I just finished an in-depth review of 8 PHP/MySQL ecommerce applications, but I started with this list of 27 ecommerce applications. Read on to get a quick comment on each shopping cart. The following applications were recommended through various internet sources, listed at the bottom of this post.
| Name | Try? | Reason | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agora Cart | No | Written in PERL | |
| Avactis | No | Amateur, uses old or deprecated html | $299 |
| Batavi | Maybe | Fork of osCommerce, BUT completely rewritten (good) | |
| Boss Cart | No | Not enough reviews available | $330 |
| cpCommerce | No | No longer supported | |
| CRE Loaded | Maybe | Fork of osCommerce | |
| CS Cart | Yes | Love it. So many features available, fast response time, free addons, cool interface |
$285 |
| CubeCart | No | Security audits are great, but lacks common features | $180 |
| DashCommerce | No | Uses .NET; site was down when I visited | |
| digiShop | Yes | File structure & code "clean and easy to understand"; interface is more “staid” than CS-Cart but has slightly more features. Bit of a blah front end. |
$799 |
| Digistore | No | Not enough reviews/td> | |
| Interspire | No | Also known as BigCommerce (HOSTED), Shopping Cart; SEO, templates = good; Product options and costly upgrades = bad | $1,800 |
| Magento | No | Slow, Administration complicated, recommend dedicated server | |
| Miva | No | slow, bloated, custom scripting language | |
| OpenCart | No | Similar to osCommerce – have to install a plugin for basic features, plug-ins tedious to find. | |
| osCMax | No | Fork of osCommerce | |
| osCommerce | No | Hard to support, customize; upgrades too infrequent. | |
| PHP Shop | No | No longer active | |
| Prestashop | No | Uses CSS, OOP, and no non-semantic tables, however, it’s just NOT ready for bigtime. Might as well stay with osCommerce | |
| Shop-Script | No | Limited features, though it does use smarty templates, Authorize.net certified | $299 |
| ShopSite Pro | No | Written in C, affiliated with BlueHost; HOSTED cart? | $1,295 |
| StoreSprite | No | Not enough reviews | |
| SunShop | Yes | Div based layout, good SEO, responsive tech support | $189 |
| UberCart | No | Built for Drupal | |
| VirtueMart | No | Built for Joomla | |
| WP eCommerce |
No | Built for WordPress (good), but not a full-featured store (bad) |
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| X-Cart | Yes | Smarty templates, few/no bugs; Don’t like how you have to search for everything vs. just having a scroll-thru list |
$575 |
| Zen Cart | No | Fork of osCommerce, stable, "too much code to wade through" |
alright! (my second blog remark of the week – I am ). Respectable topic, DUDE! (hee – couldn’t refuse it). In entire seriousness, it is a extraordinaire write up.