Client has about 100 different physical products. Their industry isn’t known as being cutting edge so it’s a leap for them to offer their product for sale online.
They want something inexpensive and easy, at least to start. If it goes well I’m sure they’d want to expand.
What are you guys using? At first I thought I’d just use Google Checkout, but they need the product pages built with a shopping cart integrated. Amazon Business seems like it might be able to do that? Then there are services like which are $20 a month versus google/amazon which just charge a per transaction fee. Or do you just use google / amazon to process the credit cards, then you still need the e-commerce ‘solution’ to handle the product pages and such - thus CoreCommerce? The company already accepts credit cards so they must have a processing solution. CoreCommerce also offers a solution although it seems expensive.
Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
Looks like I could also just install ZenCart which I assume is a much bigger pain to setup and maintain? Having the client be able to add new products would be nice although not mandatory.
Really depends, I have run a ZenCart site for the past year, and it kind of has to be band-aided to be used how I want.
I just had a company finish a RIDICULOUS Magento design that will be going live tomorrow.
If I had to start over tomorrow (and had decent capital to throw on top of the project) I would go with Magento. Too many options, practically everything supports it, I wouldn’t go elsewhere from now on.
Don’t use ZenCart. Anyone that tells you otherwise is failing to keep up with web trends and standards.
Magento is hands down the best, but it’s also feature-packed, meaning it might be an overkill, depending on your needs. From the sound of it, I think it would be a good match for you. An alternative might be Drupal with Ubercart. It sounds like a possible alternative to CoreCommerce might be Shopify.
for the love of god, don’t come back with "omfg I don’t have over 9000 dollars a year for magneto!"
there is a free edition. the free one is the one everyone uses.