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I am in the process of building an ecommerce site for a client of mine.  I am looking for something that is pretty full featured.  There will be probably over 2000 products when finished and I am a bit concerned that BrilliantRetail or CartThrob may be to “simple”

Can anyone offer their opinion on CartThrob? Or BrilliantRetail?  Any other e-commerce suggestions?

Thanks
Joe

Could you give some specifics?  For example, Devot-ee is run with cartthrob.  Does your project have much greater demands than Devot-ee? And if so, what are the greater demands?

Well there are a TON of features I need, and the web info available on BR or CT are pretty limited… so let me try.

Saved carts…. need the ability for a customer to save their cart, and then have an admin modify the saved cart (like add products to it, or manually adjust prices in it)

Packages… need the ability to keep a list of similar products (i.e. video cards) and then let the user upgrade the video card and have the price difference take effect.  Also I wouldn’t want to have to manually track individual options on each product… need a way to globally apply certain individual products to a specific package

Shipping… need realtime calculation of shipping charges based on dimensional weight

So thats the list to start.

We have Brilliant Retail for EE for simple out-of-the-box e-commerce needs.  We have Microsoft e-commerce with Integral Accounting Enterprise [stfb.com] on IIS for the most complete and customizable approach possible for our other small business needs.

Sounds like you would do well with CartThrob2 and the EE Pro Network for specific customization needs if you want something very robust, extremely customizable and fully integrated with EE.

Good luck on your projects.

We have Brilliant Retail for EE for simple out-of-the-box e-commerce needs.  We have Microsoft e-commerce with Integral Accounting Enterprise [stfb.com] on IIS for the most complete and customizable approach possible for our other small business needs.

Sounds like you would do well with CartThrob2 and the EE Pro Network for specific customization needs if you want something very robust, extremely customizable and fully integrated with EE.

Good luck on your projects.

When you say Microsoft e-commerce… do you mean Microsoft Commerce Server?  And are you using that integrated with EE?

No. We use MS e-commerce with IAE [stfb.com] on IIS.

For ecommerce have you looked at something like OpenCart?

Our IT guy was always MS.  So except for ee which we run one install on Ubuntu and a second install on WAMP, we are MS only.  So I’m of no help.

Pro Network developers [ie ]http://www.electricfunction.com] very successfully use OpenCart.

I am in the process of building an ecommerce site for a client of mine.  I am looking for something that is pretty full featured.  There will be probably over 2000 products when finished and I am a bit concerned that BrilliantRetail or CartThrob may be to “simple”

Can anyone offer their opinion on CartThrob? Or BrilliantRetail?  Any other e-commerce suggestions?

Thanks
Joe

There are a few you might want to check out. The best ones are in my opinion:

Zen Cart, cubecart and oscommerce. My personal favourite is Zen Cart.

There are a few you might want to check out. The best ones are in my opinion:

Zen Cart, cubecart and oscommerce. My personal favourite is Zen Cart.

Zen Cart is probably the most flexible and well established, but I’ve found the admin console hard for non-technical customers.

I’ve had all sorts of headaches with Cubecart, we even waited till 5.0.3 thinking it would be stable but it was terribly buggy. Also there’s practically no documentation for v5 especially when it come to creating templates. v5 is also incompatible with Google Base without addons.

BTW, have you compared to OpenCart yet?

There are a few you might want to check out. The best ones are in my opinion:

Zen Cart, cubecart and oscommerce. My personal favourite is Zen Cart.

Zen Cart is probably the most flexible and well established, but I’ve found the admin console hard for non-technical customers.

I’ve had all sorts of headaches with Cubecart, we even waited till 5.0.3 thinking it would be stable but it was terribly buggy. Also there’s practically no documentation for v5 especially when it come to creating templates. v5 is also incompatible with Google Base without addons.

BTW, have you compared to OpenCart yet?

Haven’t tried OpenCart yet man.