Retail website/shopping cart software.

kernewek

Hi there.

Just wondering if anyone could recommend a decent shopping cart software package for the back end of a retail website. Needs to be something that will provide product reviews and stock management and decent CMS for the front end. Don't want to use sage pay as I have seen a few providers that only link in with sage pay. Price wise, well I am willing to pay out on something decent.

Many thanks

paddyrg

prestashop?

gazfocus

The best one I've used is called Magento and it's free.

kernewek

No point in paying for something if you can get it better for free. Excellent advice. Thank you. I will have a look at both of those.

oldoakey

I can highly recommend ekm powershop they charge just 19.99 per month inc hosting and you can choose from a range of templates or design your own.

There is a joining fee of about £80 but thats a one off charge. After that they just bill you monthly and there is no contract so you can easily get out if you want to.

I use it for my own web site and not having a computer background I found it fairly straight forward to set up and add products, pictures and prices etc.

freddielaker

Magento is great and open source.

king100

kernewek wrote: »

Hi there.

Just wondering if anyone could recommend a decent shopping cart software package for the back end of a retail website. Needs to be something that will provide product reviews and stock management and decent CMS for the front end. Don't want to use sage pay as I have seen a few providers that only link in with sage pay. Price wise, well I am willing to pay out on something decent.

Many thanks

Personally i spent ages looking at a shopping cart. Only one did what we wanted and that was

CSCart

I had a look at some free ones but honestly, you get what you pay for and your not paying anything.

jennikitten

Unless you have your own server you want to be careful about using Magento. It's very resource-hungry and web hosts tend to hate people using it in shared environments.

WLM21

Another one to try is https://www.mals-e.com/index.php

ukbill69

Always prestashop!!! FREE and the best out there, I would pay for it if they charged.

Gazing_On_Sunsets

I'm part time admin for an online shop that uses zen-cart. Free open source. When we did a redesign lately it was a pig to do, with templates all over the place, BUT for day to day management it does very well. The online documentation is a bit poor but answers to all questions are easily found in the forums. THere are companies which design/set it up for you, if you don't have time/impetus.