Who Knows e-Commerce?

Hey, a call for help. I have a friend who is looking for a solid e-Commerce solution on her website. It’s not my strong point, so I offered to ask you lot if you can recommend something to her. Ideally it should integrate with a CMS and be able to facilitate international purchases.

Any ideas?

  • http://www.tylerreed.co.za Tyler

    Mike, Web Africa apparently help you step-by-step to start an e-commerce site. Maybe that could be an option?

  • http://www.rafiq.za.net/blog Rafiq Phillips

    OScommerce works ok for this too.

  • http://stii.za.net Stii

    Depends on what CMS she is using. Joomla got a good e-Commerce plugin called VirtueMart. Drupal I’m not sure of. As Tyler said, some hosts got OS Commerce, Zen Cart and others. All depends on her flavour! Ask her to send me an email and I’ll give her advice.

  • http://www.markforrester.co.za Mark

    I second Stii. Try VirtueMart with a Joomla CMS system.

  • http://carlspies.com Carl

    Drupal’s e-commerce system is solid and a bit of a biatch to configure. Fortunately ubersoft has released ubercart for Drupal. It’s featureset is listed at:
    http://www.ubercart.org/what_is_ubercart
    and it’s fully extensible by Drupal’s modules et al :)

  • http://carlspies.com Carl

    Drupal’s e-commerce system is solid and a bit of a biatch to configure. Fortunately ubersoft has released ubercart for Drupal. It’s featureset is listed at:

    http://www.ubercart.org/what_is_ubercart

    and it’s fully extensible by Drupal’s modules et al. (they’ve also got some interesting features upcoming, like integration with quickbooks)

  • http://www.vinnylingham.com Vinny Lingham

    I would recommend ShopDirect.co.za

  • http://www.ddmcd.com Dennis McDonald in Alexandria, Virginia USA

    Mike-
    You might also try the QUESTIONS system on Linkedin.
    - Dennis

  • http://www.heitamag.com Adrian Kirsten

    What about google’s shopping cart? It integrates well with most of the major commerce packages like oscommerce. is really cool. I haven’t used it myself though, but it really looks cool, that plus everybody loves google, and trusts google!

  • http://www.wosbee.com halla

    Try Wosbee (www.wosbee.com) Hosted webshop with easy management interface.

  • http://www.ubercart.org Andy Lowe

    Just for the record. Ubercart was not developed by Ubersoft. I am not certain who Ubersoft is, but I know we (the Ubercart developers) are not them.
    Peace,
    Andy

  • http://carlspies.com Carl

    Doh. Add lots of gaming and drupal and it was bound to happen as an association :P

    Apologies for the error Andy and kudos on ‘the cart’.