-Launch Fast, Scale Vast
-Booking and Rentals
Please stop joking with us, you say we listened to the voices of the users. but you are doing irrelevant things. everyone wants v5 right now. Either fix the add-ons you have published smartly or really listen to the voice of cs-cart users.
There used to be a uservoice for cs-cart (https://cscart.uservoice.com/) - it was shut down.
There used to be a roadmap - it was shut down.
Probably cs-cart knows better what store owners want.
Building modern web apps requires alot of ressources.
I’d love to see Laravel as backend, Vue (with vue storefront) or react hedless frontend, graphql, elsticsearch, pwa , tailwind css with proper build pipeline (postcss, jit, purge) but it all requires alot of work.
So in the meantime we should all be happy that we got mobile speed improvements. It’s still slow and it still sucks but it sucks a little bit less. As ikoshkin mentioned they are working hard on cs-cart v5 and have some progress. There are no deadlines and no beta versions. The life goes faster and faster and everything around us is changing in a rapid pace, so please learn to appreciate the immutability of cs-cart.
When it comes, it comes. It’s not like it affects your business and incomes, is it? 
(irony intended)
The technologies you mentioned will almost become obsolete. but cs-cart is just starting to develop. cs-cart lags too far for everything
The technologies you mentioned will almost become obsolete. but cs-cart is just starting to develop. cs-cart lags too far for everything
You have to ask yourself though..... how much does the end-customer really care? Maybe it matters if you run a marketplace with 100.000 products but me, I haven't really updated our store in 2 years. It does the job nicely, it's fast enough, and customers are happy. I'd much rather have a very stable running version 4, than a rushed out version 5 with 100's of bugs that will cause headaches.
You have to ask yourself though..... how much does the end-customer really care? Maybe it matters if you run a marketplace with 100.000 products but me, I haven't really updated our store in 2 years. It does the job nicely, it's fast enough, and customers are happy. I'd much rather have a very stable running version 4, than a rushed out version 5 with 100's of bugs that will cause headaches.
Id say the same, I know cs gets bashed a bit but it has done very well for me.
I have the alt teams product designer which makes it even better, I have around 9000 products and when I go to variations each one of those products has approx 25 variations, I may hit issues then but we will see
You have to ask yourself though..... how much does the end-customer really care? Maybe it matters if you run a marketplace with 100.000 products but me, I haven't really updated our store in 2 years. It does the job nicely, it's fast enough, and customers are happy. I'd much rather have a very stable running version 4, than a rushed out version 5 with 100's of bugs that will cause headaches.
I agree, I prefer stable v4 instead of a rushed update. What I want to say is that the v5 version is already 2 years late.
You have to ask yourself though..... how much does the end-customer really care? Maybe it matters if you run a marketplace with 100.000 products but me, I haven't really updated our store in 2 years. It does the job nicely, it's fast enough, and customers are happy. I'd much rather have a very stable running version 4, than a rushed out version 5 with 100's of bugs that will cause headaches.
While something can already be produced to gain an edge over competitors, things that have already been tried are just emerging. if its good why whole big sites, change they site??
You have to ask yourself though..... how much does the end-customer really care? Maybe it matters if you run a marketplace with 100.000 products but me, I haven't really updated our store in 2 years. It does the job nicely, it's fast enough, and customers are happy. I'd much rather have a very stable running version 4, than a rushed out version 5 with 100's of bugs that will cause headaches.
It all depends on what kind of business you're in and how competitive the market is. In my case all of my main comptitors have faster mobile loading times and I'm frustrated that it cannot be improved because of the cs-cart architecture.
Speed is now used as a ranking factor for mobile searches so if I want to outperform my competition in seo I should outperform them also with the mobile page speed.
I was really happy when they announced that they are going to start working on it but my disappointment was huge when they announced the outcome and that they cannot do anything more because of the cs-cart architecture even if they know how to do it.
It's not like I'm saying that cs-cart is bad. In my opinion it's a really good peace of software (especially with alexbranding addons and themes). But as my business started growing it turned out that in many cases the same platform that boosted my growth is now holding back further growth. The only thing that's growing right now is my frustration :-/
Yes, CS cart has problems but it has improved so much since the early days of version 1.
I am not sure the reason why the owners don't listen carefully to their customers - but again they are getting much better...
Yes, CS cart has problems but it has improved so much since the early days of version 1.
I am not sure the reason why the owners don't listen carefully to their customers - but again they are getting much better...
Currently CsCart V4 is in a good place.
- Proper product reviews, good promotional options (bundles, cart discounts, quantity discounts, etc).
- Checkout works well-ish, although we have been using only custom checkouts for 2 years now.
- A lot of performance improvements have been made through 4.10, 4.11, and 4.12
However, there certainly are downsides, especially when it comes to how 'shipping' is handled currently. Like that code is just 100% spaghetti.
Good to finally see this feature for Common Product :
Buy a default common product:
This addon, in which the function of recommending products to the catalog for stores has been added, will be fully completed.
If the stores do not have the authority to add products. Should be able to request to add products to the catalog.