Posts Tagged ‘ecommerce’

Save the Planet : Shop Online High gas prices got you down?  Take advantage of high gas prices and shop online.  With gas hitting record highs, the economy slowing down and everyone pinching pennies, it's time to position your online store to take advantage of high gas prices. Full story

Magento Shopping Cart - Part 1 After first discovering Magento a few weeks ago, I was really looking forward to spending some time exploring this shopping cart. When I finally had enough time to really look into the cart, I was excited by what I saw. Very clean layouts and a nice user interface, I couldn't wait to get down and dirty. Full story

In this series, I will try and broach some of the pros and cons of various shopping cart and various ecommerce solutions. Part 2: ASPDotNetStoreFront. If you're looking for the ZenCart guide, check here. ASPDotNetStorefront is a lot to type out, so hereafter, I will refer to it as ASPDNSF, which is easier to type. ASPDNSF is another great shopping cart. This cart is used by some big names and it's used by them for a reason - the cart is great. Out of the box, this cart excels. It has the basics you would expect from an online shopping cart: payment gateways, shipping gateways and so much more. Image handling with ASPDNSF is really good and by far, the best out-of-the-box image management I've used. But all these features come at a price, which is currently $1295 for the 'good' version. If you want the source, which you will, add an additional $995. Want updates, that will cost another $299. Total price for the store, the source and 1 year of updates: $2,589.00 - yep. Wait, don't make up your mind just yet, even though that seems like a lot of money, it's not a bad deal when you consider what you're getting. Full story

When you're ready for an online shopping cart, there are a lot of questions you need to ask yourself. What cart will work best for my situation? What about Visa's PABP and PCI compliance? Credit card gateways, PHP, ASP, custom carts or out of the box; which one do I need? Should you host your shopping cart or do you want to have your cart hosted? Perpetual license or a one time fee? And that's just the beginning. In this series, I will try and broach some of the pros and cons of various shopping cart and various ecommerce solutions. We will begin with ZenCart. Zen Cart is a really nice online shopping cart. Out of the box, it works. It's basic, but it does work. There's a beauty to its simplicity, thus Zen. Out of the box, you get basic image handling, easy to use and create templates and built in credit card processing gateways. You also have the ability to add a lot of features that would cost thousands extra for most pay shopping carts, but with Zen Cart, most every extension and contribution that add functionality to your cart are free. $0 is a very attractive price for a piece of such powerful software, but there's a cost. ZenCart management is not for the faint of heart. ZenCart requires a fairly high level of knowledge to really have a good shopping cart. Full story

After a lot of work,  another site is up and running. Built on ASP.net this site can do it all. Since this was my first forray into non open source software, I was a bit worried, but the features were nothing short of amazing. After much struggle with my open source mindset, I dove into uncharted waters. Full story