E Commerce Cart | The Top 10 E Commerce Carts in 2011

August 5th, 2011


1.Volusion, with more that 100,000 customers  offers a professional looking ecommerce webstore which is designed from the ground up to be easy to use. With their choice of themes and layouts, its makes it ideal for sellers who are just starting out and for experienced sellers who want slick looking professional ecommerce website. For sellers starting out they offer a free 14 day trial with no credit card required.

Rating : 5/5
Available : Worldwide
Pros : 14 Free Trial, Easy to use, Professional looking templates, low cost pricing plans, no credit card needed.
Cons : None that I could find.
Website : www.Volusion.com

 

2 . HSTORES.com - A FREE e commerce cart website with easy to navigate web store.  Features the usual free sub domain name and free hosting with Hostgator.  No  banner advertising and the standard Google and Paypal check out integration.  SEO,  Unlimited Products  that you can sell and simple to use back end product uploads. Paid upgrade path available.

Rating : 4/5
Available : Worldwide
Pros :  No bannder ads, professional, modern store layout, Unlimited Products,paid upgrade available, free tech support
Cons :  No community forum
Website : www.HSTORES.com


 

 

 


 

3. Mal’s Ecommerce - They offer free ecommerce webstores with instant account activation. They have an impressive 145,000 web store registered so far and it is 100% ad free. The e commerce carts are simple to use and uploading products to sell is easy. Free sub-domain and hosting.  Simple Paypal and Google checkout integration,  customizable templates and cheap paid upgrade available.Very good value e commerce cart features

Rating :  4/5
Available : Worldwide
Pros :  No Ads, instant activation, low cost paid upgrade, customize templates
Cons :  Lack of store promotion,  limit on the amount of ebook downloads
Website : www.mals-e.com

 

 

 

4. Freewebstore.org - Free ecommerce shopping cart and website with instant account activation. Features free sub-domain name and  web hosting. Very fast loading and nice  flashy looking store templates.  The presentation of the free stores is excellent and the back end is easy to navigate and  upload products to sell. Paypal and Google checkout integration with paid upgrade available. Free stores feature banner advertising.

Rating : 4/5
Available : Worldwide
Pros :  Nice looking store templates,  instant activation, paid upgrade
Cons :  Banner Ads, Lack of store promotion,  limit of 15 products you can sell with free version.
Website : www.freewebstore.org

 

 

5.  1Freecart.com – Free e commerce cart and free web hosting.  Free sub domain name and easy to use store template. Appears to use the popular open source cubecart shopping cart platform.  The free version features google ads similar to vstore.ca  and no limit to the number of products that you can sell. The usual Paypal and Google checkout integration and very simple back end product upload and navigation.  Easy paid upgrade path available.

Rating :  3/5
Available : Worldwide
Pros :  Simple store layout, ideal for first time sellers, paid upgrade available
Cons :  Google Ads, No SEO store promotion, little choice of templates to use.
Website : www.1freecart.com

 

 

3. VStore.ca - They offer a ecommerce cart websites based on the open source oscommerce platform.Registered since 2004, they offer professional looking templates and east to setup and use  shopfronts. The back end administration panel is easy to navigate  and learn. Easy Paypal integration and a paid upgrade version is available.  Free sub-domain and hosting.

Rating :  5/5
Available : Worldwide
Pros : Free, easy to use, professional style, paid upgrade available
Cons : Google Ads on webstore, no enough free SEO site promotion
Website : www.vstore.ca


If you want to add your site or have any feedback on one of the above free  e commerce cart sites, please let is know.

Regards

Steve

 

Free e commerce websites webcarts | Review of free ecomerce websites

April 4th, 2011

Selling online is a great way to start a business. When you start a home business you need to keep your costs low, and a free e commerce website cart is a great way to keep costs low and keep expenditure costs to a minimum.

One of the best free  ecommerce websites is HSTORES.com. They offer a complete package – website,e commerce shopping cart,sub-domain name and professional modern ecommerce webstore all for $0.

They also do free setup and free tech support. They use Hostgator as a hosting provider, so all their free webstores are fast loading and not sluggish.

So, if  you want to sell online and keep max profits, give HSTORES.coma try.

Summary :
Pros
: Free ecommerce Cart, free sub-domain name, professional ecommerce site layout, free tech support
Cons : No community forum
Price : $0
Rating: 5 / 5

Online auction giant eBay to buy ecommerce fulfillment company   GSI Commerce Inc. (GSIC) for $2.4 billion.

March 30th, 2011

Online auction giant eBay to buy ecommerce fulfillment company   GSI Commerce Inc. (GSIC) for $2.4 billion.
This in an enormous milestone for eBay as they continue to diversify their investments and look to challenge other players like amazon. 

As 2011 continues I have know doubt eBay will continue to closely examine future acquisitions to expand their online  business interests. 

Volusion E Commerce review | Ecommerce Reviews

August 5th, 2010

Volusion Ecommerce Website Review

Founded in 1999 with over 100,000 customers, these are impressive stats for any ecommerce website. Volusion which was founded by CEO Kevin Sproles has surived the dot com boom and bust and has steadly grown to now boast 150 employees.

With offices in California and Texas, Volusion offers a professional looking ecommerce webstore which is designed from the ground up to be easy to use. With their choice of themes and layouts, its makes it ideal for sellers who are just starting out and for experienced sellers who want slick looking professional ecommerce website. For sellers starting out they offer a free 14 day trial with no credit card required, which makes refreshing change for most other “free trial ecommerce websites”.

For sellers starting out they offer a Try it Free – 14 Trial Offer with no credit card The no credit card offer makes a refreshing change for most “free trial ecommerce websites”.

They offer 24/7 live telephone tech support should you need help when starting out and feature all the standard features that most ecommerce web stores offer including – ecommerce SEO (Search Engine Optimisation), bulk upload of your products that you are selling, easy to navigate webstore, simple back end interface and the PCI website security encryption.

Rating :  5/5
Available : Worldwide
Pros : 14 Free Trial,  Easy to use, Professional looking templates, low cost pricing plans, no credit card needed.
Cons : Limit of  25 products to sell on the entry level package.
Website : www.Volusion.com

Ecommerce – The $250 Billion Dollar Industry

August 3rd, 2010

Wow, I knew ecommerce was a big industry but I didn’t realise just how big!
Forrester Research have published a report  which predicts that online retail sales will continue to grow and by 2014 online sales and ecommerce are estimated to reach $248 Billion dollars!. These figures are for US and does not include online sales for Europe, Japan and the rest of the world.

Graph data courtesy techcrunch.com

With online retail and ecommerce cart sales at US  $155 Billion dollars in 2009 and increasing steady year on year the future looks bright for ecommerce. So as the world emerges from the GFC and  with ecommerce sales  climbing, now has never been a better time for would be entrepreneurs to enter the ecommerce market. I will soon be publishing a series of free independent ecommerce ebooks that will be available for free download form this website soon.. so stay tuned.

Regards

Steve

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”

Henry Ford

Free Website Shopping Cart Review

July 28th, 2010

E-commerce  in 2010 is big business with more and more businesses selling goods via e commerce cart software and websites .  According  to Forrester Forecast,  Online Retail Sales Will Grow To $250 Billion By 2014!

Whilst researching the web recently I came across a very nice and and professional e-ecommerce website called Big Commerce.

They have over 50,00 customers and have received very good reviews in the media. Their list of store features is impressive including : an easy to use online web control panel (backend store setup and maintenance), a choice of 96 professional online templates for you to choose from, integrated e-commerce SEO (Search engine optimisation), compatibale with iphone,ipad and smartphones, unlimited phone and email suppport and a very simple and easy to use interface so you don’t need to be a computer nerd to use it!

With pricing starting from $25 per month and a a free 15 day trial, this ecommerce site offers a very professional looking e commerce  cart webstore.

Try Big Commerce FREE for 15 days! See why it’s the best way to sell online!

Regards

Steve