Posts Tagged ‘shopping cart review’

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

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