Comments on: Shopping Cart Review – Cube Cart

By: allscoop

allscoop — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:25:57 +0000

Greg, thanks for the fantastic review. I share many of the same feelings as you about Magento. I think there is still a promising future for Magento, but for now I’ll stick with CubeCart.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:35:20 +0000

Magento might be great software for developers, but anyone else will quickly find it’s far too difficult to use, even after it’s been installed on a server.

There are some really cool features which drew me to it in the first place, but I had no business trying to make this work. Setting up the credit card processing and UPS link for shipping is a trial and still doesn’t work after playing with it for four days. (You should only have to type-in the correct information, but according to lots of other users/developers…this isn’t the case with Magento.)

If you’re looking to test your programming skills and/or want some job security, Magento is the place to be. For those of us wanting to make money with a small to medium-sized e-commerce website, I recommend a hosted solution or maybe Cube Cart mentioned here.

I hope this “review” helps.

By: allscoop

allscoop — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:51:06 +0000

I also looked a long time at Magento, at the time it was still in beta and just felt very slow and clunky. Cube Cart has been fairly easy to customize, I have even made a few of my own custom reports and a great export tool that imports orders into PayPal multi-order shipping.

By: jim mccann

jim mccann — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:48:36 +0000

I am looking at a replacement e-commerce solution and came down to two.
Cubecart or Magento. I have evaluations for both.

I have discouted Magento as there as there is very steep learning curve and I think to customise is gomg totake far longer than Cubecart.

Bespoking is far easier with Cubecart and sites can be developed far quicker.

By: allscoop

allscoop — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:55:20 +0000

I have been very happy with Cube Cart, we are going on 9 months now on the software. I have had only one experience with support, and it was handled and fixed fairly quickly. I would have no problem recommending the software. It also should run great on hostgator. Please let me know if you have any more specific questions about CubeCart.

By: Cookie

Cookie — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:24:41 +0000

We are in the process of launching another site and are looking for an alternative to Yahoo Store, OSCommerce and ZenCart. We have a HostGator reseller account and would like to try CubeCart, since it is already installed, but want to be absolutely certain before taking the plunge. How is your CubeCart experience so far?

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By: allscoop

allscoop — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:09:39 +0000

Al, thank you for clearing that up, that is exactly the response I would hope for. Keep up the good work.

By: Alistair Brookbanks

Alistair Brookbanks — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:33:12 +0000

Oh, I forgot to mention that only two files out of thousands are encoded. These are controller files that are used to call in others. There should be no restrictions to code customisations that can be made. Since the v4 release I don’t recall any customer not being able to achieve the bespoke functionality they want.

By: Al

Al — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:30:34 +0000

Thanks for such a positive review of our product CubeCart. To address your concerns concerning the software licensing.

The company right now is profitable and going from strength to strength thank to our customers such as yourself. If we were to go bust one day (possible) we would release new files so that your cart would stay on line. We are responsible and couldn’t bear to think that our failure would impact other businesses.

Also the software license system connects to two servers each in different data centres in the US. Your store calls homes once a fortnight to validate the software license key. In the unlikely event it calls home whilst the primary software license server is down it will try the second one. For this reason it is exceptionally unlikely (touches wood) that you would get software license errors.

I hope that helps.

By: allscoop

allscoop — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:32:05 +0000

Yes, you can email me at

By: HunkyDory

HunkyDory — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:35:04 +0000

Hello,

Thanks for an interesting review. Sorry for an off-topic question, but is it possible to contact you in any way (I’d like to send an e-mail)?