by Jeff
13. April 2009 07:48
I've started researching the various open source shopping carts. So far I've found that nopCommerce is by far the most feature rich open source shopping cart. There's a couple contenders to consider but they aren't worth considering without the full payment features. So nopCommerce is what I'm going forward with.
The other open source shopping carts only give you a PayPal payment provider (the other payment providers are in there commercial version) I don't know about you but I don't have a customer that uses PayPal they all have merchant accounts and I need a solution that will work for any one of my customers most of them are small businesses with little to no computer knowledge, so the solution has to be as seamless as possible.
First let me give you a little background on what my customer's needs are and then I'll cover why I'm considering nopCommerce as the right solution for them.
I make it sound like I'm considering this for a long list of customer but I"m not I'm only considering it for one right now but my future customers will also benifit from my research.
My customer has a small beauty supply store and are considering selling products online but would like to the web site costs down to a minimum. There store is packed with products and by the looks of it every beauty product is there. I was very impressed with the various hair, skin and nail products they have. I didn't know so many variations existed.
There requirements are straight forward they want to create an online presence that will show case some of there products and at a later date they'll add a shopping cart. They want to add the shopping cart at a later date to try and save money on site startup costs. I'm hoping that nopCommerce will provide a solution that will allow my customer to just implement there e-commerce solution right from the start.
Now to nopCommerce. nopCommerce has all the features you'd expect from a shopping cart and so far has been easy to work with.
Here's a partial list of the nopCommerce features you can get the full feature list here.
- Supports categories and manufacturers
- Categories can also be fully nested to any level desired (sub-categories)
- Products can be mapped to more than one category or manufacturer
- Products can be mapped to more than one category or manufacturer
- Multilingual support
- Multi currency support
- Measure weights, measure dimensions
- Real-time currency exchange rates (ECB)
- SSL support
- Export to XML
- Fully 100% customizable design using templates
- Configurable list of allowed countries
- For registration
- For billing
- For shipping
Gotta go do the work thing.
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