We are an Able Commerce customer and paid the "big bucks" for the source
code version.
The product is very powerful but not user friendly and more than a little
obfuscated. If you're having trouble with one store you can imagine our
fun developing and hosting multiple sites at once.
I recently discovered an Able Commerce knock-off called CFWebstore which
might be a much better solution for smaller stores.
CFWebstore costs $150, less in quantities. http://www.cfwebstore.com
I don't know anything about the product but the price is definitely right.
$150 for full source code. At that price you can afford to do some
bug fixing.
We're thinking about giving our customers the choice of which software
they want us to use for their site.
--Bill
At 02:44 PM 4/16/00 , you wrote:
>I am only about 4 months into Cold Fusion. Able is the first CF store package for me
>to use. I have
>been very frustrated with it's "Wizards" mostly due to a lack or non-integration of
>help files.
>Figuring out how to customize something is mostly a 'try and see what happens'
>process. Their
>documentation is not easily accessible as far as trying to find specifically what you
>want to do. I
>started with the standard version and was too limited, so I had to upgrade to the
>open source. I'm
>not saying they do this, but it almost seems that they limit what you can do just so
>you'll have to
>pay another $1500 for open source. I'm just starting to get comfortable with it and
>would probably
>use it again since I would be much more familiar with it the next time around. The
>backend is very
>solid and with my limited experience with CF I wouldn't even want to try to build
>everything the
>program does.
>
>If I were able to give Able some advice, it would be to add a help button to every
>page of the admin
>section. Hitting the button would load a pop up window with help that is specific to
>where you are
>in the program. This would have saved me hours in learning it... and having to call
>support to
>figure it out.
>
>
>Chris Giminez
>Owner - Cyber Scriber Web Site Design
>831-728-4469
>ICQ# 2628000
>
>
>
>
> > I have tried to get Able Commerce which is built on Cold Fusion templates
> > up and running as an e-commerce solution. Problem is the program seems so
> > utterly rigid in deployment that there's no way to get into the pages to
> > customize the look.
> >
> > The basic look made by Able Commerce is so ugly that the resulting pages
> > make one desire to throw up. Hence changing the look is critical, yet
> > apparently impossible when you go to the editing web pages section.
> >
> > Is Able Commerce truly an impossible program to work with and could anyone
> > for the love of God please recommend something more user friendly and
> > actually usable. We've lost a good two weeks messing around with Able
> > Commerce, it has all in all been a highly frustrating experience.
> >
> > Would appreciate a reference to any other shopping cart e-commerce solution.
> >
> >
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