Our Preferred Shopping Carts

AmeriCommerce is one of the largest, fully hosted, securely managed and customizable software-as-a-service (SaaS) ecommerce platforms, continually changing and challenging the entire industry with forward thinking features and over 175 integrations with most major software products and services you already use. These features include Multiple Storefront management using one admin console, gift certificates & store credit, subscriptions management, digital products, customizable themes engine, one page checkout process, drip series automated email scheduling, advanced pricing, shipping and discounting rules, traffic management rules and in-depth analytics. Manage your entire store, customers, orders, catalog and marketing from one software platform.

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CartGenie shopping cart software is a turn-key solution that offers ease-of-use for do-it-yourself business owners and flexibility for professional Web designers. Whether you're selling to consumers or businesses, CartGenie enables you to easily build and maintain a high quality online store. CartGenie allows you to customize the appearance of your storefront to create a truly unique online presence that is optimized for search engines. It also includes many configuration capabilities, such as the ability to offer multiple price levels, wish lists, volume discounts, featured products, multiple shipping options, side-by-side product comparisons, and much more.

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Exhaustive eCommerce - CS-Cart is the best shopping cart solution for building an ecommerce website of any size: from a small web store to a virtual shopping mall. A ready storefront, support for many payment and shipping options, full inventory control, unlimited products, promotional tools, and other ecommerce software features out-of-the-box.

Built-in Content Management - With our ecommerce software you can create, edit and publish all kinds of web content including static pages, surveys, newsletters, contact forms, graphic and text banners, customer testimonials, and many others. Handy menu-builder makes the storefront navigation convenient and clear to your web store visitors

Search Engine Optimized - CS-Cart shopping cart software offers a search engine friendly environment that involves the tableless layout, customizable META tags, friendly URLs and Google sitemap. This all contributes well to the proper indexing of your web store and generally improves its ranking among the popular search engines like Google, Yahoo! Search and Bing.

Customizable PHP Software - CS-Cart is PHP shopping cart software that uses MySQL to store data and Smarty template engine to build the website’s look and feel. And its 100% open source code, hook-based modular architecture, modern design technologies, impressive flexibility and development API make CS-Cart a perfect platform for custom ecommerce requirements.

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What is Ecommerce Templates? Ecommerce Templates provides a powerful shopping cart software solution integrating into the main HTML editors; Dreamweaver, Frontpage, Expression Web, GoLive and CSS layouts. It is also possible to use our Generic version to integrate into your existing site.

What is the cost? The price is (check current pricing here) for the shopping cart software. The software behind all the versions is the same, only the front end changes. The purchase price is a one time fee, there are no monthly costs as you are free to choose where you want to host your store. The purchase comes with 6 months of free support and updates which can be renewed if required.

What do I need? Apart from our shopping cart software you will need a host with database support. We offer ASP versions which require an Access database and PHP versions for mySQL. The software is integrated with the major payment processing companies such as PayPal, Google Checkout, authorize.net and many more.

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Magento is a feature-rich, professional open-source eCommerce solution that offers merchants complete flexibility and control over the look, content, and functionality of their online store. Magento’s intuitive administration interface contains powerful marketing, merchandising and content management tools to give merchants the power to create sites that are tailored to their unique business needs. Completely scalable and backed by an extensive support network, Magento offers companies the ultimate eCommerce solution.

CartSpan-Specific Considerations: CartSpan does not support all versions of Magento. If you are interested in integrating to Magento, ensure that you review the supported versions in the Pre-Configurations section step on the Download page on this site. The order-download function is ‘read-only’, so there is never any risk to your database.  If you opt to implement without any assistance, ensure that you ‘Update a Single Item’ before executing a global item update. This will allow you to assess the update behavior before committing a global update. Ensure that all of your pricing is correct in Peachtree as pricing in the cart WILL BE updated with a zero price if that is what is represented in Peachtree.

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nopCommerce is an open source e-commerce solution that contains both a catalog frontend and an administration tool backend. nopCommerce is a fully customizable shopping cart. It's stable and highly usable. From downloads to documentation, nopCommerce.com offers a comprehensive base of information, resources, and support to the nopCommerce community.

nopCommerce is based upon ASP.NET 4.0 technology with a MS SQL 2005 (or higher) backend database. Our easy-to-use shopping cart solution is uniquely suited for merchants that have outgrown existing systems, and may be hosted with your current web host or our hosting partners. It has everything you need to get started in selling physical and digital goods over the internet. nopCommerce offers unprecedented flexibility and control. Since it is open-source, nopCommerce’s source code is available free for download.

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osCommerce Online Merchant is an Open Source online shop e-commerce solution that is available for free under the GNU General Public License. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved. With over 8 years of operation, osCommerce has built a showcase of over 12,700 online shops that have been voluntarily added to the live shops section, and powers many thousands of more online shops worldwide.

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While PayPal itself does not offer the bevy of content management features found in most commercial shopping carts (like many of those listed on this page) it does offer a convenient and affordable means for sellers to transact business with buyers via an existing Website.

It does this by allowing the Seller to configure a concise segment of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) code that can be included on an existing webpage. This code segment presents a 'Buy Now' button (as it is referred to) that redirects the buyer to a PayPal checkout screen where the purchase is transacted. Buyers do not have to have a PayPal account and can use their Debit or Credit Card to make the purchase.

The HTML code for these 'Buttons' can be generated via the PayPal merchant account that you setup as a Seller. Alternately, some commercial shopping cart offerings utilize PayPal buttons exclusively and programatically generate these within their own interface. Either way, you will need a PayPal merchant account to get started.

While this marketing channel has great appeal to small businesses seeking to minimize the overall cost of doing business, it's easy to find many large businesses effectively leveraging the PayPal 'shopping cart.'

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ProductCart is top-quality shopping cart software for small businesses. It contains hundreds of features and integrates with dozens of payment systems. From unlimited pricing levels to mobile storefront support, ProductCart combines advanced ecommerce functionality with remarkable ease of use.

Developed by California-based Early Impact, Inc., ProductCart is the result of over a decade of constant improvements to help companies create and run profitable online stores.

“We are very happy that CartSpan decided to take on the integration between ProductCart and Peachtree” said Massimo Arrigoni, co-founder of Early Impact. “Automating the data stream between a company’s online store and their accounting software can provide tremendous benefits in terms of savings, efficiencies, and reduced errors. We are sure that many businesses will appreciate the integration between our ecommerce software and Peachtree, and take full advantage of it.”

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There are many value-added features within ProductCart that distinguish it from other carts, but it has specific features,  from an accounting integration perspective, that make it very attractive. Here are a few that CartSpan has capitalized upon with its integration to Peachtree accounting:

Build-To-Order (BTO) capability – The more advanced carts in the market have some type of standard kitting functionality, but not the dynamic kitting functionality provided by ProductCart.  It is impractical to attempt pre-configuration of all possible Bills-Of-Material (BOM) in the accounting system and present them within the shopping cart. An overwhelming number of these BOM’s would never be ordered, and those that did are likely ‘one-off’ configurations. Use of ProductCart’s BTO functionality essentially eliminates this administrative ‘bloat’ in the accounting system.

ProductCart’s BTO functionality conveniently writes BTO item components to a table in the database where they are picked-up by the CartSpan API. These components are then imported individually into Peachtree invoice with correct pricing and an appended description clearly indicating the associated parent configuration. If the ‘Peachtree/CartSpan/ProductCart’ user is importing the Web order as an ‘Invoice’, the inventory is relieved immediately; thus supporting the real-time view of inventory that business owners so greatly desire.

Order Handling Charge – A common business requirement, yet often overlooked feature in many shopping cart offerings, is the ability to apply some type of handling fee on the order level. ProductCart offers this functionality and CartSpan supports the import of handling fees against a targeted General Ledger account. This feature eliminates one more instance where the Customer Service Rep must ‘touch’ the order or invoice to ‘get it right’. Elimination of as many of these ‘tweaks’ as possible is the goal of a good integration.

Rule-Based Data Acquisition – ‘Hang’ with me here while I explain this powerful aspect of ProductCart as an open-source offering. Similar to the handling charge problem a lot of businesses face, is the issue of capturing a Purchase Order (PO) number for Business-to-Business (B2B) transactions. Most shopping carts are geared to conduct Business-to-Consumer (B2C) transactions and the common method of PO-based invoicing is ignored. While ProductCart itself does not handle PO capture out-of-the-box, it has, with great foresight, instituted well-organized data-structures to support the capture this and any other customer-specific data.

The CartSpan API for ProductCart has been designed retrieve the PO (or any other value) from these data-structures by referencing a customer-defined rule. Granted, you will still have to code modifications to capture/store the desired information, but this option for easy extensibility is simply not available in other proprietary hosted systems. You are at the mercy of the host when dealing with proprietary systems; not so with ProductCart.

Affiliate Association – ProductCart supports the assignment of an Affiliate ID and an associated commission rate on the order level. This functionality is generally used to reward people for promoting your product.  This could be a sales representative that actually works for you or someone just loosely associated with your organization.  CartSpan has been developed to map to this field and potentially create a payable in the accounting system to a vendor setup with an ID corresponding to the Affiliate ID. The commission rate currently applies to the entire order, regardless of which products are ordered. What would make this even more powerful is to recognize rates by affiliate and item. If one chose not to extend the order tables beyond what they are, some type of weighted average commission rate could be employed to properly represent an overall commission payable.

Product Attributes – Any product attributes configured against an ordered-item are automatically appended to the item description upon import into the Peachtree accounting system. This is a great help if fulfillment is actually managed from within the accounting system. Because most small business accounting systems don’t handle the potentially lengthy attribute descriptions that can be generated, CartSpan offers a rule-based substitution of abbreviations to ensure that the whole description properly fits on the order line description.  

VirtueMart is an Open Source E-Commerce solution to be used together with a Content Management System (CMS) called Joomla!. Joomla! and VirtueMart are written in PHP and can be used in typical PHP/MySQL environments. With its fully-featured eCommerce engine, VirtueMart is perfect to sell your Goods online and drive your Business to new Heights. VirtueMart software powers large Online Shops providing the Performance, Usability and Security you expect from professional Software. VirtueMart is the leading Online-Shop for Joomla! (more than 2.5 million downloads so far!). And the best: it's free! You can download, use and modify it without any restrictions (License: GNU/GPL) - just as Joomla!.

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VP-ASP Cart is one of the oldest and most popular open-source shopping carts. Started in 1999 and powering over 500,000 online stores Worldwide, VP-ASP Cart today is an advanced eCommerce tool. Working with any language and currency, supporting over 150 payment and shipping methods, VP-ASP Cart is built to support business growth in any place of the world.

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The WebJaguar Ecommerce platform by AdvancedEMedia offers full-featured Ecommerce and shopping cart solutions with hundreds of specialized features and modules for Retailers (B2C) and Wholesalers (B2B). WebJaguar is based on a SaaS and Cloud Computing model, using Java, Apache, and MySQL infrastructure.

At WebJaguar, we have over 10 years of experience in delivering Ecommerce solutions and currently host over 450 customer sites. Our scaleable platform grows as you grow your business. We offer a consultative approach to meeting your Ecommerce needs and do what it takes to help you succeed. More than just a shopping cart, AdvancedEMedia is your "one stop shop" for all of your Ecommerce needs [creative, shopping cart, back office, SEO/marketing and more...]

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Zen Cart truly is the art of e-commerce; free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software. The ecommerce web site design program is being developed by a group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think ecommerce web design could be and should be done differently. Some shopping cart solutions seem to be complicated programming exercises instead of responding to users' needs, Zen Cart puts the merchants and shoppers requirements first. Similarly, other shopping cart software programs are nearly impossible to install and use without an IT degree, Zen Cart? can be installed and set-up by anyone with the most basic web site building and computer skills.

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