Recommendations Please

[AfterDawn]

I love WHMCS so much I decided to come here for some recommendations. I have been working with SquirrelCart for a while now, but many of my customers are complaining that it just is not all it could be. There is very little reporting, no refund capability and the digital product capability is very hard for a non-programmer to understand. In fact a lot of the functions are like that. I don't have any trouble using them, but most of my customers like to manage their stores on their own and they are not programmers by a long shot.

Does anyone have favorite, end user friendly, shopping cart solutions that they would like to crow about? I would love to hear about them.

Thanks,
Dawn

[Troy]

We have some clients who make heavy use of digital downloadable product features, and have had good success with carts from http://www.cs-cart.com (commercial) and http://www.prestashop.com (open source).

[mojahed]

prestashop.com is what you and your customers are looking for

[moisesgl]

i would have to agree with this one, prestashop.com is a good option

[disgruntled]

oscommerce, make sure you modify the source for it to include one of the well supported templating systems found in the community addons.

This way you can knock up your own templates for it and sell them as addons. Just make sure you only install your own flavour of the source and not the distribution when creating the websites and all you will need to do is drop in the new template. just like whmcs

[disgruntled]

prestashop.com is what you and your customers are looking for

This is good, but its also extremely heavy on resources, If you sell this to your clients or are hosting it ensure that there is only one or two on a shared server. i would consider making it a VPS minimum offering. besides that your client will love how fast the site runs with its own dedicated resources.


Servers with limited resources will most likely run into memory allocation errors when trying to enter the modules area of the admin console, obviously thats a concern hence my suggestion.

[Nexxterra]

Opencart.com is free, has many free templates and modules. It is far easier to learn than prestashop, downloads (digital products) are a standard feature too.

[steveharman]

OpenCart all the way. Fantastic support community, code design is 'beautiful' if ever you needed to tweak it (all open source PHP, CSS & XHTML) structured as MVC.

From download to taking PayPal orders within 20 minutes for anyone, absolutely not a tech-heavy product...try that with Magento! ;-)

http://www.opencart.com

Steve