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Is Cs-Cart Not Considered A 'major' Shopping Cart Option?
Posted 14 March 2014 - 01:39 PM #1
I have been looking around at some other shopping cart software as I currently use CS-Cart 2.2.5, which has worked well for me ... and have been considering upgrading to CS-Cart 4.x. So instead of just blinding going to the latest CS-Cart, I figured I should look at the 'review' sites to compare CS-Cart to other current main stream shopping carts, it seems many times CS-Cart is not even comparable?
Here is one website comparing 22 carts:
http://shopping-cart....com/index.html
Another one reviewing popular carts:
http://www.ecommerce.../shopping-cart/
Here is one that does include CS-Cart:
http://shopping-cart...no1reviews.com/
Are these 'reviews' sites biased (set-up by certain shopping carts to make themselves seem like they are rated # 1)?
Are there any non-biased / trusted review sites that can truly and accurately compare shopping cart software?
Thanks!!!
Posted 14 March 2014 - 01:46 PM #2
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Posted 14 March 2014 - 02:47 PM #3
Also the community support here is amazing
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Posted 14 March 2014 - 09:15 PM #4
Before I have decided for cs-cart I have checked all available shopping carts (yes really all) softwares available, cs-cart was the way to go.
But all different shopping carts have pro and contras indeed. You need to checkout yourself.
Posted 15 March 2014 - 07:18 AM #5
I love cs-cart because i know where i can find every part of it and on his platform/framework i can develop any web application, sow far i did: deal aggregator, affiliate store, insurance website with connection to web service system witch get prices prom insurers companies and add to cart the insurance with the price send by insurer company, presentations websites, sms platform, museum 360° view and article browsing, educational webites, custom add-ons and allot of custom developments for customers and i can say that ANYTHING CAN BE DONE WITH CS-CART.
But now from what i see and following the trend, cs-cart will be delivered soon as a free solution and trying to get money from all paid services: twigmo, searchanise, saas and the rest of the services
Soon will be popular, after a client will taste it will love it, for sure will be some complains but this is part of growing, for sure cs-cart will need to do more optimizations to it in order to load faster and faster.
I hope people will see his power and will switch to it
PS: i never write sow much

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Posted 15 March 2014 - 09:07 AM #6
Hi,
I have been looking around at some other shopping cart software as I currently use CS-Cart 2.2.5, which has worked well for me ... and have been considering upgrading to CS-Cart 4.x.
We've just today migrated from 2.2.4 to Cs Cart 4. Best thing we ever did. The code is better, our pages load faster, and almost everything that was an add-on on CsC 2X is automatically included in version 4.
I too spent a lot of time looking around prior to reinvesting in CS cart (custom layout, unique business rules etc) and there really isnt anything out there at this price point that can match.
I was looking at someone German ecommerce software and spoke to my local rep. I was told they host it and its $3,000 a month. I asked the price if I want to buy the software and host it myself; $75,000 per CPU!!
Posted 21 August 2014 - 11:14 AM #7
The reason why we left CS-CART momentarily is that there were NO templates from 3rd party suppliers and it ran like a dog. Turns out it was the hosting provider more than CS-CART.
Since we switched back the templates available are amazing and things are running really smoothly. My only fear is that they will do an interspire and close down.
Hope that helps.
Posted 02 October 2014 - 05:27 PM #8
I am still a little annoyed with CS-Cart and the fact that I found bug in the live shipping rates and I had to pay CS-Cart with credits to fix the bug. This was before CS-Cart V3 was ever released when I first started using CS-Cart 2.2.x ...I think this must be the main reason why I still have not upgraded with CS-Cart.
Posted 03 October 2014 - 12:38 AM #9
The community here is great and growing.
Posted 05 October 2014 - 04:54 AM #10
I believe in the potential of this application that has a lot of possibilities.
It is also the best of the web community, modest, friendly, available and more..
Sorry for my bad english ( google translatte )
4.xx - www.france-savon.com je viens de le reprendre à zero .. il est donc en cours
Posted 05 October 2014 - 08:15 PM #11
1) The consumer side (in the case the merchant)
2) The 3rd party addon/modification side
They do a pretty good job with #1 but have been horrible with #2 for the full time I've been involved (beta of V2). There are always surprises and it takes continual investment to keep "products" afloat between versions. Information has improved but is still lacking. Defect tracking is a joke.
Until these shortfalls can be addressed, cs-cart will lack useful extensions/integrations and without them, will continue to be a bit-player in the market.
Support for N. America also needs to improve. 24hr delay with responses of "we'll get back to you when we have time" is unacceptable.. It can take a week or more to get an issue addressed. If it's fatal, a merchant could go out of business as a result.
On the plus side of support, they are patient, trustworthy and courteous.
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Posted 08 October 2014 - 01:24 AM #12
Support for N. America also needs to improve. 24hr delay with responses of "we'll get back to you when we have time" is unacceptable.. It can take a week or more to get an issue addressed. If it's fatal, a merchant could go out of business as a result.
On the plus side of support, they are patient, trustworthy and courteous.
That's it! One of the reasons of hesitance with my on upgrading to the latest CS-Cart is just that. I always felt that the USPS shipping module is lacking...for instance many times the USPS itself will make changes to their service names, and it will always mess up the shipping module and it took many days for a simple fix to come out from CS-Cart. Just leaves me a feeling of possibly the CS-Cart staff does not really care that a major issue came up but since it in the USA, then they will fix whenever they get a chance. I could be wrong and they do that for everyone/problem that comes up.
Is CS-Cart big in the USA, or is it more popular in other countries? If there is a little customers in the USA compared to other countries around the globe, then this could explain why USA type problems are slower to get addressed?
Posted 08 October 2014 - 06:56 AM #13
Cscart is simply the best choice, on my opinion.

Posted 08 October 2014 - 10:41 PM #14
cs-cart distinguishes itself from the rest by it's multi-lingual capabilities. For Europe and all international businesses, multi-lingual is a must.
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Posted 09 October 2014 - 11:01 AM #15

Posted 09 October 2014 - 08:54 PM #16
Posted 10 October 2014 - 07:20 AM #17
Before worked with some other shopping carts, also x-cart, the big adversair.
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Posted 15 October 2014 - 06:49 AM #19
PHP guru. There is no way I would recommend it for a businessman who
needs to focus on business and not waste hours and days trying to 'fix'
aspects by searching forums because 'support' tends to want money for
assistance that should be freely available but is becoming increasingly
difficult to find in the tangled mess euphemistically known as a Knowledge
Base. I will go as far as to say that if you follow some knowledge Base articles
then you will almost certainly go wrong.
I don't doubt it's a great piece of software but the focus is purely on new bells
and whistles where most of the time the bells don't ring true and the whistles
have sand in them.
It's such a shame because if the developers spared some time to make existing
carts more reliable they would have a world leading product on their hands.
Most users just don't need all these 'features' and just want a robust and fast
cart with a secure checkout.
It is great value if you can find 'free' help, otherwise solutions like Volusion
and Big Commerce, although appearing to cost more, are relative bargains
once you factor in time lost trying to get CS-Cart working 'as it promises to'.
Again, IF you are well versed in PHP I wouldn't hesitate to recommend CS-Cart.
If you are not then use their free version for a while and wait for CS-Cart's SAAS
Posted 12 December 2014 - 08:47 AM #20
Yes CS-Cart is the best value for money around if you happen to be part
PHP guru.
Not anymore since CS-Cart SaaS, i.e. Merchium, is now available

Konstantin Molchanov,
CS-Cart Architect Team
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