I've been asked to build a fairly small ecommerce site for a client and just wondered if anybody had any recommendations? The free options on my reseller hosting account are zen cart, os commerce, Cube Cart and Agora. I had a look at zen cart, but it didn't seem that easy to use. I believe it's a spin off of os commerce reading the web about it, so I haven't looked at that yet. Just installed Cube Cart and it seems fairly basic and might do what I want, though the basic design doesn't look that slick, so it's going to be a case of how customisable it is visually.

I've heard that Magento is pretty good, but as I'd be using the open source version, I don't know how easy it is for a beginner to use as I wouldn't be paying for the support.

Just wondered if anybody had any experience/recommendations really.

I've heard lots of good things about Magento, too, but mostly from people who know about interwebz-y stuff so I'm not sure how user-friendly it is. Have a play and see what you can get done in an hour? I'd do that with anything that's up for serious consideration.

Disclaimer: I know a few people who have set up a Magento Dev company so they're obviously biassed, but lots of people seem to like it.

Well, it seems pretty good, so I may well give it a shot.

Currently having a play with CubeCart and that seems to be pretty good so far.

I find that Virtuemart is great and does everything I need (especially as it'll link in to joomla)

http://virtuemart.net/

That looks interesting. I'll see if it stands alone as I don't use joomla. It's something I ought to learn really, but so far I've found CMS made simple has fitted my needs so far.

I heard this morning from a friend that os commerce is rubbish.

I'm about to build a friend's website (just as an exercise and hopefully one he'll actually use) using joomla.

Messed around a bit with it in the past. From what I've seen the basics are fairly basic but you can dig down into the more advaced stuff also.

In the end I've gone for cubecart 4 which is about a hundred quid. Seems good enough for my needs without having to spend ages learning new stuff!

Damn should have read the post properly, I thought it had to run on joomla!