CS-Cart
CS-Cart is a commercial PHP shopping cart application with a focus on user-friendliness and SEO.
Advantages of using CS-Cart
- Highly Customizable – addon system and hooks allow for full customization.
- SEO friendly – emphasis has been placed on marketing and SEO.
- Fully featured – all the common ecommerce features are built in.
- Commercial Support – although not free, it helps to address critical issues rapidly.
- Affordable – licensing is very reasonable.
- Low Maintenance – Installations and upgrades are relatively easy.
Disadvantages of using CS-Cart
- High Learning Curve – learning how to develop custom addons and modify the themes can be time consuming.
- Slow – due to the architecture used, the application often has speed issues.
- Not Very Popular – meaning fewer addons and more difficult to find developers with experience.
CS-Cart is an easy-to-use and feature rich shopping cart, and although it isnt fully object oriented, it is built to faciliate extensions and addons. We advise our clients to use CS-Cart if they want to have a framework to build on, as CS-Cart’s addon system is very easy use. Unlike other ecommerce platforms such as Interspire Shopping Cart, CScart is very modular, and has features built in to allow addons and themes to built without interfering with the core application. When cscart addons are built properly, they allow for easy an upgrade route, and better maintainability.
Get Expert Help
If you are considering using CS-Cart as your ecommerce platform, talk to us today – we built many addons and websites using CS-cart, and can help you setup, customise, deploy and maintain your CS-Cart platform. For more information, or to find out how we can help you, call us today on 0203 286 8478.