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?

12 Responses to “Who Knows e-Commerce?”
  1. Tyler 26 March 2007 at 1:27 pm #

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

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  2. Rafiq Phillips 26 March 2007 at 2:25 pm #

    OScommerce works ok for this too.

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  3. Stii 26 March 2007 at 2:26 pm #

    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.

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  4. Mark 26 March 2007 at 3:16 pm #

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

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  5. Carl 26 March 2007 at 8:11 pm #

    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 :)

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  6. Carl 26 March 2007 at 8:13 pm #

    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)

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  7. Vinny Lingham 26 March 2007 at 8:26 pm #

    I would recommend ShopDirect.co.za

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  8. Dennis McDonald in Alexandria, Virginia USA 27 March 2007 at 9:44 pm #

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

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  9. Adrian Kirsten 28 March 2007 at 9:38 am #

    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!

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  10. halla 29 March 2007 at 9:08 am #

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

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  11. Andy Lowe 3 April 2007 at 9:26 pm #

    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

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  12. Carl 9 April 2007 at 1:24 pm #

    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’.

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