Lately I have noticed a growing number of comments complaining about BigCommerce‘s less than impressive support. It’s not a problem I have had but none the less I thought I would start 2012 by looking at alternatives to BigCommerce. Ashop Commerce has been around for about a decade, has Australian roots and is priced competitively [...]
Shopping Cart Reviews
Ashop Commerce First Look Review
Friday, January 27th, 2012Six Second Shopping Cart Reviews
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012If you just want to compare the carts on what they will cost you per year check out my Shopping Cart Pricing Comparison. Welcome to 2012 and an updated list of to the point bite sized shopping cart reviews to help you filter out the best shopping carts from the nonsense. If it saves you time, [...]
Alternatives to BigCommerce
Monday, January 9th, 2012Unhappy with BigCommerce? Not getting the support you need? Heres a list of 5 alternatives to BigCommerce is you need to find an alternative shopping cart to the problems with BigCommerce CoreCommerce Almost identical, occasionally cheaper. CoreCommerce supports 99% of BigCommerce features, payment gateways and shopping methods. It also has one of the best product [...]
Shopify Review
Saturday, January 7th, 2012I have always promised a short review of Shopify so I thought I would start the year by actually delivering it. Prepare to spend a little more than other carts to use Shopify. That will probably be your only complaint though. It is the designer and developers choice of shopping cart software because of how easy it is to [...]
Best Shopping Cart (2012 Edition)
Saturday, January 7th, 2012It’s that time of the year again. Down with the 2011 version and up with the 2012 version of which shopping cart is best. As always this is my list and based on the last 12 months developing and optimising shopping carts so you need to take it as gospel. Feel free to use the comments below [...]
AmeriCommerce Review
Saturday, July 2nd, 2011Right off the bat let me say I am impressed with AmeriCommerce. It looks like programmers created it (it’s pretty ugly), but it runs like programmers created it, fast and feature rich. I didn’t know what to expect from AmeriCommerce when I first started developing around them; so I have made this review more detailed [...]
3dCart Review
Monday, February 7th, 2011I have been looking into 3d Cart for a while now and slowly poking around in it to get a feel for it. It is a very clean and polished interface and some nice design work so I had high hopes for it. Overall it is not a bad cart, the pricing is good and the basic feature [...]
CoreCommerce vs BigCommerce
Sunday, February 6th, 2011For more in this series of see Big Commerce vs Shopify or CoreCommerce vs BigCommerce It has taken the best part of 8 months to get this comparison together. BigCommerce and CoreCommerce have both grown in features so quickly and prolifically in the last 12 months, that every time I wrote this comparison I was needing to edit it [...]
Shopping Cart Pricing
Monday, January 17th, 2011Sorted from cheapest to most expensive per year – be aware that Shopify does charge a 2%transaction fee so the yearly cost in the table is only a fraction of what you will actually have to pay – don’t say I didn’t tell you. Cart Monthly Setup SSL2 Transaction Yearly Highwire $14.95 0 $49* – [...]
The Cheapest Shopping Cart
Friday, July 16th, 2010Not a day has gone by in the last 6 months when I haven’t been asked which shopping cart is the cheapest. I know money is tight, but cost is the single worst way to select your e-commerce platform. None the less, people can’t get passed it and I was constantly checking pricing pages to [...]
