We've been looking at both AbleCommerce and, more recently, the release
candidate for OSB 3 by Visual Trends (http://www.visualtrends.com/).
Both are fully featured products, though AbleCommerce does offer a few nice
extras in its QuickStore functionality and WYSIWYG editor. OSB is priced
better for us: a flat rate of $5,000 for unlimited stores as opposed to
AbleCommerce's per store methods. We believe the OSB administration
interface is far easier to use, both for administrators and for clients.
Permissioning in OSB seems to be a lot stronger.
At the last company I worked at, we used AbleCommerce and I can say with out
a doubt that they have a great support staff. I tried contacting Visual
Trends a couple days ago to find out the answers to a few questions we had
while demoing the product and have yet to hear back from them. Not a good
sign. Of course, some of the best companies we deal with regularly have
terrible (nonexistent) sales staff but incredible support staff.
One more thing to note is that both of these products are really geared to
companies that are going to be hosting more than one store on the same
server. Though they will both work well in single store installations, you
may find that many of their features are unnecessary for what you want to
do. In which case, you may want to have a look at a product like CF Web
Store (http://www.cfwebstore.com/). It offers much less in the way of
functionality but is also a lot easier on the budget. Also, and probably as
a result of the reduced number of features, it has a pretty easy to use
administration interface.
There are quite a few shopping cart solutions similar in scope to CF Web
Store. You should be able to find most of those by searching for "cart" in
the Allaire Developer Exchange.
Benjamin S. Rogers
http://www.c4.net/
v.508.240.0051
f.508.240.0057
-----Original Message-----
From: nyon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 10:31 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: A good E-Commerce product
Hi,
Wonder if anyone can recommend a good e-commerce product which includes
invoicing issuing, basic inventory, e-mail notification .
So far, I heard about AbleCommerce. Any comments about this product ?
Thanks
Nyon
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