 Re: Adding the shopping cart...too late? | |
Sugar,
If you have a "small" business or fewer things to sell, then you might be better off staying within BV and the PayPal format, keeping the ability do design and update your site easily with what you know how to do.
Soholaunch is also a website "design tool" but is more complicated than BV, requiring the use of templates and other hard-wired features that seem complicated to many at first. There is more ability to manage the design elements in Soho, but not as many as BV, as it is a powerful "cart" that can accept many payment platforms (merchant, PayPal, other) and has an incredible "catalog" logistics to it. Simpler and "chunkier" than osC for instance, it is still in a class by itself.....something to learn that requires a bit more attention.
osCommerce is the web's powerhouse commerce solution, and is much more a technological challenge to be comfotable using after becoming familiar with BV. Again, the use of templates and minimal knowledge of 'scripts' will be needed to unleash the features of OSC, but it is really a neat cart to utilize. It too, can be set up on the back end of a BV created site (to run just the cart, for instance), and is very capable of being configured any way you desire, and if you cannot do it yourself there is help available.
Unless you are looking for a real monster cart to handle your business, I would stick to the BV/PayPal or Soholaunch options. The whole issue is about handling transactions simply, isn't it?
A good thing about VH is the ability to support other carts not offered in your account also...you're never stuck! If you find a cart (or site) that you like, you can always bring over a system to be installed in your account to satisfy your needs!
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