Category: Ecommerce

30+ Well Designed Online Shopping Carts

August 14th, 2009 in Ecommerce, Insipiration, Web Design | View Comments

There are more and more online stores within the internet. You can build an online shopping cart easily by using open source ecommerce shopping cart solution. After all, you just need to customize the look and feel of the website.

One of the famous open source ecommerce shopping cart software is Magento, and we had covered magento template in our previous post. A well designed online shopping cart will certainly bring you more revenue. So, it is advised that you put more efforts in your shopping cart’s design.

Today, we are going to look into 30+ well designed online shopping carts. We try not to cover those famous ecommerce websites such as Amazon and Ebay. The intention of this article is to share some simple and well design ecommerce websites with our readers.

1. Better Closet

Better Closet

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Magento: The Shopping Cart Software

August 4th, 2009 in Ecommerce | View Comments

Magento is the kind of shopping cart software that could actually boast of its programming structure. It’s very user-friendly and gives users a lot of options. Project code upgrading is constantly done, and since it’s user friendly, users do not have to worry about installing updates because it does not take a lot of time and could be done easily. Why? It’s simple, because installation of these updates does not require you to go through a lot of codes unlike other open-source software. Compared to other open-source software, it’s very easy to customize thus giving users a wider range of customization possibilities. The module interface allows me to make the modules I need to create without making it difficult for the shoppers to go through each module.

Users are also given more control over their stores. It is impressive to note that Magento allows users to control multitudes of stores and websites using only one administration panel. Aside from these, upgrading the stores and websites through that common panel does not create any problems.

This shopping cart software also has systems for meta tags and SEO url’s and it allows users to show product comparisons. Aside from being able to easily find the product they intend to buy or see, customers can always edit their order information even if they are already in the checkout process without having to open another window.They can also edit their orders, report shopping carts that were abandoned, do shipping to multiple addresses by just using one shipping order and estimate how much shipping would cost even if they do not log in to their accounts. Added to all these perks, and of which the shoppers have become fond of, are the wish list where they could put all the products they wish to get and their reviews and rating of every product that they have bought.

Since Magento can provide all of these features, it would also require users to get a high powered hosting and some not so common extensions of the PHP. Examples of these extensions are the DOM, mhash, mcrypt, PDO/MySQL and simplexm1, all of which are used in the 5.2.0 PHP. The usual 8MB PHP configuration is not compatible with Magento. Owing also to the bulk of features, some of which are still yet to be further developed, Magento runs slower compared to other shopping cart software.

As a whole, Magento is the shopping cart software that makes life easier for both the web admin and the customers.

Why CRE Loaded should be your number one choice in shopping cart solution

July 28th, 2009 in Ecommerce | View Comments

CRE Loaded has come a long way since it first came out as an offspring of the osCommerce shopping cart software. It did make use of some of the key features in osCommerce, those that were reviewed as helpful and are efficient. Aside from this, it also incorporated much, much more thus making it way, way ahead than its predecessor.

The CRE loaded shopping cart software makes use of a language system that supports many languages. Thus, it is very friendly even to non-users of the English language. Most users are also very picky when it comes to the template system that a shopping cart system uses, and with CRE Loaded, you do not have to worry because their template systems are very graphic. The software is also very well-supported, so you  can expect for much updating for upgrades and a lot of support for troubleshooting when troubleshooting issues arise.

The shopping cart software, CRE Loaded, also has shopping cart migration services. It allows users to migrate products, product attributes, images and categories, orders, order status, customers and their images, currencies that can be used in the payment and manufacturers of the products.

The shopping cart software has earned a reputation of being stable and very usable for both medium scale and small scale online businesses. What makes CRE Loaded much efficient is the fact that it has been developed by many developers all over the world. That’s like thousands of ideas and experiences in using shopping cart software put together. All of the disappointments they got in various shopping cart software through time they used to make CRE Loaded software very stable and secure. Aside from this, they have also added all of the advantages they know that shopping cart software should have and this resulted to the development of features that are very useful to users.

More than this, CRE Loaded provides what most users need – quality and dependability. What users are looking for in shopping cart software solutions that makes shopping for the customers and admin easier? And that’s what CRE Loaded actually provides.