Can anyone recommend a best ecommerce shopping cart software?

[william]

I'm looking to purchase free/paid shopping carts software that I can use to create e-commerce site for clients. Does anyone have any recommendation's on best shopping/storefront software?

[midwest]

Hi William,
I have been using Cube Cart for the last 2-3 years. ( midwestskatesupply.com)
I do have a few enhancements on my site such as a template(skin) and a few other things. Some were free and some were $. But the ones the were $ were VERY reasonable in my opinion.
They have both free version and paid. Paid is for license and support. However they have a VERY good community that is very good about help with any problems or questions.

Another free cart solution might be Paypals shopping cart. Simple HTML you can intigrate into your website.

For carts you buy, I suggest either CSCart Or CRE Loaded.
I believe both are based on the oscommerce platform, which has been around a long time. Both of these carts are high in user rankings.

OScommerce is another freeby, but in my opinion ugly in its stock form. But if you have the knowledge, is customizable.

Another freeby that is widely used is zencart, but I have no experience with them.

Hope this helps a little.

Midwest

[cactus_donnat]

Yahoo E-commcerce hands down.... http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ecommerce has all the details.

Some quick facts:

• Y!SB provides scalable solutions that make it extremely easy and affordable for small business owners with little technical expertise to achieve success online.

• Y!SB was recently acknowledged by PC Magazine with the Editors’ Choice award.

• For three years running, more Top 500 Internet Retailers are hosted by Yahoo! than any other hosted e-commerce provider (based on 2006, 2007, and 2008 Internet Retailer Top 500 Guides).

• YSB’s two flagship products are Yahoo! Web Hosting and Yahoo! Merchant Solutions/Yahoo! Store.

• Yahoo! Small Business has more than 1.5 million customers, and Merchant Solutions has more than 45,000 customers.

• Billions of dollars in transactions pass through the Yahoo! Merchant Solutions/Yahoo! Store system each year.

Yahoo! stores is really what Solid Cactus built its business around because of the ease of use, search engine friendliness and the ability to add custom design and robust custom features.

ProStores by Ebay also offers a great solution.

Feel free to contact me offline if you have any other questions. Also, sounds like you are a developer/designer yourself-- we have worked in the past with folks like you as a team for their clients. Let us know if there is anything we can do.

Donna

[rashida]

Zeuscart is the best shopping cart software.It is an open source and it is licensed under free GPL and I suggest you to use zeuscart which provides better solutions for your ecommerce sites.
http://www.zeuscart.com