eCommerce Shopping Cart Comparison Chart
January 30, 2009
There is no better time to start online shop than now, whether you are thinking of starting an online shop from scratch,adding shopping cart facility to an existing website or just researching available ecommerce solutions.
The economic climate is quite gloomy for high street retailers but online traders large and small continue to see significant rise in sale, its time to take a serious look at ecommerce if you have not already done so.
The table below brings you brief information on some of the well know shopping basket software on the market today.
Virtuemart |
CubeCart | osCommerce | Zen Cart | |
| Details | Free open-source shopping cart. It works as a stand alone but its at it own when combined with Joomla. | Free and paid options, robust and tested. | One of the most popular if not the most popular free shopping cart | A fork of osCommerce project.It has some features it parent does not like downloadable goods. |
| Advantages | Quite simple to install, may need to install Joomla to get the full benefit of some functions | Cube Cart is easy to install, support is said to be efficient. | - Easy to install, some hosting company bundle it with their control panel software. | Support is easy to access, quite nifty. |
| Disadvantages | * May have to trawl the web to find support.
Prone to Joomla’s shortcomings. |
Product review module still in development. | Does not support downloadable good, support can be difficult to access. | Can be made to be more user friendly. Said to be resource intensive. |
| Use it for: |
A basic online shop. | Small shop, supports unlimited products. | Robust and reliable, has been around for some time. | Small online store. |
There are many other shopping cart software apart from the above, perhaps in due course reviews of other shopping cart will be posted. One particular shopping cart to be mentioned at this juncture is Boss Cart, it is one of the fastest growing ecommerce shopping cart software , it support unlinited products for merchants that sell products. For online traders who sell items such as MP3, PDF files and other digital gooes, there is a module that caters for this too.
