If you know us or have ever read through our website content in the past you will know that we are big followers of open source applications. It's no different when it comes to E-commerce shopping cart systems. We believe the open source shopping carts are the best for Utah businesses due to their low cost and customizable framework. Right now there are 4 major players in the open source shopping cart world. They are as follows:
- Zen Cart - Great for large catalogs of products. Tons of documentation and plugin support. Overall a very popular shopping cart used by many.
- OS Commerce - A little bit old and outdated but yet still effective. This cart system has been around the longest out of the four. It currently has more plugins available than any other.
- Magento - A better looking cart system out of the box and better for multi-cart systems. This is a very new open source project so keep your eye out for this one as it appears that it will become the cart of all open source carts!
- Ubercart - perfect if you are selling only 1-100 products. This shopping cart integrates perfectly with the Drupal content management system. We highly recommend this cart system for those wanting a more simple shopping cart.
We are current and expert in all four of these systems. All four are built in the PHP programming language and the MySQL database language. It's important to note that when wanting a shopping cart system for your website to not try and reinvent the wheel. These open source applications are already built and are continuing to be built upon by web developers all over the world, combining to make one great shopping cart system. Do you want 1 or maybe 2 developers building your shopping cart? How would you feel if I told you that your shopping cart was built by 100 developers? Or maybe even 1,000? That's how it is with these open source projects. Many many developers collaborate from all over the globe to contribute to each others work, making the best application possible.
If you are looking for a shopping cart for your new or existing website than contact us today! We will give you a free custom quote based on your needs.