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Open-Source Shopping Cart Software

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Should I consider open-source shopping cart software?

Open-Source Shopping Cart Software

Open-source shopping cart software offers some distinct advantges and disadvantages as an overall shopping cart software solution. Big advantage: It's free. Another big advantage: Open-source shopping cart software is almost always highly customizable, using familiar programming languages like PHP and ASP. The disadvantges? Well, you or someone who works for you needs to know PHP or ASP to install and customize the open-source shopping cart software. You need to have access to your server and the IT support to install and manage the shopping cart software. Open-source software can absolutely be the perfect shopping cart software solution if you have the time, energy and money to make the software do what you want it to do. Otherwise, it might not be the answer.

   

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