You have misspelled the name of the 'Magento' Shoping Cart (opensource free). You wrote it as 'Magneto' :)
Sean P. Aune
· 1 year ago
One too many X-Men comic books in my past it would seem :P
Observer
· 1 year ago
You should not have omitted Volusion, which belongs in the first group. They have 5,000 merchants on their system.
Roy Rubin
· 1 year ago
Thanks for the mention and the screenshot guys!
Roy / Magento
James Borow
· 1 year ago
Hi Mashable,
I work for I-Supply.com, we have an e-commerce solution that allows websites to choose from over 2 million products, customize the look and feel, retain all of the traffic, add their own products and sell ads around the webstore for free. We deal with all of the shipping, customer service, fulfillment and returns and you (the website) deal with cashing your check. Our inventory comes from our flagship store, ShopBOOMj.com, and we already are being used by sites such as photo.net and tarot.com - I would love to explain more about I-Supply to mashable and hear your thoughts. We have a unique product and given the economic climate we think we are really onto something.
Thanks,
James Borow
mike young
· 1 year ago
We use 2checkout on our website. The rates are kinda steep but overall a decent experience with them.
Robert "Butch" Greenawalt
· 1 year ago
SORE SUBJECT
One of our affiliates used 2checkout.com and had great things to say about them to so we signed up with them and well let's just say it wasn't the most pleasureable experience. It is important for potential users to know. (at least I thought so) that 2checkout.com has very strict policies concerning what you can and cannot sell. For example our busness custom builds Pc's and we're recognized by Microsoft as OEM system builders but 2checkout.com says "We can't sell oem software" according to them. We also carry many cell phone products but again they have issues with "Unlocked Cell Phones". I'm sure they have their reasons but after they reviewed our site and reviewed our site and reviewed our site and sai d this has to go and that has to go and you can't have this and you can't have that with absolutely no sign of a compromise we had to pass. Be sure to ask FIRST for a list of what can and cannot be sold using 2checkout.com BEFORE you go through the process.
mike young
· 1 year ago
I forgot to add that we have an ecommerce WP site (athleticlab.com) that uses a third party theme called Market that actually handles all the product development and placement as well. It doesn't look all that fancy but it's super easy to setup and I've heard most people prefer it to e-commerce for WP.
David Handel
· 1 year ago
What options are there for building an online mall and providing individual web stores? Has anyone had experience with Amazon Flexible Payments system for splitting funds in a transaction?
Julie Riley
· 1 year ago
If I can tout my own software, open source OpenEdit (openedit.org) has a shopping cart module (number one commerce software on cmsmatrix.org.) included is hierarchical catalog, site search, html product descriptions, order processing, order tracking, automatic entry of previous shipping information, shipping and handling calculations, ect. OpenEdit is open source and built with JAVA
Jonathan Kong
· 1 year ago
Our experience with Zen Cart has been a good one. The support from the community and developers is strong. We had a couple of questions posted in the forum and they were answered very quickly and professionally.
Jonathan Kong
· 1 year ago
Another good hosted shopping cart is Shopify.com. I tried this one up and it's incredibly easy to setup and start running your own webstore right away.
Agi
· 1 year ago
you should add livecart to the Purchasable Self-Hosted Carts. It has alot of features and is fairly easy to skin. Im currently using it for one my sites that im building at the moment for a client.
Each category in a list gets a picture, chosen by me, of which ever one I thought had the most engaging image. At no time has anyone ever paid us to include a screenshot of their app or program in one of our lists.
Robert "Butch" Greenawalt
· 1 year ago
You tell em! One conspiracy movie too many sounds like.
Richly Chheuy
· 1 year ago
I'm going to shamelessly plug Mediachase's ASP.NET eCommerce Framework. If you're into .NET, you may want to take a look at the ECF. G5 just came out a few weeks ago and it's a major improvement over 4.1.
emiliano
· 1 year ago
Another good option for the Free Self-Hosted Cart is BakeSale (www.bakesalehq.com), based in the excelent php framework CakePHP.
Largo
· 1 year ago
Great overview. My personal favorites are zen-cart and virtuemart. Zen-cart because of it's great feature set, although the template system could be a lot better. Virtuemart because it integrates very good in a site that's more then just an e-shop.
Dan Milward
· 1 year ago
Hey Guys,
NIce to see WP e-Commerce in the list. Thanks for that.
Another hosted solution is GetShopped.Com which is built using WP e-Commerce + WordPress MU.
I don't think that Markettheme is good if you want to expand / grow your business. I told a client today that WP e-Commerce has been built based on years and years of retail / seller feedback wheras markettheme appears to based on how a designer (a very good designer) thinks e-commerce may work. Preferably (and I have tried communicating this with markettheme developers) I think that WP e-Commerce and the Markettheme should work together... infact I believe somebody might already be working on this. So watch this space ;)
Two other e-Commerce themes to watch are the e-Commerce Theme and the Crafty Cart theme. In my opinion these guys are doing it the right way...
Ciao,
Dan
A good
Disillusioned
· 1 year ago
I think the work Dan has put in to WP eCommerce makes it the onl y viable solution for a WordPress eCommerce site. Keep up the good work.
latest beauty secrets
· 1 year ago
I use shopcreator.com, which offers hosted solutions, ranging from pay per sale for a new business, to large retailer plans.
At the basic plan level, stores can be personalised, to the major retail option where stores can be customized.
Ella Argent
· 1 year ago
Nice list! I've used X-Cart, Magento and Interspire. Interspire wins HANDS DOWN. It wins on features, speed (Magento takes 70 queries to load just one page, X-Cart takes 30, Interspire takes 6), usability, customization and is private label for all you web designers out there.
Exactly Magento runs like a dog and you cannot host it on shared hosting - you need a VPS at min. to run it. How does that make it comparable to the other solutions posted here?
John
· 1 year ago
You are wrong. Magento works very well in a shared environment(I wouldn't recommend go daddy though) and performance is great.
I suggest you move off your $2/month hosting plan and get a real hosting provider before making such claims.
@Ella Argent - I have a Hello World! shopping cart - all it knows is to print 'Hello World!' - it has no queries. It beats Interspire!! ... What do queries have anything to do with selecting a product? By your criteria- go with a product that does nothing - good luck with that.
Ella Argent
· 6 months ago
Your reply doesn't even make sense. Magento has an ongoing reputation for running as slow as a dog, just check their forums. With Interspire v5 it's now just 4 queries for the home page PLUS they have a caching engine which absolutely anhilates Magento.
As they say, you get what you pay for. Magento is a slow old dog and Interspire is the Ferrari passing you by.
WordPress Themes Gallery
· 1 year ago
Thank you for sharing this list. I'm doing some experiment now with WP e-Commerce.
Dan Milward
· 1 year ago
Brilliant. Let me know how you get on... we are here to help :)
Garr!! My link above has not been fixed... it is so ugly. Shame on me :P
Ciao,
Dan
Mat Packer
· 1 year ago
Thanks for this write up, work's actually asked me to start looking at setting up an e-commerce section on our website, we use WordPress for the cms, so it's handy to see a few different options.
Going to give WP E-Commerce a go first.
Tao - buy board games canada
· 1 year ago
We're actually switching to Magento right now, huge amount of work but I must say, I love the features. We used to use / currently are using OSCommerce and the shift is amazing.
Tao
garryj99
· 1 year ago
I use EKM Powershop. reasonable rate, good support and excellent user community.
They have been around for quite a long time (94, 96) and definitely are at least worth a mention.
Simon 'CRM' Harper
· 1 year ago
These seem functional but not sure how far they integrate into the business. Would appreciate feedback on the definition.
We provide end to end solutions integrating accounting software directly with the shopping cart together with customer details & product levels. Namely this comes from the product Netsuite. As an example look at http://www.it247.com or http://shopping.schubachstore.com/
IDoBlogs
· 1 year ago
Quite an excellent list - I'm going to post a link since i get asked this so much! Cool post.
Adi
· 1 year ago
"BlinkCart" is not a novel, but a stolen idea from E-junkie.com, which has been around since 2004
TrueCloud
· 1 year ago
I love lists like this and respect the amount of time required to assemble - so thank you!
The point of my comment is that if your looking at this list and your company already has annual revenues near or in excess of $2 million, then you really should look at integrated systems vs. a point solution (in this case, a shopping cart). For example, your inventory should be connected to your ecommerce storefront, your online marketing efforts should be connected through your storefront all the way through to your accounting system, you should have reports that help you assess sell-through by SKU so that you don't miss opportunity, etc. To dodge the typical problems that plague companies as they make the jump from $2 million to $200 million, an integrated system is critical. Here's a quick interview with our CEO, a former Fortune 500 CIO for 35 years, on the power of an integrated system and its recent affordability due to the Software as a Service movement (SaaS):
If you are well-below the $2 million annual revenue mark, then this list is an extremely thorough representation of available shopping carts - good luck and chose wisely!
Dan Milward
· 1 year ago
I agree with that. We have only recently added SKU and we are currently talking to Xero and Quick Books about integration with their systems. The only problem with that is time - that said these new developments can only make WP e-Commerceeven more useful to even more site owners so we're happy to look at it :)
Tre
· 1 year ago
Wow SO many to choose from....I heard magento is really good....but whats the best one for WordPress!?
Magento is said to be resource hungry. In addition, there is a huge learning curve for the average php programmer so you do not have the strong support base out there as you do with products such as osCommerce (which is where the Magento people - Varien - first learnt about eCommerce - they used to develop osCommerce sites and some of their portfolio is still actually osCommerce not Magento although it does not say so).
Go with WP eCommerce for WordPress because even though Dan is saying it here himself I have watched its development and tested it out several times and I think built the first robust SSL enabled version of it quite a while back.
I am still an major fan of osCommerce. And you can also integrate osCommerce and WordPress pretty seamlessly.
Never go with a rent by the month solution - the power in open source is NOT that it is free but that you have the source and so you can then change it/add to it so you develop your own unqiue solution to support your own unique business model. And this is also why if you are not a programmer or do not have programmers in-house, you need to ensure a strong support base. You do not want to be single point sensitive as to who can support your website - ever.
Check out this truly search engine shopping cart - webShaper e-commerce by Neowave too. Clean and sleek business style interface. Can do sorting by just drag and drop.
Templates Master
· 1 year ago
Good post. It hard to believe that there are even much more shopping carts that were not covered in this list. But i agree with some comments that Magento is powerfull and deserve to have this large image.
Bob
· 1 year ago
Thanks for the list. I just came across SummerCart. It certainly has a nice user interface and seems fairly well featured for a new product. Has anyone had any experience with it?
ocelot
· 1 year ago
Check out xSellit eCommerce Storefronts at goxsellit.com. The company who developed this system have been software/web developers for over 17 years. Their monthly fees are lower than most hosted packages out there and you own the store! It is an all-in-one complete eCommerce storefront - all inclusive - with NO hidden monthly fees. They give you everything you need to sell online and are truly seo friendly.
I would not want to use WP for this, no way... I want a secure, robust system, I would develop my own from scratch to be honest, wordpress is a good blogging platform, not an e-shop system
Andrew Isiomah
· 1 year ago
Providing 35 different online shopping cart solutions were very informative and helpful.
Thanks for that info.
Visible.net
· 11 months ago
Don't forget about the new up-and-coming ecommerce shopping cart software by Visible.net that comes complete with built in marketing tools and advanced SEO features. Great roundup list, there are some gems in it.
Mike Young
· 11 months ago
For the past 6 weeks we've been using Foxycart to handle our shop integrated with our EE installation using a special module called FoxEE. It's been working quite well so far. It has some bugs but it's still in the early development cycle and the devs seem pretty good.
Marcin
· 8 months ago
Thank you for sharing this list. I'm doing some experiment now with VirtueMart Joomla.
Marcin
· 8 months ago
Thanks for the list. I'm doing some experiment now with VirtueMart Joomla. Joomlatemplates24.com
Glenn Friesen
· 8 months ago
Very useful list. I've heard some seriously mixed things on WP eCommerce, btw. eShop looks like a great alternative.
mp4 player
· 5 months ago
some good info
Mark
· 4 months ago
Thought I'd mention http://www.shopping-cart-reviews.com/ where there's over 200 shopping carts listed and detailed for comparison. Pretty comprehensive!
Shopping Cart Software
· 4 months ago
Thanks for the list do you have any examples of WP based shopping carts?
Andrew
· 4 months ago
Which one of these scripts has an option to checkout without needing to register with site? I can't find one with simple checkout.
This is really interesting take on the concept. I never thought of it that way. I came across this site recently which I think will be of great use http://www.ustronics.com . Have a look!
Satellite Phones
· 3 months ago
This is really interesting take on the concept. I never thought of it that way. I came across this site recently which I think will be of great use http://www.ustronics.com . Have a look!
Adam Martho
· 3 months ago
Another low-cost, hosted cart is www.MyMinto.com. Nice, simple interface.
alisonjuli23
· 2 months ago
Do you know what's involved in writing and marketing your own articles?... www.contentunltd.com
dphillips
· 2 months ago
Recent experience with low-cost and free solutions:
ZenCart: strong, stable, easy to get up and running on a low budget; but updates don't always keep up with php/MySQL patches. Clients prefer the administration area of ZenCart to OSC varieties.
OSC: our standard, is-as-it-is as an excellent base for both quick stores and custom higher-end sites; but watch the mods for on-going compatability. This is a normal OpenSource issue.
CRELoaded: Advanced Version of OSC (includes a number of supported plug-ins and mods). Well-documented and supported. Hosted versions are updated automatically but the company has changed hands and protocal in the past, and is in a growth mode, so we prefer the security of free-standing stores. Tech support has much-improved over the past 2 years...but cost of software has climbed accordingly. This is our preferred cart for advanced stores.
Squirrel Cart: It's been around a long time, and useful for quick stores that won't need a extended functionality later. Excellent customer support.
MyCart. Never again. We resold MyCart hosted stores for years. They undercut us without notice and went directly to our customers...with a fee per sale plan. This is a hosted cart with good end user functionality but unscrupulous, disloyal, business practices.
XSilva: Hosted solution requires Mac to manage product inventory and orders. Encoded site files make editing difficult without a full rebuild of template. Free-standing hosting version recently offered but with major bugs and difficult server requirements. It's a new store, and shows great promise where integrated POS is needed, but not ready for full time production at this point.
dphillips
· 2 months ago
PS Virtuemart: can be difficult with custom Joomla templates...requires advanced understanding of Joom template and menu structure.
Shopsite is the most stable hosted solution we use but tech support is difficult for end users. They are, however, readily available to top end resellers and very helpful. Extensive documentation. This is a very stable store, which has required very little updating. Especially for long-term larger sites.
Miva and Mercantec - steer clear.
Accrisoft, moderately happy with this hosted solution. It's actually a fair mess to work with unless you spend the time training and organizing.
We ran into PayPal integration issues during their changeover with all stores except Shopsite, which is a hosted store we resell.
Thanks for all the feedback on other stores! We're looking forward to checking some of them out.
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Roy / Magento
I work for I-Supply.com, we have an e-commerce solution that allows websites to choose from over 2 million products, customize the look and feel, retain all of the traffic, add their own products and sell ads around the webstore for free. We deal with all of the shipping, customer service, fulfillment and returns and you (the website) deal with cashing your check. Our inventory comes from our flagship store, ShopBOOMj.com, and we already are being used by sites such as photo.net and tarot.com - I would love to explain more about I-Supply to mashable and hear your thoughts. We have a unique product and given the economic climate we think we are really onto something.
Thanks,
James Borow
One of our affiliates used 2checkout.com and had great things to say about them to so we signed up with them and well let's just say it wasn't the most pleasureable experience. It is important for potential users to know.
(at least I thought so) that 2checkout.com has very strict policies concerning what you can and cannot sell.
For example our busness custom builds Pc's and we're recognized by Microsoft as OEM system builders but 2checkout.com says "We can't sell oem software" according to them. We also carry many cell phone products but again they have issues with "Unlocked Cell Phones". I'm sure they have their reasons but after they reviewed our site and reviewed our site and reviewed our site and sai d this has to go and that has to go and you can't have this and you can't have that with absolutely no sign of a compromise we had to pass.
Be sure to ask FIRST for a list of what can and cannot be sold using 2checkout.com BEFORE you go through the process.
http://livecart.com/
NIce to see WP e-Commerce in the list. Thanks for that.
Another hosted solution is GetShopped.Com which is built using WP e-Commerce + WordPress MU.
I don't think that Markettheme is good if you want to expand / grow your business. I told a client today that WP e-Commerce has been built based on years and years of retail / seller feedback wheras markettheme appears to based on how a designer (a very good designer) thinks e-commerce may work. Preferably (and I have tried communicating this with markettheme developers) I think that WP e-Commerce and the Markettheme should work together... infact I believe somebody might already be working on this. So watch this space ;)
Two other e-Commerce themes to watch are the e-Commerce Theme and the Crafty Cart theme. In my opinion these guys are doing it the right way...
Ciao,
Dan
A good
At the basic plan level, stores can be personalised, to the major retail option where stores can be customized.
V4 just came out with a ton of new features too. Woot! http://www.interspire.com/shoppingcart/
I suggest you move off your $2/month hosting plan and get a real hosting provider before making such claims.
@Ella Argent - I have a Hello World! shopping cart - all it knows is to print 'Hello World!' - it has no queries. It beats Interspire!! ... What do queries have anything to do with selecting a product? By your criteria- go with a product that does nothing - good luck with that.
As they say, you get what you pay for. Magento is a slow old dog and Interspire is the Ferrari passing you by.
Garr!! My link above has not been fixed... it is so ugly. Shame on me :P
Ciao,
Dan
Going to give WP E-Commerce a go first.
Tao
* CandyPress aka ShoppingTree (www.candypress.com) (under $100)
* AbleCommerce (www.ablecommerce.com) ($995)
* ProductCart (www.earlyimpact.com) ($695)
They have been around for quite a long time (94, 96) and definitely are at least worth a mention.
Would appreciate feedback on the definition.
We provide end to end solutions integrating accounting software directly with the shopping cart together with customer details & product levels. Namely this comes from the product Netsuite. As an example look at http://www.it247.com or http://shopping.schubachstore.com/
The point of my comment is that if your looking at this list and your company already has annual revenues near or in excess of $2 million, then you really should look at integrated systems vs. a point solution (in this case, a shopping cart). For example, your inventory should be connected to your ecommerce storefront, your online marketing efforts should be connected through your storefront all the way through to your accounting system, you should have reports that help you assess sell-through by SKU so that you don't miss opportunity, etc. To dodge the typical problems that plague companies as they make the jump from $2 million to $200 million, an integrated system is critical. Here's a quick interview with our CEO, a former Fortune 500 CIO for 35 years, on the power of an integrated system and its recent affordability due to the Software as a Service movement (SaaS):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPSvOULzdQY
If you are well-below the $2 million annual revenue mark, then this list is an extremely thorough representation of available shopping carts - good luck and chose wisely!
Tre
President
http://www.truckmountforums.com/forums
Go with WP eCommerce for WordPress because even though Dan is saying it here himself I have watched its development and tested it out several times and I think built the first robust SSL enabled version of it quite a while back.
I am still an major fan of osCommerce. And you can also integrate osCommerce and WordPress pretty seamlessly.
Never go with a rent by the month solution - the power in open source is NOT that it is free but that you have the source and so you can then change it/add to it so you develop your own unqiue solution to support your own unique business model. And this is also why if you are not a programmer or do not have programmers in-house, you need to ensure a strong support base. You do not want to be single point sensitive as to who can support your website - ever.
Thanks for that info.
Joomlatemplates24.com
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www.contentunltd.com
ZenCart: strong, stable, easy to get up and running on a low budget; but updates don't always keep up with php/MySQL patches. Clients prefer the administration area of ZenCart to OSC varieties.
OSC: our standard, is-as-it-is as an excellent base for both quick stores and custom higher-end sites; but watch the mods for on-going compatability. This is a normal OpenSource issue.
CRELoaded: Advanced Version of OSC (includes a number of supported plug-ins and mods). Well-documented and supported. Hosted versions are updated automatically but the company has changed hands and protocal in the past, and is in a growth mode, so we prefer the security of free-standing stores. Tech support has much-improved over the past 2 years...but cost of software has climbed accordingly. This is our preferred cart for advanced stores.
Squirrel Cart: It's been around a long time, and useful for quick stores that won't need a extended functionality later. Excellent customer support.
MyCart. Never again. We resold MyCart hosted stores for years. They undercut us without notice and went directly to our customers...with a fee per sale plan. This is a hosted cart with good end user functionality but unscrupulous, disloyal, business practices.
XSilva: Hosted solution requires Mac to manage product inventory and orders. Encoded site files make editing difficult without a full rebuild of template. Free-standing hosting version recently offered but with major bugs and difficult server requirements. It's a new store, and shows great promise where integrated POS is needed, but not ready for full time production at this point.
Shopsite is the most stable hosted solution we use but tech support is difficult for end users. They are, however, readily available to top end resellers and very helpful. Extensive documentation. This is a very stable store, which has required very little updating. Especially for long-term larger sites.
Miva and Mercantec - steer clear.
Accrisoft, moderately happy with this hosted solution. It's actually a fair mess to work with unless you spend the time training and organizing.
We ran into PayPal integration issues during their changeover with all stores except Shopsite, which is a hosted store we resell.
Thanks for all the feedback on other stores! We're looking forward to checking some of them out.