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Written by Susan Johnson January 24, 2006
Hi LED'ers
This is the first time that I have ever posted here (at least that I can recall) -- normally I just lurk and learn. I love the lively discussions, and normally always take away something interesting.
Our company has recently been offered the opportunity for the development of a new comparison shopping site that would serve local markets within Europe. The customer's site will be country specific and available in at least 3 languages. They are beginning with one country only, hoping to expand the site to other EU countries.
We are currently in the planning, research and budgeting stage. At this moment we are trying to make a decision regarding shopping cart systems. I have sifted through the myriad of information -- my gosh there are a lot of systems available!! We need something that is search engine friendly, low-budget, pretty much ready-to-go right out of the box. (I am afraid that initially at least I will be doing quite a bit of the work on this part and I am no programmer!)
Anyway, after spending many hours on-line, I am considering GoECart Shopping Mall. Has anyone here ever used their system? It seems to tick all of the boxes -- or at least most of them. I would be extremely grateful for any comments about this system, or open to suggestions of other systems that might fit the bill. We are using the Miva system but that is for a different customer and I think it would require a little too much tweaking to make it work in this instance -- I still don't know what a UI is or how that works with a GUI -- don't have the time to fuss with buying add-on modules and setting them up.
Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.
Susan Johnson
Written by Reg Charie January 25, 2006
Hi Susan,
Have you looked at the CRELoaded system?
It is search engine friendly. Meta Tag fields are given for all
products and product descriptions. One of my sites built with it has
listings in Google for every product. It is multi language, multi
currency with an option to auto update currency conversion rates.
CRELoaded is open source, so it meets your low budget requirements as
it is free. It has a huge following which means a very active support
group.
As to "ready to go out of the box" you can take a look around our working admin demo for CRELoaded. Login: This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it
Password: admin
Feel free to contact me if you would like to discuss the cart system.
Thank You,
Reg Charie
dotcom-productions.com
Written by Paul Harris January 25, 2006
"... I am considering GoECart Shopping Mall. Has anyone here ever used their system?" - Susan Johnson
I hadn't heard of GoECart Shopping Mall so had a quick look - Its functionality is similar to the Ecart system. I use EROL - The main difference is that it's a one-off price so no monthly bills.
Paul Harris
bivvyman.co.uk
Written by Jennifer ThomasJanuary 26, 2006
Check out seoshoppingcarts.com. It has reviews of shopping carts that are considered to be search engine friendly. They have a good review of GoECart.
Best,
Jennifer Thomas
Written by Rebecca Neilson January 26, 2006
The key to any shopping cart is if it
will work for the customers product and if it will grow with the
customers website. There are a lot of free shopping carts out there but
you are limited by what they offer.
I am
currently using MIVA merchant. It is not free, but is what my current
ISP had available. I finally got them to upgrade a few years ago as
they needed to. I am looking at buying the software myself so I can
take the program anywhere. The main reason is because of the upgrades.
Initially the program seems pricey $900. But the current program at
that base price allows me to list the wide variety of products I sell.
I have historical clothing and supplies for making the clothing from
buttons, to snaps to leather etc. Items are sold from a single piece to
fractional as in 1/2 foot of leather etc. Miva merchant can handle that.
You
can also set price levels based on volume or if a customer is retail or
wholesale. There are synchronization modules that allow transfer of
data from sale directly into Quickbooks for processing of orders and
updating of bookkeeping. They have a variety of design modules for
changing the look and feel of your website. They allow you to add as
many or as few modules as needed to create custom websites. They even
have different levels of support that you can purchase or none at all.
So far I have done all of my work on my shopping cart myself using the
base modules that come with the base program. They have written the
manuals so that most people can create a shopping cart with relative
ease.
First see if the shopping carts have a demo
that you can try and play with before you commit yourself. I have
checked around with a number of free shopping carts and tried demos
that are available and nothing compares to Miva Merchant so far. Free
may sound great but if it won't grow with your client or customer base,
it may cost more in the long run if you have to redo it later on and
try to transfer all of your work to another shopping cart.
Rebecca Neilson
H. L. Supply
Written by Gerald Njuguna January 26, 2006 Why not have a look at ecommercetemplates.com. It has everything that you might require and more. You get to buy the shopping cart software and design, choose the template you like, make the database connection, plug in your products and start selling. It can create search engine friendly URLs and intergrates with more than 9 payment processors. Very little programming is required to use it.
Hope this helps
Gerald Njuguna
Africa Point
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