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[Donna Marie Vincent]

Magento has a very steep learning curve, and Magento programmers are very costly. The time it takes to maintain these "free" solutions for such a large store will probably cost more than the hosted solutions. 

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On Jul 2, 2011, at 12:58 PM, "Herbert M. Tucker" <htucker at covenanttek.com> wrote:

> Hi Norman and Donna,
> Thanks for helping out. This is a big decision and I'm looking to get as
> much info to make as wise a decision as I can.
> @ Norman:  I've did a fairly quick look at the Magento site and their
> version comparison table doesn't really tell me what their community version
> does have but rather what it doesn't in comparison with their licensed
> products, which isn't a viable option for this project (seems like all
> projects anymore are done on the cheap). 
> Does the community version of Magento provide all the features listed at
> http://www.magentocommerce.com/product/features ?
> 
> @ Donna: I'll check those solutions out. I looked at the Adobe store front
> for this client but the fee structure wasn't very appealing to him.
> 
> Godspeed!
> Herb
> 
> Herbert M. Tucker
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 15:56:18 -0400
> From: Norman O'Neil <norman at enorm2.com>
> To: "NYPHP SIG: Joomla" <joomla at lists.nyphp.org>
> Subject: Re: [joomla] Ecommerce cart recommendations?
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> Magento is by far a more complete solution for that many items. You can get
> away with zen-cart or oscommerce, but you will be modifying the heck out of
> it to get to where magento starts. 
> 
> 
> Norman O'Neil
> eNorm
> P.O. Box 6592
> Portsmouth, NH 03802- 6592
> 603.828.1031
> http://www.enorm2.com
> 
> On Jun 30, 2011, at 6:11 PM, Herbert M. Tucker wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>> I've been working with VirtueMart on a project and running into some 
>> limitations. I was wondering if anybody has experience with any of the 
>> alternative carts such as the OpenCart ports like JHShop or JooCart? 
>> redShop looks interesting too but expensive.
>> This project has 14,000 items, multiple inventory locations and ships 
>> internationally and I obviously need a robust cart to make this fly.
>> Any comments or suggestions or experiences you've had with the various 
>> carts would be greatly appreciated.
>> Thanks!
>> Herb
>> 
>> Herbert M. Tucker
>> Principal
>> Covenant Technical Services, Inc.
>> P: 732-497-0326
>> C: 848-218-9172
>> F: 732-497-0326
>> E: htucker at covenanttek.com
>> W: www.covenanttek.com
>> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 16:32:19 -0400
> From: Donna Marie Vincent <donnamarievincent at yahoo.com>
> To: "NYPHP SIG: Joomla" <joomla at lists.nyphp.org>
> Subject: Re: [joomla] Ecommerce cart recommendations?
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> For the money/time you spend configuring and maintaining, I would use a
> hosted solution like Ecwid or Big Commerce. RocketTheme has an Ecwid
> template 
> 
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