Good Morning Everyone,
I have found tons of information on this site very useful. What is the best platform to utilize for a store. We currently utilize yahoo merchant solutions, but I am not sure if this is the best platform. We are strictly a retail site of custom laser etched products. Any ideas?
Jerrod
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What Store Platform?
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Laser Etch USA
, Jul 11 2005 06:57 AM
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Posted 11 July 2005 - 07:02 AM
Hi Jerrod-
I've used (and like) OS Commerce- it's an open-source (free) software that is relatively search friendly.
I've used (and like) OS Commerce- it's an open-source (free) software that is relatively search friendly.
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Posted 11 July 2005 - 07:50 AM
Yahoo Store is generally a fine solution as long as you are familiar with their tools for editing the code, etc.
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Posted 11 July 2005 - 12:43 PM
x-cart is another that can be made search friendly with pretty much a click of a button. But I'll throw out the warning you that it's a bit difficult to get your head around the Smarty templates if you've never used them before and want to tweak some of the basic design and feature compenents.
CubeCart is supposed to be good to, especially if you like CSS. I don't have it on any of my sites (yet) but have heard from others that it's pretty good and easier to tweak than most for design stuff.
CubeCart is supposed to be good to, especially if you like CSS. I don't have it on any of my sites (yet) but have heard from others that it's pretty good and easier to tweak than most for design stuff.
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Posted 24 July 2005 - 04:42 PM
We currently use the yahoo platform and have the website designed around that. Any need ot change at this point?
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Posted 24 July 2005 - 05:02 PM
QUOTE(Laser Etch USA @ Jul 24 2005, 03:42 PM)
We currently use the yahoo platform and have the website designed around that. Any need ot change at this point?
Are you having problems with your platform? "If it ain't broke; don't fix it" IMO.
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Posted 25 July 2005 - 01:06 AM
One of my clients use OS Commerce. There was a temporary glitch when they tried to integrate with their payment gateway. But it was sorted out and it is working fine.
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Posted 25 July 2005 - 11:07 AM
If I wasnt coding a custom solution I would use OS commerce - its pretty sweet, free and powerful.
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Posted 25 July 2005 - 12:43 PM
Before you settle on oscommerce you might want to read this http://www.oscommerc.../community/bugs
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Posted 26 July 2005 - 11:02 AM
I'm no programmer but have used OsCommerce on a family business site and for a hosting/design company I worked for. (Learned quite a bit there) Anyway, OsCommerce is good for most applications. It can get tricky if you have a lot of product options and stuff. I've had trouble getting it to install correctly sometimes. They do have good forums for help though.
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Posted 26 July 2005 - 01:52 PM
I agree that osC is pretty darn good. I use it on several sites and their forums are indeed a big help as was mentioned above. There are free skins available to customize the look of your store, and many contributions to help further modify your store or add hundreds or even thousands of products at all once. There are also contributions which will help make your store SEO friendly by automatically generating title/keywords/description for every single product.
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