Comments on: Expert advice on selecting a shopping cart

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 18 May 2011 09:27:34 +0000

I am still shopping around for a cart. I got burned on my first choice after researching for months. I want to try BigCommerce but all of the reviews make me nervous. I have tried MagentoGo and it seems wonderful but they have left my store down for almost two days now so not sure I will be going with them. It could be that I am on a free trial and they are focusing on paying customers..I don’t know..but do you have any experience with them?

By: Keith Winter

Keith Winter — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:08:42 +0000

I contacted inspire and they said their shopping cart does not support multiple stores with one backend, so I assume BigCommerce does not as it is one of their products as well which is disappointing. Would you suggest another ecommerce system if we need multi store capability?

By: jasmin

jasmin — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:13:41 +0000

Very nice article! Thanks for sharing it with us!

By: andrew

andrew — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:30:16 +0000

Thank you so much Lucy that is very sweet of you. Glad you are finding them useful, don’t forget to pop back as you need more information and like us on Facebook.

Best of luck with ecommerce, I hope it is a roaring success for you

Andrew

By: Lucy

Lucy — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:26:55 +0000

Hi Andrew,

I just want to thank you for all your posts on this topic.

I have just discovered them and they are hands down the most comprehensive and helpful free advice I have found.
I am looking to start an e-commerce site to help raise funds to move, but can grow after I move.

You have helped me so much, I can’t thank you enough.

Lucy

By: Barb Pattison

Barb Pattison — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:29:49 +0000

I am with Big Commerce and it is certainly not a perfect cart, but, from reading your posts, I still think it is the best choice for me.
There are little things I’ve discovered since signing up that I could never have anticipated during the free trial. If I could somehow solve them, I’d be a happy camper. Such things as the notification that is sent to me when an order is placed not containing the order information, when it clearly is supposed to, and it doesn’t send the customer name, address, etc. to my merchant account. Big Commerce help guy claims it is the integration with this particular merchant account company that is the problem. That may be, but I wish Big Commerce would step up and solve the problem.
Other things about Big Commerce, I am totally impressed with.
So, just like any other cart, it’s not perfect. But I’m looking forward to the new upgrade.

By: Simon Elleway

Simon Elleway — Wed, 19 May 2010 02:54:36 +0000

Great post Andrew. Some very valuable information in there to guide an important selection of cart.
Cheers and thanks,
Simon