[BNM] Zencart

[AndrewGill73@gmail.com]

Catherine,

Hello. I've used Zencart before - I actually quite like it despite it not
being particularly elegant - it is PHP "old skool", it's been around for
years and has loads of features that seem to be added a bit haphazardly over
time.

I found it to be reliable and well supported though. The administrator menus
are not very well laid out so it's sometimes difficult to find the
functionality you need and the standard templates are very ugly but can
easily be modified. It's also quite easy to hack the PHP to do what you
want.

I'd probably choose Magento instead now or go for GoodBarry.com

Hope this helps.

Best,
Andy Gill

2009/7/8 JOHN COOPER <John.Cooper at atomicshed.com>

> I think shopify now also have an api you can play with.
> another simple hosted solution is bigcartel which is very affordable -
> although obviously less features
>
> jc
>
> On 7 Jul 2009, at 18:15, Rob Lacey wrote:
>
> > Out of ZenCart and OSCommerce, ZenCart is better although when
> > OSCommerce 3 finally makes it out there it will probably swing the
> > other
> > way too. Its more easily customisable. Really you need to have some
> > PHP
> > knowledge to make it worthwhile with either of these two.
> >
> > Perhaps a hosted solution is better. I quite like the idea of Shopify
> > which is a hosted solution, its not cheap but its pretty good and the
> > team who built it are always adding improvements. Don't use
> > EKMPowershop
> > for sure, they store credit cards insecurely which is in nobody's best
> > interests.
> >
> > Erm....yeah so Shopify if my recommendation.
> >
> > RobL
> >
> > Catherine Pope wrote:
> >> Hello Folks
> >>
> >> What do you good people think to Zencart?  I was considering using it
> >> for my publishing website, which will be selling around 12 titles.
> >> Is
> >> that a good solution, or is there something better?  I want a simple
> >> solution that doesn't involve a horrendous learning curve, but is
> >> also
> >> scalable for when I become an international publishing phenomenon.
> >> Ahem.
> >>
> >> Ta muchly
> >>
> >> Catherine
> >>
> >
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