Setting up A Store

robukni · May 25th, 2009, 03:56 PM

Hi i am setting up website for a friends business.

He sells alot of products so i will need an Ecommerce solution.

Ive never worked with an online shop before.

I will need a cart of some sort, i was thinking maybe xcart??

Any other recommendations or advice?

Thanks in advance

davidj · May 25th, 2009, 04:05 PM

I have used actinic before for a client

its a nice product all driven from its own IDE

It does the lot from design to payment process to printing dispatch notes and invoicing

http://www.actinic.co.uk/index.shtml

Its not cheap but you get what you pay for

robukni · May 25th, 2009, 04:09 PM

Yeah came across that. Not sure if its within his budget yet. Any other ideas?

ncollenburg · May 25th, 2009, 07:50 PM

I set up my own store using oscommerce....you can view my site here:http://www.thebargaincart.com. You can also just visit oscommerce to see what they have. Their web address is:http://www.oscommerce.com.

Dubbs · May 26th, 2009, 11:19 AM

There are a lot of open source shopping carts also. Here is a list of some PHP based ones.

robukni · May 26th, 2009, 01:45 PM

Are the Free ones Secure?

Thanks
Robert