytime I want to make a little change and then having to update all the pages and re-upload the site. Just too many steps involved for something that could be so simple.

That being said.. I'm a network admin, not a webpage developer so a lot of this stuff isn't my forte' I rely heavily on install documentation and other users expierence. That's where oScommerce falls short, maybe just for my situation however. I run in a Windows 2003 server environment, IIS6, PHP5, mySql5, I also have direct access to my server I don't use FTP to transfer files. For the most part this makes things easier. But I appear to be in the extreme minority most people are using professional hosting services using apache, so alot of the instructions in most open source php/mysql programs are based on that fact. When you start asking questions about how to do something in a windows environment everyone draws a blank. if you're on osCommerce's support forums you'll notice I have 3~4 threads going right now with not much support being offered. my name is AtomicVette on there.

anyway. long story short. if you have any suggestions for my problem I'd appriciate any help.

well I've installed a store in less than an hour, don't pay too much time to decide 'isn't business'
What kind of products?

Well I just installed ZenCart it took a whole 30 minutes, including the time to download the zip file haha. :) Their installation instructions were great! They even covered how to install on IIS and in a Windows server! That's something, most php based software treat us Microsoft people like the redheaded stepchild :) haha. It's even hard to get answeres from v-bulletin reguarding that.. thanks for the suggestions guys

your Welcome

haha.. No I mean it's hard to get answeres about installing vbulletin on IIS. It took me a while to get all the kinks worked out when I did my first vbulletin install a couple years ago. And this is paid software :) I appriciate all the suggestions I've gotten here, I didn't even know where to start.