open source ecommerce platform
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2000 products with monthly updates should be easy for most packages... but the real question is how they're setup? For example, do you stock things like clothes, which come in sizes and colors, etc?
Do you have to deal with inventory changes both from a store and a website affecting each other? i.e. if you sell x in the store, you have to have it subtracted from web inventory?
Magento is supposed to be slow, a bit of a resource-hog... and somewhat difficult to work with outside of its original design assumptions, but quite nice looking if you stay within it's usual way of doing things. I haven't used it for anything except experimentation.
OScommerce I haven't used in a while, but it was straightforward, if not too slick-looking at the time I used it....
? Is it a low-volume boutique-like business? i.e. look/feel is most important, scalability maybe not so much.. or is it more likely to need speed and simplicity more than nice look/feel? Client buy-in is a major thing, as they will have to be more active participants than usual, writing product descriptions, entering inventory, and other less-glamorous things, unless you can hire some people to do that...