A good ecommerce alternative to Magento?

Posted by delboud on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by delboud
Published on 2010-04-22T17:50:05Z Indexed on 2010/04/22 17:53 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 165

Filed under:

ecommerce

|

cms

|

php

I been dealing with Magneto for the last 6 months now and its a real headache, always some type of error, slow, bloated, dead community and overly complex to customize (and im a designer...)

I look at others like zencart but seem kinda dated compared to magento, but are their any other solutions to replace magento thats better and with a good online community?

the main selling points im looking for are configurable items (as in options for products), good online community and not so hard to customize or a nice amount of templates available.

has to be free and hopefully open source

and if it helps this is for a custom car accessories store

© Stack Overflow or respective owner

Related posts about ecommerce

Ecommerce Design: Save Money on Stock Photos

as seen on Internet.com - Search for 'Internet.com'
Andrew Lock's latest webisode features a new photo site could save you a bundle, affordable services to help you transfer and store large files and restaurant chain's marketing tip that you can apply to your e-tail biz. >>> More
Marketing Tools: Set Up An Ecommerce Blog

as seen on Internet.com - Search for 'Internet.com'
Blogging is a great way to drive traffic to your site, and we've found a great Web resource to set up a professional blog for you. Plus, an emarketing site to help you get interviewed on TV and radio. >>> More
Ecommerce Design: 5 Common Mistakes

as seen on Internet.com - Search for 'Internet.com'
Helen Bradley looks at  and shows you how to avoid  five small business Web design mistakes that are guaranteed to turn customers away. >>> More
Ecommerce Marketing: How to Make Web Forms for Free

as seen on Internet.com - Search for 'Internet.com'
Check out this free service that lets you build Web forms for your small business ecommerce site. Plus, how you use Google Alerts and a streaming audio tool. >>> More
Are eCommerce platforms worth it for large scale systems?

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
My company and I are building a new system for a relatively large client. We are going to be replacing their entire system, which includes some eCommerce aspects to it among many other things. It is not a typical public shopping site, and there are many things about the system (both back end and front… >>> More

Related posts about cms

Transitioning from Oracle based CMS to MySQL based CMS

as seen on Programmers - Search for 'Programmers'
We're looking at a replacement for our CMS which runs on Oracle. The new CMSes that we've looked at can in theory run on Oracle, but most of the vendor's installs run off of MySQL vendor supports install of their CMS on MySQL, and a "theoretical" install on Oracle the vendor's dev shops use MySQL none… >>> More
Upgraded Linux, now CMS Made Simple is spewing errors

as seen on Pro Webmasters - Search for 'Pro Webmasters'
I upgraded my host from Debian Lenny to Debian Squeeze, and now my CMS Made Simple site is spewing PHP errors all over the screen. I thought I'd upgrade the CMS because I haven't done so in a while, but Google Chrome tells me that the CMS Made Simple site is infested with malware. What are my options… >>> More
Version control a content management system?

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
I have the following directory structure in the CMS application we have written: /application /modules /cms /filemanager /block /pages /sitemap /youtube /rss /skin /backend /default /css /js /images /frontend /default … >>> More
Django CMS - not able to upload images through cmsplugin_filer_image

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
i have a problem with a local installation on django cms 2.3.3: i've installed it trough pip, in a separated virtualenv. next i followed the tutorial for settings.py configuration, i started the server. Then in the admin i created an page (home), and i've tried to add an image in the placeholder through… >>> More
Why to build own CMS?

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
On my first job interview, I was asked why did I build my own CMS? Why not to use one of existing CMS, Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal...? At first, I was stunned. I couldn't immediately recall all of my reasons for building my own CMS, but this was definitely one of the main reasons: It's my code and if… >>> More