e-commerce again www.actinic.co.uk

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Hi guys. I'm still researching my web site that im going to make or have made. www.actinic.co.uk have been recomended several times, what is everyone elses view on them.

Lew

[Plotloss]

For ecommerce sites www.magentocommerce.com is practically unbeatable.

[jacobyte]

Before you choose a system, do your homework: make sure you have done flowcharts of what you want the user experience and back-end management to be. You might find that your business model has different product types, necessitating different clickthrough routes, and therefore some off-the-shelf cart systems may not be flexible enough to meet your requirements.

You might end up finding that you need something bespoke. But more often than not you should be OK with something like Actinic.

[Deano_Deano]

We use Actinic and are currently looking at moving away from it. It is very expensive compared to a lot of shopping carts and missing a few critical features (online user accounts for example that users can register themselves). I think the cart is a bit behind with the times. I also found designing a site from scratch a lot more difficult than any other carts (In my opinion there are not a lot of good looking Actinic websites out there, this could possibly be a reason).

We are currently looking at Cube Cart.

[WTD]

I'd thoroughly reccomend tradingeye http://www.tradingeye.com/department/shopbuilder-s... <- this is the showcase, there is an excellent support forum, the support guys are very very good and its designed with the highest levels of web standards compliance
[quote]Trading Eye is a web standards compliant shopping cart & CMS built from the ground up with web accessibility and SEO in mind.
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There is a brand new version v6 coming out this month, so poss wait until that, but I've only ever heard good things about this cart, and after having used it for a year, will be moving over to the v6 when its available..

[rich1231]

Been using Cubecart for a while but as plotters says.. magento is our target platform now

[The Moose]

have used Actinic before.

not the best in the world, also not the easiest or most simple to work out how the hell it works and if you use it, you WILL spend time cursing the day you bought their software!

although it has some ok features too!!

i tend to build and work with bespoke carts - just my preference!!

cheers

the moose

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Thank you everyone. I'm a bit stressed at the min because im so worried about making a mistake. Thanks for everyones advice. I do appreciate it. Now i just hope i do the right thing and spend the money wisely.

Lew