On Nov 28, 8:50 am, Alex Cooper <[email protected]> wrote: > The best platform I've ever seen, by a country > mile:http://businesscatalyst.com/Run by Adobe. > > Shopping cart, CMS, customer database, analytics, the works. It costs a > couple of extra dollars per month, but I reckon it's worth every penny.
I find this hard to believe - coming from a Rails developer. Make sure you actually play with the shopping cart of a Business Catalyst site, including the shipping options before signing up. I had to get a guy to do some jQuery hacking with the UI just to make it useable. It has improved slowly since Adobe took over, but they haven't addressed its real problems yet. I find it to be a mile wide and an inch deep - the feature list covers a lot of things, but few of them work very well. eg. when someone writes a comment on my blog - I get an email to notify me, but I just can't find the full comment to read in the Business Catalyst backend. For a simple embeddable cart I use and like http://mals-e.com. Check out its 8 different ways of calculating shipping, including a http callback. Thats what Business Catalyst needs. For a broader solution http://bigcommerce.com is looking very good, but I'm waiting for their new API before using it. Shopify looks wonderful but isn't very useable from Australia due to shipping options again. Gary -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
