Interspire Shopping Cart
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Interspire Shopping Cart is one of the best commercial PHP shopping carts available on the market. It comes in various versions including a hosted version known as Big Commerce, and the original stand alone Interspire Shopping Cart.
Advantages of using Interspire Shopping Cart
- Fully featured – all the common ecommerce features are built in.
- SEO friendly – a big focus placed on marketing and SEO.
- Very Flexible – all pricing structures have been catered for.
- Commercial Support – free for 12 months, and afterwards can be extended for a fee.
- Provides an API – to make integration into other applications easier.
- Easy to theme – making changes to the look and feel is very easy, thanks to the theme file structure used.
- User Friendly Backend – administration in the backend is very easy, because of the great user interface design.
- Powerful Marketing Features – the Interspire Shopping Cart team paid a lot of attention to marketing.
Disadvantages of using Interspire Shopping Cart
- No proper plugin support – support of custom modifications and addons are very limited.
- Expensive – Interspire Shopping Cart is a commercial product and costs nearly $2,000 for the ultimate edition.
- Code doesnt follow best practices – meaning duplicate coding and sql everywhere. This often makes development slow and painful.
- High Learning Curve – although theming is fairly simple, changes to the pricing system or any core area is very difficult.
- High Maintenance – Installations and upgrades are often painful and time consuming.
Interspire Shopping Cart is a powerful ecommerce shopping cart system, but has its weakness just like any other ecommerce system. We advise most of our clients to use Interspire if they dont wish to make many modifications to it, as it provides many features out of the box. Unlike other ecommerce platforms such as Magento Ecommerce, Interspire doesnt lend well to extensive modifications – it makes upgrades very difficult and costly.
Get Expert Help
If you are considering using Interspire Shopping Cart as your ecommerce platform, talk to us today – we have been working with Interspire for years, and can help you setup, customise, deploy and maintain your Interspire Shopping Cart platform. For more information, or to find out how we can help you, call us today on 0203 286 8478.