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I am looking for sources for consumer report type information on different off-the-shelf shopping cart systems like Miva, ShopSite, osCommerce and others.  I am looking for things like feature comparisons, system requirements, ease of use, popularity rankings and the other decision type information.  Has anyone come across this type of information anywhere on the web that seems accurate?

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Bert at Harvey Software, Inc.
Multi-Carrier Shipping Software and Supply Chain Solutions for Internet Retailers

Also a provider of free shipping information and resources at Harvey Software`s Parcel Shipping Blog along with free tracking solutions at TrackingPage.com...

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Roland, this is great thanks!  Which cart do you think more businesses use?

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Bert at Harvey Software, Inc.
Multi-Carrier Shipping Software and Supply Chain Solutions for Internet Retailers

Also a provider of free shipping information and resources at Harvey Software`s Parcel Shipping Blog along with free tracking solutions at TrackingPage.com...

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This seems to be a product where there are several players and not many overwhelming leaders.  I wonder why?  This feels to me to be an industry that is still in market innovation and not maturity.  But usually there are some initial stand outs in most emerging markets.  Maybe it is because so many large companies doing their own thing.

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Bert at Harvey Software, Inc.
Multi-Carrier Shipping Software and Supply Chain Solutions for Internet Retailers

Also a provider of free shipping information and resources at Harvey Software`s Parcel Shipping Blog along with free tracking solutions at TrackingPage.com...

Gee, here we go again ... and here I go again  ... LOL ...

 

Bert, contact Vince Creazzo at Spads.com, http://spads.com . His email you can use is sales@spads.com .

The AppleCart Shopping Cart and DeskTop Database Management System is top notch. Just as Beth at BoxerHaus , http://boxerhaus.com . Her email is beth@boxerhaus.com

Thank you,  I will add them to my list to review.  BlondieBlue do you use one of these systems?

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Bert at Harvey Software, Inc.
Multi-Carrier Shipping Software and Supply Chain Solutions for Internet Retailers

Also a provider of free shipping information and resources at Harvey Software`s Parcel Shipping Blog along with free tracking solutions at TrackingPage.com...

Good points.  Thanks!

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Bert at Harvey Software, Inc.
Multi-Carrier Shipping Software and Supply Chain Solutions for Internet Retailers

Also a provider of free shipping information and resources at Harvey Software`s Parcel Shipping Blog along with free tracking solutions at TrackingPage.com...

I tried os commerce but without the ability to write code it was pretty useless to me. Most people, small businesses like myself are switching to full service systems like yahoo small business and pagebuzz because the shopping carts offer full support.

For a big company, they can afford to pay a programmer to fiddle with the open source code. But it is cost prohibitive for me. I ended up with the pagebuz cart because I need support and something that works without constantly paying some craigslist advertised programmer to make changes.

I originally had a programmer install os commerce but then I was left with no support and the webmaster that installed it did not know anything about it. He charged me $500 to install it and then I had to hire other people to show me how to use it.