ASP.net Shopping Cart Recommendations

**jaimalchohan** · 22nd February 2006, 02:30 PM

Can anbody recommend a good (i.e. easy to install, configure and customise the UI) asp.net shopping cart? Free is preferable, but something tht costs only a little (one off payment) will also work. Thanks

**jaimalchohan** · 23rd February 2006, 10:11 PM

After spending a lot of time look about, finally I think I found what I might be looking for:

http://www.aspdotnetstorefront.com/default.aspx

This seems feature packed, the guys are on the top of their game, being verified by visa and mastercard for having secure code, SQL 2005, asp.2.0, a whole load of features, vb.net or C# version, full source code included, and reasonably priced: £399 for everything a small store would want, a then some.

Hopefully should have no problems running on RFH

**RFH Customer: cswd** · 24th February 2006, 10:01 AM

www.commercestarterkit.org if you want something free

-or-

I'll build you a custom cart starting at around £8000.

**jaimalchohan** · 24th February 2006, 04:50 PM

Originally Posted by cswd

www.commercestarterkit.org if you want something free

-or-

I'll build you a custom cart starting at around £8000.

Hehe, ill stick with the one I mentioned, its cheap (Ill charge my client ~£1500 for the cart) and looks easy, tho ive yet to test it out, recommendation on other forums are good too.

Lol even I could build my own cart, but its too much time to invest atm, plus plenty of other great products out there,

**RFH Customer: cswd** · 24th February 2006, 09:02 PM

Might have a look at that one. Ironically the people I work for just sold a large retail chain an ecommerce store for around the £100k mark!

**jaimalchohan** · 25th February 2006, 06:28 PM

Originally Posted by cswd

Might have a look at that one. Ironically the people I work for just sold a large retail chain an ecommerce store for around the £100k mark!

I can understand that, for that kinda data processing and warehousing, you need some really cleaver coding, but not if you plan on only selling 100-500 items

**RFH Customer: cswd** · 26th February 2006, 10:25 AM

I think they need less clever code. The entire thing is built with design patterns but it really obfuscates how the thing works. It is so complicated to build and deploy and the UI is even a million times simpler than oscommerce's! All it does is pump XML documents through biztalk/commerce server to the company's back end AS400 and display a product catalog.

They went for complete component reusability but it takes 4 people 3 months to build it and customise it. You could build something custom in about a month with one developer that has the same functionality and is faster!

It's the typical Microsoft "product bloatware" pushing that happens with corporations these days.

Big software is not beautiful software!