CS-Cart released the version 2.0 of their e-commerce shopping cart solution
Jun 27, 2009 by Mircea Goia MyTestBox News
The team behind it just released the version 2.0 of this shopping cart software I never heard of until now. But that’s no wonder because there are way too many shopping cart solutions out there (free or paid).
CS-Cart is just one of those e-commerce solutions and it’s not free, will cost you $265 to get a license (they offer a free trial though so I might try it and see how it looks/works – they offer an online demo as well).
The technology behind it is a classic open source PHP/MySQL stack, like many other solutions and the target of this software seem to be geared towards small shops (which don’t have too much technology knowledge – that’s why this solution it’s called “out of the box”). If that is so then they have to compete with Zencart, Cubecart, osCommerce which are more established e-commerce shopping cart solutions and are free.
In this new version they seem to have improved their product by adding new designs and skins, layout block manager, design mode, web-based upgrade center, product filters and others (see the complete list here). Also, now it is possible to customize the software without any (or with minimum) modification in the source code which is always a good thing if you don’t want to spend money on the programmers.
One thing they should put on their website though is their contact details (and I don’t mean just the contact form but their location, maybe a phone number). This can boost the customers confidence.
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Tags: cs-cart, e-commerce, mysql, online store, open-source, php, shopping cart, solution
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November 23rd, 2009 at 3:33 am
It’s a Russian cart which is probably why they don’t put address or phone number.
I’m using it with some success but the support is not the best – no-one at all at weekends and they have a tendency to take national (Russian Federation) holidays without any prior warning – you just log on to the help desk and there is a notice saying that for 24 hours no-one will be there.
I’ve tried talking to them about the need for normal-standard support (I mean, there is NO excuse for not putting up a holiday schedule in advance if these are national holidays) but got nowhere – nothing has changed.
Nice code in theory, quite buggy in practice. Next time we upgrade we may switch to another cart.
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June 27th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
CS-Cart released the version 2.0 of their e-commerce shopping cart solution:
The team behind it just released .. http://tinyurl.com/l3pbtt
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