What is the best Shopping Cart for today's E-Commerce requirements? | MSc research

Thursday, 08 October 2009 15:04 Written by Grant Melrose

I am sure its totally coincidental, but E-Commerce Design is trending in Twitter right now.

There are many shopping carts to choose from. But which is the best one for today's e-Commerce requirements?

What are the important features of a shopping cart?
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) features?
Attractive templates?
User generated reviews, rating and feedback?
Page load speed?
Ease of use for the buyer?
Ease of use for the shop owner?
Flexibility / extendibility for the developer?
Single product vs product catalogue?

You may wish to look at:

• osCommerce
• Magento
• VirtueMart - shopping cart module for the Joomla Content Management System
• Concrete5 eCommerce module
• PayPal
• CubeCart
• Zen Cart
• PrestaShop

... I'm sure there are many others to choose from.

You may wish to perform live case studies with local Midlands, UK based companies. Or you may wish to design an experiment to demonstrate how each shopping cart performs?

Again, only technical and business minds need apply from the Warwick WMG MSc pool.