[dmaui]

Over the years I've used the following carts for clients:

VPASP
JSHOP
VIART

I've got a new client who needs a cart and cms, but none of these is the "perfect" solution, for the following reasons:

VPASP - not really even considering it, as it isn't close IMO to either Jshop or Viart for features

JSHOP - would be hands down my choice, but it doesn't have decent CMS

VIART - would also jump at this one, incredibly feature rich, but the templates and coding are stuck in the table-ridden dark ages

Can anyone suggest that third option that I haven't seen yet?

Other considerations:
My client would be willing to spend up to 1,000USD for the license.
I don't want to spend my life learning the code - it should be easy to install and customize.
I am not ready to go with Magento yet, so please don't offer that option, or try to persuade me.
Needs to at least export to Quickbooks.

Thanks for your responses!

[BritZin]

I've sent you a PM.

[SEOLover]

Hi,

I know www.cs-cart.com have an export to Quickbooks option, might be having a look at them to see if that is more what you are after.

[lazytycoon]

how many products and what type of CMS?

[BlueDreamer]

Welcome to WDF!

Viart's default templates maybe table ridden but can't you just rewrite them? Same goes if they're got any tables inside scripts.

[tigerlabs]

Zen-Cart is good.

[dmaui]

bluedreamer, on Jan 16 2009, 15:30, said:

Welcome to WDF!

Viart's default templates maybe table ridden but can't you just rewrite them? Same goes if they're got any tables inside scripts.

Thanks for the welcome. Yes, and yes, it's in both script and templates, and I have some suspicions that some of their code is linked to the table tags somehow. I could go through and convert it all to CSS, but the fact that it's sometimes in script leads to a painful upgrade experience.

I may try stripping VIART and making it CSS compliant at some point, but if there's something already out there that is truly CSS and standards compliant, I'd rather do that than rip apart templates and script to get what I want.

[dmaui]

andymayhem, on Jan 16 2009, 13:27, said:

how many products and what type of CMS?

Probably under 200 products. We've also discussed, as they are a training provider, of using the cart for registration as well, so I want something with lots of flexibility, like Jshop has.

As for CMS, it doesn't have to be complex, but I need them to be able to create pages and assign them to categories/navigation themselves, rather than needing me to do that.

[dmaui]

SLGWN2P, on Jan 16 2009, 13:22, said:

I've sent you a PM.

Thanks. I should clarify that I'm not looking for someone to build the perfect cart for me, I really think there is something out there that would work without much tweaking, I've just not found it yet.

[bocaj]

Checkout magento, it's pretty sick, with lots of support and development.... just check out the roadmap.

Alot of features are now integrated, such as digital downloads (a highly demanded feature).

As far as templates go, it's unbelievably customisable, and you can set certain templates to show during certain periods (i.e christmas, easter) and then have different templates for different areas of the site.

It's cms is excellent too.

I'd check it out if i were you (:

[BlueDreamer]

dmaui, on Jan 16 2009, 21:24, said:

Probably under 200 products. We've also discussed, as they are a training provider, of using the cart for registration as well, so I want something with lots of flexibility, like Jshop has.

As for CMS, it doesn't have to be complex, but I need them to be able to create pages and assign them to categories/navigation themselves, rather than needing me to do that.

Does the CMS need to be integrate with the cart? I'm assuming it does. It's a pity Jshop 2.5 isn't out soon as they're integrating a mini CMS into it to replace the current limited pages functionality.

[dmaui]

bluedreamer, on Jan 16 2009, 19:30, said:

Does the CMS need to be integrate with the cart? I'm assuming it does. It's a pity Jshop 2.5 isn't out soon as they're integrating a mini CMS into it to replace the current limited pages functionality.

Thanks for pointing that out. Last post I saw was February/March, which actually might work, if I can get a look at the beta files before that.

However, in case that doesn't happen as fast as it is scheduled, I would like a fall back. CS-Cart looks good. Has anyone used both CS and Jshop, and if so, how do they compare?

[BritZin]

Ok No Problem!