I’ve been using Romancart quite successfully for a client site with an HSBC payment gateway. But it’s now getting a little longwinded doing all the button coding, and the client can’t jump in and easily add new products themselves.
So I’m looking for a relatively simple catalogue/cart solution to allow the client to manage the shop themselves - I’ll just do some tweaking and CSS to make it fit the design.
Anyone got any recommendations for a reasonably simple catalogue/cart solution? I’m looking at Cube Cart and CS-Cart, but both look a little OTT in my opinion.
THey fit my websites perfectly. I have done several with ecwid. Easy for the client and myself - just a markup box.
J
On Dec 15, 2010, at 10:01 AM, hugh wrote:
I’ve been using Romancart quite successfully for a client site with an HSBC payment gateway. But it’s now getting a little longwinded doing all the button coding, and the client can’t jump in and easily add new products themselves.
So I’m looking for a relatively simple catalogue/cart solution to allow the client to manage the shop themselves - I’ll just do some tweaking and CSS to make it fit the design.
Anyone got any recommendations for a reasonably simple catalogue/cart solution? I’m looking at Cube Cart and CS-Cart, but both look a little OTT in my opinion.
It’s free, easy to customize with css and a very elegant admin area. They have quite an active users forum - just ignore all the whiners on there. I’m holding out for v1.5.
I am now trying ecwid thanks to swimmer35’s advice. SO far very simple to use and should be great for my online store! I really like that it is java and not an iframe.
In the end I adopted CS-Cart, and while it is a fairly steep curve to learn all its ins and outs, it wasn’t insurmountable. It’s proved very reliable and well featured, and support from the Russian authoring company has been surprisingly good…and in English!
Using something like this you either have to accept the somewhat cookie-cutter template styles for the shop, or you have to be a code guru with template building knowledge! We scraped by with a standard template and by switching off a lot of the unnecessary features.
I am now trying ecwid thanks to swimmer35’s advice. SO far very simple to use and should be great for my online store! I really like that it is java and not an iframe.
