http://feedgrowth.com/idea-categories/e-commerce/recap-from-our-top-ten-e-commerce-platforms-and-tools-meetup/ Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:41:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://feedgrowth.com/idea-categories/e-commerce/recap-from-our-top-ten-e-commerce-platforms-and-tools-meetup/comment-page-1/#comment-33327 JR Chew Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:49:39 +0000 http://feedgrowth.com/?p=1695#comment-33327 Another drawback for Prestashop... It doesn't have any kind of related product / up sell capabilities at this point in time. http://feedgrowth.com/idea-categories/e-commerce/recap-from-our-top-ten-e-commerce-platforms-and-tools-meetup/comment-page-1/#comment-15632 Nic Maritz Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:08:57 +0000 http://feedgrowth.com/?p=1695#comment-15632 I have been working with Joomla and VirtueMart for about 2 years it has taken a while but VirtueMart has come out to be a winner it is robust and takes care with integration to many Gateway's and did I mention that it is free open source.This is a great advantage and there is currently more that 124 VirtueMart extensions some is free and some commercial covering all possible area's that is used in a modern Shopping Cart.I don't entirety agree with the Drawbacks: levels of categories with the new release of VirtueMart one can create unlimited sub categories. http://feedgrowth.com/idea-categories/e-commerce/recap-from-our-top-ten-e-commerce-platforms-and-tools-meetup/comment-page-1/#comment-14941 Joe Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:29:52 +0000 http://feedgrowth.com/?p=1695#comment-14941 -I seem to be playing devil's advocate tonight. -I realize you can't possibly cover every product and situation out there, but this article just feels like it misses the mark. I'm surprised you didn't separate smallbiz/homebiz from the rest of the crowd, as low-cost & simple is absolutely a different market segment from the rest of the crowd, as is quantity of sales versus quality of product - an artist who outputs two pieces a month or a vintage clothier with an incoming truckload a week. Then there's merchant accounts (and if you're not the very smallest or very biggest of players, why a paypal business account is not for you). I could top ten products by types of sellers alone. -I'm also surprised to not see Yahoo, Amazon (proper) and eBay. -On the border of Cobb County, almost in Austell, is a small warehouse split into three sections. You'd never know it was there if you weren't looking for it. I believe this warehouse predates the bicentennial, but the businesses are proof that e-commerce is alive and well in smallbiz. -In the first space is an office and storage for cosmetic sales, Mary Kay or Avon, but the second and third are strictly dedicated to online retail - no brick and mortar store involved. One is a used book reseller that is using advanced ISBN scanning to market around a thousand books a day to Amazon. The margin per product is small but the database backend streamlines the process and minimizes cost - using Amazon virtually eliminates the need for marketing; the customers come to them. The last space contains a vintage magazine reseller who I believe was one of the first to sign up for a Yahoo storefront. Elsewhere in Atlanta there's a furniture company that generated between $15 and $30 thousand a month in revenue from eBay alone in 2007-2008. And these are just the companies I've seen for myself. -Finally there's Wordpress, with a variety of options, all free (as in beer). The big player here is the WP e-commerce plugin, which is free to start but can be upgraded as your sales grow. All you need is a basic hosting account and a free Paypal business account. -I hope you'll consider posts on merchant accounts and payment processors and micropayments in the future. In the world of ecom, I don't think there's any water more murky.