Need recommendation for online store software/template

[EarlyPorsche]

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

It's all a 3 part solution.

Store/shopping cart

Merchant bank

Payment gateway

For carts Zencart, gold cart, x cart are all derivatives of OSCommerce which is an opensorce, free solution. The derivatives charge for the support and documentation.

Merchant account, check your bank.

Payment gateway, like Motion, I'll only use authorize.net. Their rate is
No more than their competition and they are one of the top three global players.

Your alternatives are
Hosted solutions like Volusion. I've implemented them for
People in the past and
while they have their place they are not
My first choice

PM me or call me tomorrow if
You want, I think
You have
My number

What cons does volusion have? I know there is a company called big commerce also.

[Zeke]

Let me try OS Commerce and see what it has to offer. I guess that's a download rather than play on their site. I do have Front Page around here somewhere, if that's almost the same thing. However, I'm more interested in a shopping cart and customer management than I am having a pretty web site. In fact, I expect eBay to figure in for a lot of sales and directing traffic back to my home page for additional information and features, like a blog and possibly some entertainment.

I can always copy and paste posts from PPOT!

On the serious side, I'd like to do a couple of short videos, post them on Youtube and have those links plus embedding on my site. I even have some vague and distant plans for a cartoon series. You might have read on the FB thread that my domain is TigMcStick.com(not up yet) and I'm working on a caricature of ol' Tig hisself. I think he be a bit of Irish. So a bushy lad he will be.

And, he will be my logo. I'd kind of like to do somethings in the 3rd person. "Tig says...."

Otherwise, I'd just do an eBay store, put up with their crap and be done with it. But I won't because if I can't have some fun, I'm not doing this.

[cstreit]

Ive used rhem all guys....

My picks: getiing started, basic selling without a lot of content oscommerce and zen cart
Fair bit of content, small to mid size site, some money to out in, joomla and virtuemart
Market Leader or on you way, want lots of optio s and spending money on high style/marketing, Magento.


Apologies for the errors, on my tablet...

[Zeke]

Man, I'm sure I'm going to regret post no. 22 in the not too distant future because I have no idea what I'm talking about. I may have to call Chris and Monkey. Oh, Brando too. Maybe Richard will have me down for lunch if he's in the OC. I think the idiot is back East, but I might have to ping or pong him.

Thanks to all.



So far.

[cstreit]

Zeke, feel free. I'm out this week but next week I'm around.

[KevinP73]

I'm using Yahoo Merchant Starter. It's a template based site with customizable programing for the more talented. It cost $39.00 a month and includes cc processing, a boatload of email address along with a fair selection of features.
General opinions?
TIA