Open Source ECommerce

John_Mc

Hi,

Sorry if this has been asked before, I ran a search but couldn't find anything.

Can anyone recommend a good ecommerce solution? Ideally, it would be open source but I'd be willing to pay if it was worth it.

I need an easy to use system with online payment processing through paypal. Nothing too complex or feature rich, the easier to modify & extend the better.

I've been looking at Magento and it looks good, but I've never heard of it (unlock OsCommerce).

Any advice or suggestions would be appreciate

drunkmonkey

I've tried a few.....zen cart is my favourite....

jooomla and virtuemart is another one.....tried it but I don't like it....found the site loading to slow and the whole thing a pain to use.....

go with zen.....there's some nice templates around for the latest version......

John_Mc

drunkmonkey wrote: »

I've tried a few.....zen cart is my favourite....

jooomla and virtuemart is another one.....tried it but I don't like it....found the site loading to slow and the whole thing a pain to use.....

go with zen.....there's some nice templates around for the latest version......

Nice one, will look into this. Thanks very much

EKRIUQ

I am patiently awaiting the launch of Cartage.Testing should start soon (Joomla with Zen cart as a component)

My advice is to stay away from VirtueMart.. Unless you are prepared to spend A lot of time experimenting things so they halfway work.

I will never do another Virtuemart cart (sadly I did ONE).. There's many reasons behind my decision.. However, the biggest of them remains the lack of good community support on the VirtueMart forums.

I also found it off putting that the VirtueMart team crucifes anyone who points this shortcoming out. The team and it's followers have repeatedly told me that this is how all open source projects are run.

I have also pointed out the zencart forum and other communities as an example of how wrong they are. VirtueMart is not even a good shopping cart solution.. It is in actuality the ONLY halfway functional e-commerce solution for Joomla which is the only thing IMO which is lending to it's proliferation and popularity amongst Joomla site owners..

So while I wait for Cartage, I have found a cool template contribution here which allows me to make my ZenCart LOOK like it's integrated with Joomla.. It's a cheat, but it's what I will do from now on until Cartage finally gets off the ground (presuming of course that Cartage is a good working solution).

I've used one template integration solution with, and I will be doing the same thing for any others

I have also used custom packages for an offline store which can be integrated with a server for a web based shop which will communnicate with the shop and internet sales and also controls stock levels and this is way above any open source project but the price reflects that. And needs to be determined if your project is worth this outlay

tomED

I would second ZenCart - looking forward to Cartage,pity its for joomla though!