This service pack reduces the number of database queries on all pages and fixes bugs and issues discovered since the latest software update.

http://cs-cart.com

After two years of development and five months of beta testing we’re proud to announce the immediate release of Interspire Shopping Cart.

The product was designed and built based on direct feedback and feature requests from over 500 Interspire customers and existing store owners. On a feature-by-feature basis it has more features than any other e-commerce software on the market.

Features You Won’t Find Anywhere Else

Interspire Shopping Cart is e-commerce software that includes everything you need to start, run, promote and profit from your online store. It combines easy-to-customize store designs with marketing tools proven to significantly increase your sales.

Beautiful Store Designs Choose from multiple professionally designed store layouts. Easy Shipping & Payment Integration Integrate your store with all major providers. Sell Physical or Digital Products From t-shirts to computers to eBooks and reports. Advanced Product Variations Create variations each with their own price, stock, image, etc.

Drag & Drop Design Mode Arrange your store how you like it using just the mouse. No HTML knowledge required. Built-In Inventory Tracking Choose from multiple inventory tracking options, all tied into your order system. Extensive Use of AJAX Near instant page loads makes it easier to get things done. SendStudio and Knowledge Manager Integration Add email marketing and self-serve FAQ’s to your store.

Feedback From Existing Customers

So far the feedback from Interspire Shopping Cart customers has been great. As well as feedback from our end users, we’re also working with several larger partners who are impressed with Interspire Shopping Cart’s speed, security and integration features.

Here are some of the customer testimonials we’ve received so far:

“I started out with FrontPage and a free shopping cart and knew I would someday upgrade to more professional products. However, I never thought that I could upgrade my website AND my shopping cart with one product. Enter Interspire Shopping Cart.” - Gary Smith, PolishAndWax.com

“The shopping cart is absolutely awesome! I can’t wait to see what features come next. I really hate to tell you that we have spent many years and well more than US$75,000 customizing/using other commercially available catalogue/shopping carts, and finally developing our own custom catalogue. Nothing we have come up with compares to your offering.” - Glenn Stockton, SwingSetMall.com

“So far I have been very impressed with your shopping cart. I operate [an] online store for over 7 years now and usability in front and back end makes your cart definitely top of the line.“ - WinsTsun, Australia

“I’m excited about this product because Interspire has proven themselves over and over again year after year. I’m hard to please too!“ - Openyourstorefront.com

Learn More About Interspire Shopping Cart

Take a look at the feature tour, try the online demo, or contact us if you have any questions about Interspire Shopping Cart. We’re available by phone or email worldwide to discuss your e-commerce requirements.

Added the option to pay using payment plans for Interspire Shopping Cart. Basically instead of one upfront payment, you now have the option to pay using three monthly payments. We also offer payment plans for some of our other products, and they’re a great way to pay if you’re just starting out.

You can learn more about payment plans on the Interspire Shopping Cart pricing page.

Shopcreator has announced the launch of 2 new eCommerce software packages, designed to nurture and protect sustained online business growth. The distinct Start-Up and Retailer packages offer new, small and mid-size online retailers two scalable access points to the same hosted eCommerce platform that powers websites for the likes of BHS, EMI Music and Guardian Newspapers. Both packages are available through easy-to-manage monthly payments, and incur no set-up fee. Start-Up and Retailer cost £45 and £90 per month respectively and can be trialed for free via the Shopcreator Website at Ecommerce Software - Ecommerce Online Shopping Cart Solutions - Shopcreator.

‘Start-Up’ features functionality that includes top-sellers, banner ads, newsletter sign-up, cross-sell, ‘e-mail a friend’, Froogle Feed and Google Analytics. To help increase conversion ratios, the software is ready-integrated with all major PSPs, including WorldPay, Protx and the latest PayPal offering - Website Payments Pro.

‘Retailer’ offers an even broader range of features, plus the flexibility of full design customisation, as well as accepting a wide range of pre-integrated feeds and interfaces from third party systems. Advanced Marketing and Merchandising is provided through e-Vouchers, Product Personalisation, Customer Reviews, Registered User Discounts and Fast Order Screens. Importantly, both packages are entirely scalable, enabling merchants to increase the sophistication of their eCommerce operations, as their online business grows.

The new software is already in use with a number of online retailers that include; Waddesdon Manor, Black Essentials and The Red Arrows, with many more sites currently in build. The packages are simple to use and are designed to be self-built, with additional assistance available for design, integration and online marketing, if required. Elias Moubayed, Head of Sales and Marketing at Shopcreator, comments, “Today’s first and second generation online retailers are rightly aspiring to sustained and exponential business growth. With so many eCommerce platforms unable to support this, it’s often only a matter of months before successful online retailers have to scrap initial investments and switch providers. The Start Up and Retailer packages address this scalability issue and are designed to give every assistance to creating and protecting a successful online business.”

Start Up and Retailer are complemented by Shopcreator Enterprise (priced on application) which powers highly customised eCommerce websites for major high street retailers and mail order businesses including; BHS, Barker and Stonehouse, Guardian Newspapers and the RSPB.

For start-ups with a reasonable budget it could be worth a look.

A shopping cart that claims to be open source, but which offers fully set-up stores in exchange for a monthly payment. Some nice features but the cost could be a bit pricey for a new start-up.

www.dotshoppingcart.com

The Flash demo looks interesting but I wasn’t able to find a live demo store to see what it’s really like.

It should also be noted that it’s an ASP.NET cart so you’re going to need to use .NET hosting and the hosting they offer is on US servers which is fine for targeting the US market but it won’t do you any favours if your target market is elsewhere.

Developers of this new programme contacted me to design a
few templates..quite impressed with versions they supplied(1.71/1.72).
Still in early stages, but has some nice features not yet available
in zencart..not used OsCommerce in awhile so cannot compare.
Avactis is NOT free, but it is easy to integrate into an existing website.
Might want to give it a try via free download option.

http://www.avactis.com/

We’ve just pushed the 2.0 (Beta) release of Interspire Shopping Cart live. If you’re an existing Interspire Shopping Cart customer, you can download it from the client area straight away.

It’s e-Commerce Software Packed with Easy-To-Use Features, Fully Customizable and Even Includes Integrated Marketing Software to Help Build Your Business

Shopping cart software that’s quick and easy to set-up, customizable and includes everything you need to build a successful online store is pretty much non-existent.

There are a bunch of major e-commerce shopping cart vendors competing for your business with tempting offers of cheap hosting and easy setup. Sadly, if you choose one of them, down the line you will more than likely discover the terrible mistake you made…

You could easily waste a year or more of your life and thousands of dollars trying to build a successful business using a complicated, cumbersome system that will probably NEVER work for you.
The new beta version fixes all bugs found in Beta 1.8 and also includes two new templates.

Interspire Shopping Cart (formerly StoreSuite NX) is shopping cart software designed for small and medium businesses looking to sell anything online. It’s easy-to-use, easy to customize and has more features than any other commercially available shopping cart software. Interspire Shopping Cart is currently in beta testing with an anticipated release in March 2008.

Tutorial:

Existing Interspire Shopping Cart customers can find full upgrade instructions in the _README.txt file in the Beta 2.0 zip file, however to upgrade it’s easy:

1. Backup your existing Interspire Shopping Cart files to your local computer from your web site
2. Download the zip from the client area
3. Unzip it and upload all files over your old Beta version
4. Go to www.yourstore.com/admin and the upgrade wizard will start
5. Click one button and your store is upgraded for you

Qualiteam Software Ltd. company, a provider of e-commerce software solutions, used by tens of thousands online merchants in 111 countries worldwide, released a new version of X-Cart v 4.1.9. New release of X-Cart features further improvements in core functions, payment modules and addons.

The major changes between v4.1.8 and v4.1.9 are:

• Completely re-worked X-Magnifier add-on, see below for details.
• Improved installation wizard now suggests solutions.
• HTML meta keywords and description tags moved above JavaScript code for SEO purposes.
• Shipping Label Generator module has been updated (USPS labels retrieval, code refactoring).
• Major improvement in online payment processing security. 3DSecure transactions support enabled in the following modules:

• eSelect Plus. Transaction API
• iDEB
• Caledon
• eSec.Direct
• eSec.ReDirect
• WebCraft/Transactium
• PayFlow Pro (via PayFlow FPS)
• Authorize.NET
• PsiGate
• Netbilling
• USA ePay

Qualiteam Software announces a new version of X-Magnifier add-on, which features usability and performance improvements, including:

• A completely stretchable zoom window.
• Improved usability (scaling images with mouse scroll wheel button, “fit to page” button, thumbnail management interface in admin zone).
• Customizable zoom window (two predefined skin sets come with the add-on out-of-the-box).
• Improved performance (46% less memory needed).

X-Cart

After almost a year of the intensive development, CS-Cart version 1.3.5 is finally released! We did our best to supplement the software with the most needed features/ functions to provide store owners with the most powerful and useable tools on the market today.

Below is a list of a few of these valuable additions in CS-Cart v.1.3.5

• New XHTML compliant css-based storefront skin
• One page checkout
• New import/export API (ExIm) both with the sets of import/export patterns
• RMA addon
• Promotions addon
• Reward points addon
• Drop shipping addon
• Gift certificates addon
• Cart and wishlist content viewer
• Image verification functionality

Please visit the CHANGELOG page to see a complete lists of changes.

http://cs-cart.com/

Commerce and Kiwis are two wonderful things that just aren’t paired together often enough. ITema, Inc. has thankfully addressed this issue, at least in name, by releasing to the open source community KiweeCommerce, an e-commerce module for the MODx content management system.

KiweeCommerce, distributed under the GNU General Public License, is a full-featured e-commerce module that includes extensive product configuration and options management tools, tax and discount rate tables, and support for PayPal, Google Checkout and Authorize.Net payment gateways. The module is tightly integrated into MODx, making it easier for business owners to maintain their own product catalogs.

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MODx, an open source Web Content Management System and PHP Application Framework, is a great fit for KiweeCommerce because of the high amount of control and flexibility it offers its users. Administrators can easily configure and manage KiweeCommerce through menus in the MODx CMS Manager.

The developers of KiweeCommerce kept external application integration in mind, allowing transactions to be posted to audit tables which external applications can poll to enable integration. This means that one could set up automatic sales order posting to an accounting or customer relationship management system. This support for integration, while not essential to functionality, makes it much easier for developers to add extra functionality when so desired.

MODx Back Office with KiweeCommerce

Itema, a new player on the block, was recently founded this February. Their goal is to address the technology gap faced by small businesses, which their Blackbird ESB and KiweeCommerce module both work toward doing. They are now planning a September release of a commercial, “on-demand” software service for small business that will integrate popular applications into one complete solution.

KiweeCommerce is available for immediate download by Open Source developers at their website. It conveniently includes a self-installer which makes it easy to add it to an existing Web site. Full support is provided with the available commercial license, if desired.

http://www.cmswire.com/