ecommerce software

Anyone recommend any ecommerce software that is compatible w/ quickbooks enterprise v.7? Goals to easily update webstore info/products/pricing etc... Integrated billing/shipping. I want an easy system to input data for web sales and update info in one place. Would also be interested in software to manage affiliate marketing as well.

Thanks!

there are a couple that integrate, some dont do a good job. There are also companies that make bridge software as well. I would look at the e-com software as priority and integration secondary

I recommend Magento.. not sure how it integrates with quickbooks, but I agree with LightHouse. Start lean, unless you are trying to upgrade from an established ecommerce site

Thanks! This is a new setup so any info on lessons learned would be helpful.

Quickbooks site has these listed:

PDG ecommerce
IAM
Zoovy
ProductCart Synchronizer
Storefront 7.0
godaddy shopping cart
POS2Net
AaaTex
ProStores

Depending on how savvy you are with comptuers, you can try out Zen Cart, and OSCommerce. Both have plug ins for Quickbooks.

Magento has an after market plugin that you have to pay for. i have not used it yet but its supossed to be pretty good.


And the plug ins are horrible, the do not support multiple attributes and genreally dont do very good adding new items or tables in accounts in QB's database. they are some pay for ones as well but they all seemed lackluster when i tried them

to be totally honest here:

I think you will find yourself spending a hundred hours trying to set up the store, so focus on setting one up, than plug-ins for quickbooks. Unless you've installed and got a store running before; it's better to walk first then run.

If you are starting a new store and it's going to be fairly small <100 products, I would just get a decent cart package for a few hundred bucks. Get your store running and then get plug ins developed later.

I have found it interesting that many of the huge huge ecommerce stores seem to be running the yahoo store platforms. These are stores that get 800-1000 orders a day. Yahoo store must be doing something right or these stores paid big bucks to have their stores custom codes afterwards.

I just downloaded CS-Cart yesterday and am trying to migrate a store over to it. I have a 60 day trial so we will see how it goes. Not sure if I want to flip the switch so close to Xmas though.

some good cms and one click install from some good host can help you out.

Yep, I'd be starting new so need advice starting from scratch. Working with a candle manufacturer to sell all kinds of candles and diffusers(budget to very high end celebrity candles). Looking for ease of set up(I'm not a web guy), best way to manage inputting new products/info for sale (craigslist, ebay, webstore, etc..) need SEO help, and probably want to do an affiliate program with some aggressive commissions to get the ball rolling. They have manufacturing and drop ship capability all under one roof.

Also want to develop a private label program where small shops can come online and pick from a limited assortment of candles, fragrances, boxes to create their own custom line and we'd digitally print their custom private label. For salons, spas, boutique stores etc....

any thoughts are appreciated!

Regarding to Yahoo Store. It's very robust, but it's very difficult to modify their store script (RTML). I have tried when we start our own online store with Yahoo. It easily costs you $5000 to customize the store.

I checked our CS-Cart, It looks very good in terms of features, promotion handling and affiliate program. Wondering how ti works for you so far! I may switch my store from Zen-Cart to CS-Cart. Zen-Cart is free, but it lacks many features.

Are there anything wrong Interspire Shopping cart?

I haven't tried CS-CART fully but in playing with it for a few hours it looks pretty good. At $265, the price is fine too and you can demo it for 30 days.

Interspire has a few huge holes which is why I am looking for another shopping cart. It cannot do coupons and if you have products with many options you will spend way too much time configuring it. Honestly, I have no idea what their software engineers are thinking when they are designing their code. CS-Cart works well with regards to both these aspects.

Zen-Cart lacks many nice features too. CS-Cart seems to be very easy to config and customize. One thing I have not figure out is the muti-vendor shipping. It needs to calculate the total shipping cost if there is multiple shipment from different drop shipper.

The price of shopping cart isn't a problem to me. It's the features that drag me down.

Looking at CS-Cart, that looks like waht ive been looking for!

Have you decided What to do next?CommonCents ?

can anyone suggest any affordable project management web apps for a small business that also do CRM, and billing?