[geeks] Shopping Cart software

[Phil Stracchino]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 10:24:44PM -0500, doctor obnox son of a bitch wrote:
> Brian Dunbar spoke in riddles, like the night...
> 
> > I'm looking at shopping cart software.  The business in question 
> > produces handmade soap, candles, jewelry and assorted doo-dads.
> > 
> > Any products stand out as 'best of'?  What's out there that should be 
> > avoided at all costs?
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  TalentSoft Web+Shop falls into the latter
>   category.  Good thing you've never heard of it.

Neither have I.

My first thought was, "Considered OpenCart?"  (I believe at least one of
the major online retailers uses, or used to use, OpenCart, but I don't
know offhand which one.  I think it was either Amazon or Yahoo.)

Looking for information on OpenCart, I found the following comparison of
shopping cart systems:

http://www.cgiextremes.com/Scripts/Shopping_Carts/

The highest-rated free shopping cart system on this list is Perlshop 4,
with a 9.00 score on the basis of 2 votes.  (However, the top scorer has
a perfect 10.00 based on one vote but is apparently still in beta;
personally I consider the reliability of any site that awards a perfect
score to an unfinished product to be suspect.)

The highest-rated free cart system on the list with a non-trivial number
of votes is Red Hat Interchange (rating 8.31, 10 votes) followed by
RediCart (8.2, 5 votes) and DCShop99 (8.02, 13 votes).  Links to all of
these are provided.  Check it out and see if one of them fits your
needs.


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