Zen Cart?
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- boobs
Is this program any good?
If you have experience using Zen Cart for setting up an eCommerce site, please comment on your level of satisfaction in implementing and using it?
thanks,
- FallowDeer0
The first time I used it was a nightmare, as you have to get used to what file control what area of the site and what css class changes the colour of what box.
took a while but got the job done, I think there might be better options?
- vaxorcist0
Magento.... more beautiful, I've heard it's slow with lots of users.
I'd love to hear anyone's actual experience with Magento.
- jobhall0
I just met with the Magento guys the other day and they were absolutely great. I had heard some complaints about the speed of their system but that will depend on the size of your catalog and the servers you run on. For Magento, it is recommended to have one web server and one operational server.
- adev0
I just went through a month of trying all out the various free options out there... Magento, Zen Cart, OS Commerce, CRE Loaded (yeah those 3 are the same), Cube Cart 3 and 4, Mal's, and a few others.
After testing them all out, Zen Cart was the winner. Once you learn how it's set up, it's not too bad to modify the look. I basically ripped out all the features because I want to use it as a simple cart only.
Magento is slooooooooooooooow. My friend who I host with said it should be fine on his fast servers. Nope, it was just slow loading the Administration and navigating sections, almost like I was on dialup.
CRE Loaded was nice, but without paying for it you're got ads everywhere telling you to upgrade, and they call you wanting to sell more services.
OSCommerce, a proven solution, but ZenCart's modifications were better.
Cube Cart was nice but it lacked a feature or two I was looking for, and it has the annoying feature where it e-mails people when they start the checkout process, then when they complete it. It's a common complaint.
Mal's e-commerce is nice if you want something hosted, but I wanted a well integrated solution.
I still wish there was just a simple cart solution, not a full blow e-commerce store/backend/etc. However, Zen-Cart gets my vote for the time being.
None of them are "easy" to work with :(
- uberdesigner0
blows
- airey0
blows bad.
- acescence0
no experience with zen, though i'm curious. did a shop in magento and never again... even on dedicated hardware it's too slow. just running locally on my mac with just me hitting it it absolutely crawls. and the way they made their checkout page, the presentation is so hopelessly jumbled within the code so as to make it extremely fragile if you try to change anything. all of the javascript that makes the cart work is so easy to just totally break. ok, done venting on magento, whoo.
- acescence0
if you need something super simple, the wp-e-commerce plugin for wordpress is pretty good. it's nothing spectacular, but if you're at all familiar with wordpress it is super easy to mod and extend.
- Nightshade0
I've never used Zen Cart. But have used CubeCart. It's pretty basic out of the box, but there a quite a few mods out there for it to extend capabilities. I find it quite quick to build shops with, the templates are easy to edit.
Magento- wasted a day on trying to template it today. Never again.
- airey0
foxy cart is awesome also.
- airey0
foxy cart is awesome also.
- quamb0
no experience with zen cart... but Trading Eye is tops, especially if you want to customise the layout a lot via CSS. costs $$ though.
- PunchDouble0
yeah i'm currently looking at the options for wordpress (integration)
its quite a hell going through all these things
- Akiraprise0
zen cart's brilliant, not the most user-friendly admin, but very powerful and customizable once learnt :) www.podgers.gg
- effour0
i use x-cart...costs a lil for the license, but there are alot of ready to go modules you can buy
here is a site using x-cart i built:
- oohtruck0
zen is a mess. magento is probably the best but like everyone else says, its slow and templating is a bitch.