turnkey ecom hosting?

[Charles McIntyre]

I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations for a hosted turnkey
ecommerce solution? I've checked out volution, bigcommerce, shopify and
yahoo stores. So far, shopify seems the most straight-forward and I've
thrown together a site there in a couple hours, but I'd like to get some
input before I jump in totally.

I need a blog, some pages, product pages, JS capability at a minimum.

Thanks!!!

Charles

[Shane Pearlman]

wordpress with wp shopp plugin.

-S

Shane Pearlman
831.345.7033
@justlikeair

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Go with Shopify, they know what they're doing.

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[Charles]

Thanks Shane!

hosted on wordpress.com or another hosting company?

C

[Chris Burbridge]

I'll just say that I had heard that WP-Ecommerce was buggy, and I did try to use it for a client a few months back, because I thought "they just needed something simple;" and it turned out that they did, indeed, have some bugs there. So that took me back to my old philosophy, as stated earlier in this thread, that e-commerce is just so darn complex, that it should be left to people who are really specializing it, and even then [after all, the WP-Ecommerce people are definitely specializing in it], you need to "vet" each company and solution thoroughly.

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[Art Bobroskie]

I agree with Chris that a real ecommerce shopping cart is complex . Payment gateways, security, PCI compliance,  shipping,  inventory control, product attributes, discount codes, etc. etc. 

On the other hand if you are planning on selling a dozen or so products and you don't really need a shopping cart then the best way is probably to just add Paypal Buy Now buttons to your product pages. Paypal takes care the payment and you can even print USPS Priority labels from their site. Google checkout offers a similar service.

From the Paypal site:

Buy Now Buttons

What is it?
When you use PayPal's Buy Now Buttons, you can sell individual items from your website, or even using a link in an email! Buy Now Buttons is a low–cost way for you to accept credit card and bank account payments, and can be fully integrated with your website in a few easy steps.

What are the benefits?
Save time and money with PayPal's hassle–free Buy Now Buttons:

• Easy to implement – no CGI scripting necessary

• No up–front costs – you'll have the same low fee schedule used when you receive other PayPal payments

• Sell with ease – PayPal maintains detailed transaction records on our website

• Improve buyer experience – with customizable buttons and secure payments, happy customers become repeat customers

--artbobo

[James Lafferty]

I'll second the vote against WP Ecommerce.

J.

On Jun 11, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Chris Burbridge wrote:

[Chris Burbridge]

Another one I would like to look into (besides Shopify) is Foxy Cart (http://www.foxycart.com/).

It's used by Chris Coyer, of CSS Tricks, and I really like him. He's really smart.

It features fully-customizable, modern CSS+HTML, and lots of stuff.

[Mike Brogan]

I've used foxycart. It's pretty sweet and the support is great. Shopsite (disclaimer: my employer, Cruzio, offers Shopsite) is also good too. I use it to power my class registrations, and we have all sorts of customers using it to sell all kinds of stuff.

Thanks,

Mike

[Mary Edith Ingraham]

Chiming on Foxycart:  FoxyCart realizes  a shopping cart can't be everything to everybody.  So they don't try to be.  They provide a feed of complete transaction details, but do not attempt to keep a customer database for you.  The feed is xml; a programmer can construct the database to a client's specification.

This is good, in my book.

Mary Edith

[Shane Pearlman]

Agreed. I specifically meant wp shopp. When I asked around it is the most stable of the shopping cart plugins. 

-S

Shane Pearlman

831.345.7033

@justlikeair

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[James Lafferty]

I'm actually looking at maybe migrating a client who was set up on WP E-Commerce over to Shopp... Have you and Peter actually set anyone up on Shopp, or are you going on other recommendations?

Cheers,

James

[Peter Chester]

Our Art Director Reid has set up Shopp a few times and has turned us on to it.  we're starting to explore it for S&P projects now.  They also were very active at thte last Word Camp and made a lot of noise about moving to wordpress 3.0 custom post architecture.

-p

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[Jason Wehmhoener]

Please excuse the threadjack, but if anyone here is familiar with the Carrington theme and can compare/contrast with 3.0 custom post types I'd be thrilled to hear it. Feel free to reply offlist if you prefer.

-j

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[James Lafferty]

Thanks so much, Peter!

[Chris Burbridge]

To add to this old thread, per WordPress shopping carts

This guy highly recommends a new one called PHPurchase (also WordPress plugin), mentions he likes Shopp, and implies that he also dislikes wp-Ecommerce (which adds credibility in my eyes).

http://mondaybynoon.com/2010/08/09/wordpress-custom-post-types-phpurchase-cart-part-1/

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[Todd Schafer]

Chris, 

Thanks for sharing. I have also been frustrated by this situation. Wordpress is so flexible that there ought to be some sort of viable solution.

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[Sean Tario]

Anyone else hear BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY by reading through this thread?

 

Which one of you can create a viable solution?  … how much could you charge for it?

 

… just a thought.

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[Chris Burbridge]

Yeah, 'cept IMHO shopping carts are soooo complex. I am just glad if the right [read: other] person takes it on :-)

[Jonty]

I've feel that Wordpress to be a little light weight for a shopping
cart and I don't like the its templating system. Though I have seen wp
shop sites that did the job.
We used to use ZenCart, now we use Joomla/Virtuemart with results like
this: http://teepeecreepers.com/
Have also worked with IonCart, Fortune3 and a couple others.
There was something called I think Freeway that looked interesting.
And Magento is popular, but from what I've read/seen is a bit slow.
There are a dozen shopping carts for every day of the week. So, I
think there is a bit too much market saturation for there to be a big
opportunity.
Though I was playing with the idea a few years ago of making an open
source shopping cart more complete (seo fixes, template tweaks,
lightbox photos, etc.) and selling the more complete +plus version
along with a tutorial. I actually gave a proposal for a joint venture
to one of the local isp's, but they didn't have the chutzpa and I just
let it sit. If anyone has any related Ideas, I'd be interested.