Personally, ZENcart has been the best solution I've found and it will do
all you are asking below. Modules and upgrades are free the software is
free and you can host it on your own server. I am hosting a sample of
it at 209.90.77.126 and /admin to login to the backend. UN admin PW zenmin.
Art Pollard wrote:
I'm in need of some shopping cart software for a little (well not
quite so little) project.
I would like to find "the best" solution without spending tons of
$$$. I don't mind it being hosted by someone else -- though I have my
own server so I'd need a way to link to it somehow. If I can host it
on our Linux server, that is fine too.
A few of the things I would really like are:
* Easy customization of HTML / colors / custom graphics / etc.
* Good UI for users.
* Affiliates program
* Inventory Control
* Ability to notify multiple people in the advent of order
* Usual billing stuff.
* Ability to have more than one "catalog" -- this way I can have a
second password protected catalog for wholesale orders.
* Strong shipping options.
* I'm not going to have 100's of products so it need not be db driven.
* etc.
I found one called ShopSite that looks very robust but it looks like
it is pretty expensive though apparently, there are some hosted
solutions (isps) that use it. Does anyone have any recommendations
for shopping cart software? Any resources to find a good one?
Advise? Things to stay away from?
Oh, and what is the project? Well, my "little side project" is that I
will be opening sometime this summer a chocolate factory in Orem -- we
will be making a high quality (European style) chocolate all the way
from the cocoa bean. We will be importing our own beans from Central
America and other locations to turn into chocolate. I've spent the
last year importing vintage chocolate manufacturing machinery and
hopefully, sometime in the next few months, we will be up and
running. It's quite different than cranking code all day and gives me
a good change in pace.
Thanks,
-Art
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