I have been offered cubecart for free as a favour by a member of the dropship forum. Someone else has offered me any cart I want for £20.

Spoilt for choice - I have no experience (yet) of shopping carts which is basically why I am here.

So- has anyone else used cubecart?

Yes, used cubecart for short time until discovered zencart.
Would not return to cubecart now.
Just wondering why you are being offered carts for £20.00
when many are free anyway i.e. cubecart, oscommerce,
zencart. Maybe they will be installing cart of your choice
for that price

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What are they offering you for the £20? Just the S/W? Installation or hosting?

I haven't used CubeCart so I can't comment on how it matches up to other packages. The current version costs $129.95 so I suspect you are being offered the older v3 which is free with branding.

You won't get "any" shopping cart for £20 as the commercial ones tend to cost considerably more than this. If you are offered them for this price, then they're likely to be unregistered and therefore illegal.

If you are looking for a free cart then ZenCart would be your best choice. I know the dropshipping forum you're on and know that they are very pro OSC rather than Zen, this is partly because their resident dropshipper supplies pre-populated OSC carts so quite a few of their regular members use it. With OSC you need to edit the php files by hand just to do simple things such as reordering the contents of the side columns, with zen you can do this and more from the admin control panel.

If you want to to try one of the commercial packages then have a look at what OpenMind (Phil) has to offer. Just click his sig link or the banner on the top RHS of this site when it appears (Not a PPC link).

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Lawrence

Cheers Lawerence

I think the question you need to ask yourself sunnycreatives is is the software I've been offered going to do the job for me? Will it satisfy all the requirements for my store, will it offer enough payment options, before you start building you've got to have a good solid foundation.

Just start by writing down a list of features that you want to have and then match the eCommerce software choice to that list..

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Hi Thanks guys - the cubecart was recommended by someone who has experience of it - I have no idea how to install a cart so the £20 was for the installation not the free cart.

I have my firt problem with cubecart with in half an hour of using it. I couldnt use their editor to change the message on the home page.

When I clicked the button to say to save the text this is what came up

"Could not open file of '/home/(username edited)/public_html/language/en/home.inc.php' for writing. Try changing the CHMOD value to 0777. Remember to set it back to 0644 afterwards!"

What an earth does that mean? I set the site for English not gobbledeegook and now my customers will see a cubecart message instead of a message from me!!!

Do you have a file manager for your hosting account?
If so, you can change the file permissions with that.
If not, you fill need to use an FTP client to do it.

What that message means is that the file is set to read only on the server and the software cannot alter it. Changing it to "777" makes it writable by all. Changing it back to "644" makes it unwritable.

CHMOD is a Linux/BSD/Unix command for changing file permissions. You don't need to worry about this as your file manager or FTP client will do it for you.

If your hosting doesn't have a file manager and you don't have an FTP client then the easiest way to do it would be to ask the person who installed it for you. It only takes seconds to do so he shouldn't charge you for it.

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Lawrence

Hi Lawrence

I just got back here and had posted the same question on the dropship forum and the guy who installed the cart replied saying he had already fixed it for me.

Apart from that scary message - well it totally flummoxed me - I have had no problems with the cubecart installation so the store is coming along nicely - just spoilt for choice as to what to sell there.

I have asked my son to test the site as a buyer for me but I wont work on that until I have done some serious populating of the site.

Hey guys im pretty experienced with CubeCart if anyone needs help pm me and Ill gladly help you guys out.

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