Whats your favourite ecommerce solution?

[streetsicecream]

there are alot of shoppingcarts on the market these days, and i would like to know what you guys use.

[thersey]

I’ve always liked the style of the Home Depot site. Very modern, and organized. Their search feature could be improved, but I like the modern style and find it very inspiring.

[tedane]

i prefer amazons, it makes things easy and understandable

[SusanMart]

I would definitele recommend ZenCart or Virtuemart. These are best carts for me)

[drose]

Nexternal, Magento and the works
I have spent a considerable amount of time looking into ecommerce solutions. I should write a white paper. Some findings:

I found only a handful of solutions that could fit my needs. Most of that handful were well over $xxx, and into high $xxxx per month. Magento falls in the higher range. Nexternal is the only one I have found so far that fits my needs while staying in the low $xxx range per month.

open source does not fit my needs, I need robust tech support, and all the features below.

Here is my NEEDS list:

1. Integrate with GreatPlains/Dynamics
2. Able to calculate accurate UPS shipping rates (dimensional weight). We find that sending a basket that is light in weight but large in size can be expensive unless the dimensions are taken into consideration in the shipping cost.
3. Able to restrict shipping methods or dates for certain products. We have chocolate products that CANNOT be shipped ground between May and October. Currently we can select a shipping selection that takes these products from default (all shipping choices) to restricted (all shipping choices EXCEPT ground: ALL chocolates - no ground - 2 day only shipping June through September)
4. Multiple shipping addresses for one order (various products to various locations- single order checkout). We would like to set up multiple shipping so that a client can select 5 gift baskets, and ship each of the five baskets to a DIFFERENT address in one order, with a separate message for each.
5. Customer ability to add gift messages (single and multiple orders)
6. Export/Import for tracking numbers
7. Reports; sales by product/category, sales comparisons by year. Ability to see what products are leading in sales, by store, or category, by month or year for example.
8. Multiple product editing. can I update several random products at once; example- select add at one time all chocolate covered almond products to a sale page, then easily remove after sale has expired, without doing it manually one product at a time. Is there a control panel that would do this, or an easily updated upload system?
9. Multiple coupons and coupon tracking. Can we have multiple coupons going at the same time, and view via reports separate sales results for the coupons?
10. FTP access?
11. Free tech support, phone and email, 24/7

Bonuses:
multiple images, wishlist

I would like to hear about other solutions.

Best, DR

[Chargin]

Amazon etc are not carts that a normal user can ever expect to duplicate using an off the shelf system so I dont know why people are mentioning them?

I always tell people cubecart, its done me very well over the years and is easy to use and modify which is the main thing for me.

[greetea]

I've been hearing about e-commerce solutions and got curious to know about what it is about. I searched online and found a review for the top 10 e-commerce solutions for this year. Those included in the list are BigCommerce, goMerchant, 3DCart, Volusion, Fortune3, CoreCommerce, Yahoo Merchant, ProStores, Network Solutions and GoDaddy Quick Shopping Cart. I'm not sure if they are really the best. If you have used any of them, please share. I'm a newbie with e-commerce & I'm doing my research about it.

[seomagician]

I hav a lot of experience wih Osc and Zen but recently we started looking for a new solution. We tried Magento but got frustrated quickly. We are now testing CS Cart and really like what we see.

There are so many solutions and a lot depends on your requirements. I like the Needs list above. It gives you some idea of how to spec your own needs on before researching. A lot of carts are over kill for the average start-up less than 20 product store.

[neonexus]

Magento is super strong but, it does take quite a bit of knowledge and time if you are developing yourself. I have personally used it with much success including a single admin/multiple domain instance. I do recommend it IF you are willing to put in the time and effort to 1) learn it in-depth OR 2) hire a competent Magento developer to perform the work.

[pixma85]

network solutions is powerful for the price , volusion is almost double the price but double the features.