Your favorite shopping-cart system and why?

[littleman]

I am relaunching an old business and I want to upgrade my storefront/shopping-cart system.  I would like to have it be able to integrate with paypal and other payment options.  Open source would be a plus.  What are you all using, and why do you like it?

[Chunkford]

How many products and variations?
Do you need to integrate with any account packages or dispatch systems?

I've just created an ecommerce site using WP+Woocommerce.
It's OK and does what I want quickly and allows me to chop and change parts to make it do what I want.
The only issue I'm having is the caching as the plugins are a bit fickle when it comes to dynamic shopping baskets in the menus etc. I'm sure I can work it out but haven't the time just yet.

Another one is shopify. It's not open source or as flexible but by George is it easy - thanks hungrygoose for making me try it.
It's perfect if you just want to get a site up ASAP without any distractions.

Both of the above have plenty of themes and plugins lying about to get the ball rolling.

But if you want shear functionality and future proofing then grudgingly I have to say Magento.
As much as it's a hog and frustrating to use, it is the one that everyone supports and wants to integrate into their systems, saving time and money in the back.
It's also the cart that has endless supply of developers to help out if needs be.

If Magento isn't what you want, then my second choice would be opencart.
There's lots of clever people about developing into that system and if you us the VQMOD then it will allow you to edit the code to your hearts content without fear of breaking anything.

Hope that helps.

[littleman]

Thanks for those suggestions, I'll take a look at them.  This is a relatively small store that sells specialty items -- maybe up to 300 products under a dozen or so categories.  One thing I'd like is to incorporate inventory into the system, so I could keep track of reorders and such.

[Rooftop]

I'm really liking Drupal Commerce, although I have to confess that I have still not "used it in anger". Why?

*It's build the way e-commerce platforms should be: Meaning that it's basic with add-ons, rather than uttlerly bogged down in every feature that one user once requested.  Everything is also accomplished with a few core concepts so you spend your time learning principals rather than hacks.

*It's still Drupal. Yes, that does mean the learning curve from hell, but it means that you do have something open, powerful, extendable and well supported

*It's really flexible. Anything you can do in Drupal (ie pretty much anything) you can do with Drupal commerce, so you can customised to your hearts content. That also means the opportunity to get your content much more integrated with your products that most platforms allow.

* The basic "I can't be arsed to learn Drupal properly" version is also now pretty good. 

[ergophobe]

>> Drupal Commerce

It also has some decent VC money and a business model that makes it look sustainable. I'm still using Ubercart (Commerce was created by a group who had a disagreement RE long-term architecture), but will eventually switch over to Commerce.

In any case - if you don't know Drupal intimately, start here:

- http://drupal.org/project/commerce_kickstart
- http://www.drupalcommerce.org/product/commerce-kickstart

Depending on what your store does, though, a full Drupal Commerce site may be a lot more than you need and you might be better off with a hosted solution. Foxy Cart looks pretty good, but I haven't used it.

[Rooftop]

Let'a ignore the fact that that was some pretty clumsy link dropping for a moment: That infographic somehow manages to fail on both the "info" and "graphic" part of the infographic label.  It really is totally value-free.