Good Shopping Cart?

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I'm jumping into the ecommerce gig for a business I'm starting. Does anyone have recommendations for a good SSL Shopping cart that uses PHP?

Ideally, they'd handle the credit card processing too and dump the money from my merchant account into my bank account on a daily basis.

No affiliate bonanza please.

Josh
 


There are tons of options out there. It partially depends on how much you want to budget for the cart.

osCommerce, Open Source Online Shop E-Commerce Solutions - Free, but lacks some quality IMO - I have a site running on it right now and there are some weird quirks and workarounds for things that should be basic.

Zen Cart Support, :: Supporting the Art of E-commerce - Heard alot of good things about this from friends, but no first hand experience

Shopping Cart Software & Ecommerce Solutions: X-Cart. Free shopping cart trial available. - Used this for a site last year - for some reason the templating system really pissed me off...just didn't seem logical, but otherwise it was pretty cool.

Shopping Cart Software by MonsterCommerce - Ecommerce Solutions - Used it in the past and they were great, but it can get a little pricey compared to other options.

The big thing you want to look at is which features you want:

Do you need to ship internationally and how do you want shipping to be calculated?

Are you going to use coupon codes?

Do you want the cart to have clean URLs for SEO (without session ids especially)?

Do you have a merchant account (authorize.net, paypal, etc.) or do you expect the cart provider to give you a merchant account (this limits the options alot)?

Will the products you are selling have multiple attributes (for example: color and size choices)?

If I think of anymore major questions to ask yourself, I'll post them...my brain is fried right now :)
 
Brian,

In your experience, are there any carts that can do reduced prices for multiple items? For instance to encourage more item purchases, if the customer buys 1 item of any type (let's say CD's as an example) it's $30, 2 items it's $50, 3 items and it's $60.

Thanks
 
Dekalog6 to answer your question you can do this through a contribution in OSCommerce the link is here Quantity Price Breaks.


I really prefer Zen Cart though for the couple of ecommerce sites that I have. Zen Cart is essentially OSCommerce with the great contributions already included in the default install including the price breaks option. And I think the user community and contribution community better supports the product vs. OSCommerce.
 
Yeah - for OSCommerce, the Quantity Price Breaks contribution would fit what you are looking for. I installed it on this site - SakéOne — America's Most Honored Saké  (Japanese Rice Wine) - and it was a pain in the ass, but it works. What I found annoying about it was that it doesn't show the discount until you get to the checkout pages. IMO, if you need that feature, use Zen Cart instead of OSCommerce.
 
If you don't mind spending $5 or $10 a month try e-junkie.com. uses paypal, google checkout, or can be set up for credit card merchants.

It's super slick
 
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