Shopping Carts
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- CMYKreative
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Just a general query to see what others thought of the current crop of shopping carts that are available for use within Joomla.
When doing multiple languages, the usual shipping/tax, coupons, integrating different payment systems etc, which ones did you find the easiest/best to work with? - CMYKreative : Graphic Design , Web Design , Printing , Banner Ads , Branding and more.
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- yaani
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I haven't used different languages with any shopping carts. I have installed Virtuemart on several sites.
The most recent site I built I used Ecwid & I really like it & prefer it over Virtuemart. The shipping, sales tax, and payment processing/gateways is made extremely simple. It is extremely simple for site owners to manage/add their products. The only con is you have to have the pro version if you want discounts but the pro version is only $17 a month. Otherwise it is free up 100 products after that you pay $17 a month. It is well worth the $17 a month.
A big plus is you don't have to worry about updating software. I have one site that uses Virtuemart that has a shipping mod & when I tried to upgrade with a new release of Virtuemart the shipping part of check out got errors so I had to roll back to the old version of virtuemart & haven't had time to go back & retry or debug it.
They have already made one software upgrade since I installed it & usually you don't have to do anything after a software upgrade, in this case I just had to click one check box in my Ecwid account to select whether I wanted to implement a new feature or not (forward & backward arrows on product page to page through products)
I am using Ecwid to do online registration for a kart racing series so I only have 12 products but some of them have multiple options & that was easy to do (see Race Entry product). It was also extremely simple to integrate the shopping cart into their Facebook account. And extremely easy to integrate it into the Joomla site, I used RokEcwid component which makes integration with the Joomla site a breeze. It is also very easy to cutomize/overide css. That is done on the Ecwid site & when upgrades occur your changes are not overridden.
You can see it in action here
http://www.texasprokartchallenge. com (remove space)
www.facebook.com/ texaspkc (remove space & Click on Online Registration)
I haven't tried any of the other shopping carts but would like to hear about others experience with them.
I highly recommend Ecwid over Virtuemart for speed and ease of set up, configuring payments, shipping, sales tax & customizing css and will be using it in future eCommerce sites
Update: It looks like it has 40 languages enabled & has this note "A customer will see a language most suitable of all languages enabled by store owner. This language will be automatically set based on customer's browser settings. If there are no appropriate enabled languages, the default language will be shown." I don't know how this works but I will take a look at my browser settings & see if I can select a different language to see how it looks.
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- yaani
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I just changed my browser settings to use French as the default language & the front end of the shopping cart has all the shopping cart labels in French. You can test this by setting your browser settings to a foreign language & see how it looks.
So it looks like 40 languages are set up by default & you can send them a label file to add others. What is displayed in the front end depends on a site visitor's language settings.
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- CMYKreative
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- Thanks Yaani-Mai, Ecwid was what we were looking to move over to instead of VM or other carts we'd used previously. I'm interested to hear what others experiences have been so thanks for that.
- CMYKreative : Graphic Design , Web Design , Printing , Banner Ads , Branding and more.
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- yaani
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Oh, I forgot to tell you that I only have one category which is race registration so I have it set to display all the products in that one category instead of displaying all categories. You can also set which view is displayed by default. I have mine set ot a table view, you can see that the site visitor can select a List or Grid view & you can set any of them to be the default view. Only the List & Grid views allow you to drag & drop products into the Shopping Bag.
I'd like to hear from someone that has tried HikaShop.
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- CMYKreative
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Has anyone tried AceShop? (
www.joomace.net/joomla-extensions/aceshop
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This looks very interesting, with lots of great features . . . - CMYKreative : Graphic Design , Web Design , Printing , Banner Ads , Branding and more.
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- Peter Osipof
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Ecwid is not a Joomla extension, it is bridged so if you are going to look into bridged shopping carts than you have many options such as Magento which RT has a club for it, than there is AceShop which is OpenCart, there is PrestaShop with Joomla bridge and I read someone is working on CS-Cart bridge there could be many others.
If you want Joomla native extensions other than VirtueMart have a look at JED there are few listed the ones that seem promising are HikaShop and JoomShopping, there is redShop and Tienda to name a few.
But all boils down to what you want to sale? See www.rockettheme.com/forum/index.php?f=21...59961&rb_v=viewtopic - VirtueShop
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