[BNM] Wordpress eCommerce

[AndrewGill73@gmail.com]

The WP ecommerce plugin has very limited ecommerce functionality.

I use Zencart and have to carefully hack it to make changes. Architecturally
it's a fairly typical old-style PHP messy application which I'm quite
comfortable with hacking!

Zencart is widely supported, is mature and has a LOT of functionality. I
cannot find a better open-source alternative to switch to (I wish I
could)....

I've been testing alternatives for ages - the two best are:

1) Magento which is great but runs very very slow without an expensive
server.
2) Prestashop which looks great but is in beta (by this i mean proper beta -
not the google style of beta which is essentially a finished product!).

cheers,
Andy

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2008/11/12 Russell Beech <russell.beech at gmail.com>

> I would also say avoid the likes of Zencart and osCommerce like the plague.
> Out of interest; what's your reason for citing Cubecart?  I think it serves
> a role in the category of "cheap/free, simple, quick to implement & easy to
> work with."
>
>
> 2008/11/12 Toby Hammond <tobydecks at gmail.com>
>
> > Stuff I've read says that the WP eCommerce plugin might not be the most
> > secure thing in the world.
> >
> > Personally, I'd avoid it and go with something like CubeCart, ZenCart or
> > the
> > like.
> >
> > 2008/11/12 Steve Purkiss <steve at stevepurkiss.com>
> >
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://digg.com/software/13_Beautiful_And_Open_Source_E_Commerce_Applications
> > >
> > > I've not used the WP one listed, have used ubercart which is good if
> > > you need the community functions of drupal too but if you just want
> > > store then there's a few to try. Some also might be up and running on
> > > http://opensourcecms.com to try out.
> > >
> > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Danny Hope <danny.hope at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > Does anyone have experience with WP eCommerce or similar plugins?
> > > >
> > > > Is it even a good idea to try and do ecommerce in Wordpress?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Danny Hope
> > > >
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> > > > Regards,
> > > > Danny Hope
> > > > http://linkedin.com/in/dannyhope
> > > > 07595 226 792
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