Store Software/Shopping Carts, Items 1 to 50

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1. Cart of the Week: CommerceV3, by Kate Monteith, Practical eCommerce, 12-18-2009 Describes Commerce V3, a hosted SaaS application that costs about $295/month and has set-up costs between $995 and $7,495.
2. Cart of the Week: ShopFactory, by Kate Monteith, Practical eCommerce, 10-9-2009 One of the early carts is ShopFactory, with more than 229,000 shops created. It is a licensed software solution with a cost of $19.95 to $79.95 per month depending on the number of products. To buy the license outright is $999.
3. ProStores: DIY Web Shop for Merchants and eBay Sellers, by Vangie Beal, Ecommerce-Guide.com, 10-29-2009 Overview of how to set up ProStores, a way to sell both on eBay and off-eBay. Explains newly added features and pricing. Currently they offer a one-month free trial subscription.
4. Seller Tools: EBay Compatible Shopping Carts, by Vangie Beal, Ecommerce-Guide.com, 9-16-2009 Discusses software that allow you to integrate customer data from eBay sales with data from your non eBay storefront -- an eBay compatible shopping cart. Highlights three: Mercantec's E-Commerce Express, SecureNetshop, and DesignCart.
5. Cart of the Week: Shop Maker, by Kate Monteith, Practical eCommerce, 9-18-2009 Shop Maker is a hosted e-commerce platform with more than 100 users, a product of Red eye media in the UK. Cos is about USD $49.27 per month.
6. Cart of the Week: Beanbasket, by Kate Monteith, Practical eCommerce, 8-21-2009 Discusses Beanbasket hosted shopping cart software that serves about 200 cart users since 1999. It provides a web store management system that handles everything from catalog to account database management. It starts at about $300 per month.
7. Twenty Design Examples of Magento Commerce-based Stores, by Armando Roggio, Practical eCommerce, 8-14-2009 Due to its open source nature, Magneto Commerce is extremely popular. Here are 20 design examples of Magneto carts across the web.
8. Cart of the Week: CS-Cart, by Kate Monteith, Practical eCommerce, 8-7-2009 CS-Cart is a PHP/MySQL shopping cart software with modular architecture and template-driven design. Software is licensed along with the full source code at US $265. The develop is based in Russia. There are currently about 7,000 shops worldwide.
9. Cart of the Week: KonaKart, by Kate Monteith, Practical eCommerce, 7-24-2009 KonaKart is a java-based ecommerce software solution. There is a free community edition and Enterprise Extensions with features such as multi-store and fast indexed searching for large catalogs, available for a one-time licensing fee of about $5000 US.
10. Shopping Cart News: osCommerce, CRE Loaded, Zen Cart, by Kerry Watson, Ecommerce-Guide.com, 6-25-2009 The New osCommerce Project will not complete osCommerce 3.0 and 4.0, citing outdate code, but will build a whole new cart from scratch, to be released as osQuantum. CRE Loaded released a PCI-compliant version 6.4.
11. Cart of the Week: Flying Cart, by Kate Monteith, Practical eCommerce, 6-19-2009 Flying Cart has about 6,500 stores using its hosted shopping cart software. Cost is $14.99 per month for up to 50 products, $29.99 up to 250, and $59.99 for up to 1,000 products. It focuses on simplicity and marketing automation for small to medium size merchants.
12. Three For Free: Web Tools for Your Business Site or Blog, by Vangie Beal, Ecommerce-Guide.com, 5-26-2009 Overview of E-junkie Shopping cart, a low cost cart with strength in selling digital, non-tangible goods such as e-books. It supports PayPal Standard and Pro, Google Checkout, and Authorize.net. Pricing is based on the number of products for sale. Less than 10 is $5/mo.
13. Spring Round-Up: EBay Alternatives, by Vangie Beal, Ecommerce-Guide.com, 5-13-2009 Considers popular eBay online marketplace alternatives: Etsy for sellers of handmade crafts, Bonanzle that offers fixed-price and make-an-offer formats, eCrater offers a free Web store builder and online marketplace, and eBid.net introduces a new tax tool .
14. Focus on SEO, Open Source to Boost Online Sales, by Michelle Megna, InternetNews, 5-12-2009 The Garner "Cost Cutting in E-Commerce 2009" report suggests commercial, off-the-shelf, or open source software as a way to save up to 35% of maintenance and license costs off custom initiatives. Except for market leaders, custom development doesn't usually provide a truly differentiated customer experience. E-tailers should focus on tool development to increase conversion rates.
15. Getting the Most Out of Zen Cart, by Mark Baartse, Ecommerce-Guide.com, 4-29-2009 Offers some tips on how to set up Zen Cart. Kill the clutter, recommends the author. Only show the features you need. He also explains cross selling during checkout, speeding your site, tracking advertising, newsletters, and security.
16. Extreme Makeover: osCommerce Version 3 Alpha 5, by Kerry Watson, Ecommerce-Guide.com, 4-21-2009 osCommerce open source released a stable, production-ready version 3 Alpha 5. The author gives a brief history of osCommerce, what's new -- built-in templates, a new control panel design, and compatibility with PHP v5.2+.
17. Cart of the Week: 3dCart, by , Practical eCommerce, 3-31-2009 A profile of 3dCart, a hosted shopping cart with fees ranging from $19.99 to $99.99 per month. Interview with a representative of the software vendor as well as merchant user.
18. Cart of the Week: EC Express by Mercantec, by Brendan Gibbons, Practical eCommerce, 3-20-2009 Provides a profile of EC Express by Mercantec, a free, hosted cart designed to be a simple application. It works with credit cards plus Google Checkout, PayPal Express, TrialPay, Checkout by Amazon, eLayaway, and others. It lacks inventory control and and digital download.
19. Cart of the Week: Cartweaver, by Brendan Gibbons, Practical eCommerce, 3-13-2009 Describes Cartweaver, a licensed cart system designed for integration with Dreamweaver, costing $295. It is written in ASP, PHP, and ColdFusion.
20. Cart of the Week: AmeriCommerce, by Brendan Gibbons, Practical eCommerce, 3-6-2009 AmeriCommerce Shopping Cart Software is a hosted cart solution with pricing ranging from $39 to $299/month. It offers multi-store management and API access.
21. Amazon Can Both Sell and Advertise Your Products, by Armando Roggio, Practical eCommerce, 2-26-2009 Discusses the various ways of selling products and placing ads on Amazon. Be aware that Amazon can be arbitrary about the products they list. They control shipping prices, so you'll need to pad the item price. List only profitable items. The monthly fee is $39.99, so you need to sell 100+ items each month to make it worthwhile.
22. Cart of the Week: OXID eShop, by Brendan Gibbons, Practical eCommerce, 2-27-2009 The OXID eShop is from a German company. It offers 3 versions: free, professional, and enterprise, that range up to $16,539 for a license plus $5,080 annually.
23. Mining Email for Contacts, by Katherine Boehret, Wall Street Journal, 4-15-2009 Boehret writes about Gwabbit, a tool that automatically hunts through your emails as you receive them, finding contact information that can be captured and saved in your digital address book.
24. Open Source E-Commerce: Survey Rates the Best in OSC, by Kerry Watson, Ecommerce-Guide.com, 2-26-2009 What's the best open source e-commerce program today? 39% of respondents voted for the winner, New osCommerce Project. Others were Magento, and CRE Loaded.
25. Cart of the Week: UltraCart, by Brendan Gibbons, Practical eCommerce, 2-20-2009 Overview of UltraCart hosted shopping cart by interviewing an UltraCart VP and a user. The company has been in business 13 years. Pricing is $49.95/month for up to 250 products. The cart is customizable, sees Salesforce.com integration in the future.
26. Cart of the Week: Corncart, by Brendan Gibbons, Practical eCommerce, 2-6-2009 Brief review of the new, free, open-source Corncart. The company is based in China with a US office.
27. 2009 Brings Explosion of Free, Cheap E-commerce Programs, by Kerry Watson, Ecommerce-Guide.com, 1-20-2009 The author discusses the "Big Three": osCommerce, Zen Cart, and CRE Loaded. Discusses "the best of the rest": X-Cart, Virtuemart, XT-Commerce, Open Freeway, CubeCart, Quick.Cart, Ecommercetemplates, Ubercart, osC-Max, EOS Online Merchant, LiteCommerce, and JadaSite.
28. Cart of the Week: SearchFit, by , Practical eCommerce, 12-19-2008 Discussion of SeachFit shopping cart, a hosted cart, with pricing from $99 to $499/month. It is designed to be SEO friendly. It is profiled by a company spokesperson as well as a former user.
29. eBay's Large Merchant Services in Full Swing, by Vangie Beal, Ecommerce-Guide.com, 12-10-2008 After reorganizing its fee structure last summer to lower listing costs to catalog sellers, eBay is now opening its Large Merchant Services offering, a set of APIs design to help larger eBay sellers to process high numbers of transactions more efficiently
30. Cart of the Week: Volusion, by Armando Roggio, Practical eCommerce, 12-5-2008 Volution uses a tiered pricing structure based on the number of products available, from $29.95 to $197 for unlimited. Comments from a Volution representative and a store user.
31. osCommerce is Dead: Long Live the NEW osCommerce Project, by Kerry Watson, Ecommerce-Guide.com, 11-25-2008 After eight years with no final product in sight and no visible development activity, a splinter group of osCommerce programmers has left the dormant project and officially formed a new osCommerce project. It is headed up by Rhea Anthony. A v2.0 Final is planned for December. The article contains a 15 point comparison between the old osCommerce version and the new.
32. CafePress Creates Cash for the Casual Online Seller, by Aaron Weiss, Ecommerce-Guide.com, 11-17-2008 CafePress hosts about 2.5 million "shops" or customers who sell products through their service. CafePress has popularized the "on demand" model of printing your designs on products such as clothing, stationery, posters, buttons, mugs, etc. The basic store is free, Premium is $60/yr for greater customization. Competitors include Zazzle and Spreadshirt.
33. OXID eShop, by , OXID eSales AG, 11-3-2008 OXID has released their eShop CE (Community Edition) as open source. OXID eSales AG provides a flexible range of support and licensing options. In addition to CE, they offer a Professional Edition and Enterprise Edition.
34. How to Pick a Shopping Cart: 7 Carts Reviewed, by Tim Slavin, SitePoint, 11-5-2008 Reviews 3 simple site add-ons (PayPal, Google Checkout, and Mal's e-commerce; 2 regular shopping carts (Zen Cart and digiSHOP), and 2 third-party hosted carts (Network Solutions Ecommerce and CoreCommerce). Also covers custom built.
35. Cart Of The Week: ShopSite, by Brendan Gibbons, Practical eCommerce, 10-24-2008 Interview with David Hills, CEO of ShopSite about benefits of the cart, then an evaluation from a competitor.
36. New Features in ShopSite 10.0, by , ShopSite, 10-13-2008 ShopSite's new version 1.0 includes a number of new features, including an HTML editor, VAT capability, multiple shipping carriers, inventory API, improved PayPal fraud protection, an improved shipping API, etc.
37. If You Can’t Beat Amazon, Maybe You Should Join It, by Jennifer Schiff, Ecommerce-Guide.com, 9-15-2008 Many online merchants are selling products on Amazon.com. Advantages include improved search rankings for products, safety and security, site metrics and inventory control, and increased sales. Disadvantages include brutal competition, risk of undue dependence on Amazon, difficulty building customer loyalty, and inability to match Amazon's service level expectations.
38. Open Source: CRE Loaded 6.31 Released...for A Price, by Kerry Watson, Ecommerce Guide, 8-25-2008 CRE Loaded ver 6.3 has been released, which is based on the osCommerce Open Source cart. The review outlines new feature and interface improvements but complains about the 1 year license which must be renewed or the store will lock up.
39. Cart Of The Week: Shopify, by Brendan Gibbons, Practical eCommerce, 8-13-2008 Interview with Shopify's VP of Marketing regarding its strengths and weaknesses followed by an interview with a VP from competitor Miva Merchant. Criticisms centered on a 10K limit of SKUs and development using a new language Ruby on Rails.
40. Review: Interspire Offers Inspiring Storefront Solution, by Wayne Kawamoto, Ecommerce-Guide.com, 8-11-2008 A positive review of Interspire shopping cart, written in PHP and designed for small business online catalogs.
41. If You Build It, They Will Shop, by Ryan Underwood, Inc Magazine, 9-1-2008 Though selling online can be lucrative, setting up an e-commerce operation is often a frustrating exercise, says Underwood. Describes affordable tools that can help you get an online store up and running.
42. A Compatible E-Commerce Solution for Your SEO Campaign, by Scott Buresh, Internet Search Engine Database, 9-3-2008 To help you bridge the gap between out-of-the-box and custom e-commerce software, Buresh identifies 4 major requirements when shopping for a suitable e-commerce solution that's compatible with your SEO campaign.
43. OS Commerce Watch: New Magento 1.1 Released, by Kerry Watson, Ecommerce-Guide.com, 7-25-2008 Describes features of the new release of Magneto 1.1 open source e-commerce platform. Claims a 40% performance increase over 1.0. The new version includes bundled products or kitting, customer-defined product options, and digital downloads.
44. Field Test: Shopping Carts, Part One Of Three, by Brendan Gibbons, Practical Ecommerce, 5-21-2008 A comparison of 3 major shopping cart systems: Miva Merchant, NetConcepts GravityMarket, and Yahoo! Merchant Solutions. With candid comments by users of each product, focused on what they like, what works, what needs improvement.
45. Field Test: Shopping Carts, Part Two Of Three, by Brendan Gibbons, Practical Ecommerce, 5-27-2008 Users compare three different shopping cart software systems and implementations, commenting on what they like and dislike in each setup. This installment covers MonsterCommerce by Network Solutions, E-junkie, and a custom-built application.
46. Shopping Carts: The Umpteenth Time’s The Charm, by Brendan Gibbons, Practical Ecommerce, 5-28-2008 An experienced e-commerce entrepreneur talks about several different shopping cart platforms he has used on various projects (SalesGate, Miva Merchant, osCommerce, Storesprite), the problems he found with each, and why he is switching to Magento for his next projects.
47. Storefront Service IRUN Integrates with eBay, by Vangie Beal, Ecommerce-Guide.com, 5-14-2008 Review of IRUN, a hosted website builder that includes easy and automated eBay auction integration. You select from items in your store for eBay auction. Service includes a variety of site templates, 10 e-mail addresses, newsletter management, polls, etc. for $39.95/month, no set-up fees.
48. Review: AmeriCommerce Is Superpower Storefront, by Wayne Kawamoto, Ecommerce-Guide, 2-21-2008 AmeriCommerce's shopping cart and e-commerce program can support both small and large online stores, as well as hosting multiple storefronts. It offers detailed management tools and reports, and a strong set of features, such as splitting orders out to multiple drop-ship suppliers.
49. Thanks to Internet, Starting Your Own Business Never Easier, by Travis Cook, CIO Today, 3-18-2008 You can let other companies like Amazon.com do most of the work of launching your online store for you, have your store hosted on Yahoo Stores, or un the entire site yourself with free software on your own server. eBay is also an option.
50. Pay-per-click Ads Impact Google Checkout and PayPal, by Greg Laptevsky, Practical eCommerce, 3-5-2008 This brief article describes how both PayPal and Google Checkout can boost the results for pay-per-click ad campaigns, and increase sales conversion by offering trusted alternatives to your customers. Useful comments from readers.